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# Materials

## Overview

Plastics, carbon nanotubes, high-strength alloys, artificial bone and joint replacements are just some of the emerging materials for which NIST develops testbeds, defines benchmarks, and develops formability measurements and models.

## Featured Content

Center for Hierarchical Materials Design

Center for Automotive Lightweighting

## Materials Topics

                    Ceramics
Composites
Concrete / cement
Materials characterization
Metals
Modeling & computational material science
Polymers
Superconductors

## The Research

## Projects & Programs

### JARVIS-ML

### Optical and Optoelectronic Materials Characterization

### Nano-Chemical Imaging and -Spectroscopy (IR, nIR, VIS)

### Facilitating the Adoption of the FAIR Digital Object Framework in Material Science

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###   Materials by Design

Every “thing” is made of materials — roads, engines and medical devices, to name just a few examples. For centuries, inventing and developing new materials for industrial applications took long amounts of time and tremendous amounts of trial and error. Speeding up that process could save time and money and spur a great deal of innovation across many sectors of the economy. Read about how NIST's Materials Genome Initiative plans to do just that.

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## News

### How the JFK Assassination Bullets Were Digitally Preserved at NIST

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### Biden-Harris Administration Announces Preliminary Terms with GlobalFoundries to Strengthen Domestic Legacy Chip Supply for U.S. Auto and Defense Industries

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### Scientists Observe Long-Predicted Superconductor Property Using a Quantum Simulator

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### Microwave Detectors and Multiplexing: NIST Researchers Help Astronomers Examine the Early Universe

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