Overview
The Division provides the tools for the Nation’s measurement
communities to enhance U.S. industry’s productivity and competitiveness,
assure equity in trade, and improve public health, safety, environmental quality,
and national security. We perform research to:
- determine the chemistry and physics of surfaces, interfaces,
particles, and bulk materials, and their interactions with a broad spectrum
of species including electrons, photons, ions, atoms, and molecules;
- determine the chemical and isotopic composition, morphology,
crystallography, and electronic structure at scales ranging from millimeters
to nanometers;
- determine the energetics, kinetics, mechanisms, and effects
of processes occurring on solid surfaces as well as within materials and devices;
- study the total chemical measurement process as well
as source apportionment in atmospheric chemistry using advanced isotope metrology
and chemometrics; and
- develop and certify key Standard Reference Materials
and Standard Reference Data.
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Last Updated
March 5, 2002
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Web Contact
micro@nist.gov