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Equipment Hardness Standardization:  Rockwell, Vickers, Knoop Materials Advances in X-ray Powder Diffraction Quantitative Analysis SRMs Ballistic Resistance of Polymeric Materials Carbon Nanotube Processing Characterization of Porous Low-k Dielectric Constant Thin Films Chemistry and Structure of Nanomaterials Combinatorial Adhesion and Mechanical Properties:  Axisymmetric Adhesion Testing Combinatorial Adhesion and Mechanical Properties:  Innovation Approaches to Peel Tests Combinatorial Methods for Rapid Screening of Biomaterials Combinatorial/Phase Diagram Approach for Metallization to Wide-Band-Gap Semiconductors Combinatorial Tools for Materials Science Data, Reference Materials, and Related Measurement Methods Delivering Data and Standard Test Methods for Sheet Metal Forming Electrical Properties of On-Chip Interconnections Frangible Bullets and Soft Body Armor Gradient Reference Specimens for Advanced Scanned Probe Microscopy Grand Challenges in Nanomagnetics: High Coercivity FePt Alloys for Future Perpendicular Magnetic Data Storage Hardness Standardization:  Rockwell, Vickers, Knoop Lead-Free Solders and Solderability Lead-Free Surface Finishes:  Sn Whisker Growth Mechanical Behavior of Biological Materials Mechanical Metrology for Small-Scale Structure Metrology and Standards for Optoelectronic Materials Metrology for Nanoscale Properties Micrometer-Scale Reliability Microstructural Origins of Surface Roughening and Strain Localizations Nanoimprint Lithography Nanoindentation Methods and Standards Nanomagnetodynamics Nanostructure Fabrication Processes:  Patterned Electrodeposition by Surfactant-Mediated Growth Nanostructure Fabrication Processes:  Thin Film Stress Measurements Nanotribology and Surface Properties NIST Combinatorial Methods Center (NCMC) Novel Magnetic Materials for Sensors and Ultra-High Density Data Storage On-Chip Interconnects: Extending Performance of Sub-100nm Lines Organic Electronics Phase Equilibria and Properties of Dielectric 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