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bullet Directed Assembly of Functional Materials and Devices Workshop NEW!!
 

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bullet Profiling the Photoresist-Liquid Interface: Fundamentals for Immersion Lithography and Polymer Dissolution  
bullet  Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS) for In-Situ Chemical Imaging of Tissue Engineering Constructs   
bullet  Extraordinary Transport Properties of Nanotube/Polymer Nanocomposites
bullet  Polymer Library Fabrication Techniques using Microfluidic Technology  
bullet High-Throughput Measurement of Interfacial Tension  
bullet  MALDI-MS Interlaboratory Comparison of Polymer Mixtures   
bullet Dielectric Metrology and Test Methods Supporting Embedded Passive Device Technology  
 
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The Polymers Division includes six research groups; Projects in these programs are described below. NEW!!
 
bullet  Characterization and Measurement Group
Test method Development; Standard Reference Materials; Database
 
bullet  Electronics Materials Group
Low k dielectrics; High frequency permittivity measurement; Lithographic polymer
 
bullet  Biomaterials Group
Tissue engineering, Biocompatibility, Dental restorative materials
 
bullet  Nanostructured Materials Group
Nanoimprinting, Defects in nanoscale materials, Nanoscale thermal management
 
bullet  Processing Group
In-situ measurements of flow, Extrusion instabilities, Orientation and temperature measurement.
 
bullet  Combinatorial Methods Group
Combinatorial methods, Polymer properties measurements, Polymer films and coatings
 
 
Out from under the Radar--Polymers Division

Out from under the Radar

bullet  Counterion and Polyelectrolyte Dynamics as viewed by Neutron Spin Echo Spectroscopy
bullet  Self-Organization of Supramolecular Helical Dendrimers into Complex Electronic Materials
 

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Date created: 02/2001
Last updated: 07/26/07
 
 

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Polymers News:
bullet   MSEL Research on Nanoimprint Lithography Highlighted by ACS Nano  
 
bullet   MSEL Researchers Demonstrate Technique for Characterizing Line Edge and Line Width Roughness in Lithographic Patterns  
 
bullet   MSEL and PL Host 3rd NASA NIST Workshop on Carbon Nanotube Measurements  
 
bullet   MSEL Researchers Provide Insight into Photolithographic Materials with Nanoscale Measurements of the Reaction-Diffusion Front  
 
bullet   MSEL Measures Directed-Assembly of Ferromagnetic Nanoparticles  
 
bullet   Fossilized Liquid Assembly: Nanomaterials Research Tool  
 
bullet   MSEL Develops Combinatorial Test of Surface Chemical Heterogeneity  
 
bullet   MSEL Co-Organizes the First International Symposium on Polymer Materials Science in Kyoto, Japan  
 
bullet   MSEL Receives Recognition at the Polymers West Gordon Research Conference  
 
bullet   MSEL Hosts 11th NIST Combinatorial Methods Center Industry Workshop  
 
bullet   MSEL Shows a Strong Presence at 2007 American Society for Mass Spectrometry Meeting  
 
bullet   NCMC Wins Department of Commerce Silver Medal  
 
bullet   MSEL Researchers Determine Acoustic Modes and Elastic Properties in Polymeric Nanostructures  
 
bullet   MSEL Researchers Provide A New View of Organic Electronic Devices  
 
 
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polymers@nist.gov
Polymers Division
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Building 224, Room A309
Gaithersburg, MD 20899 Tel: (301) 975-6762
Fax: (301) 975-4252
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