Articles tagged with: nist
Therapeutic nanoparticles give new meaning to sugar-coating medicine
A research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology to study sugar-coated nanoparticles for use as cancer therapy has discovered a possible delicate balancing act that makes the particles more effectively than conventional thinking says they should be. Like the individuals in the crowd while respecting the personal space of others work because […]
Nano-ruler sets very small marks
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published a new ruler, and even for an organization that routinely deals in superlatives, set some records. Designed to be best available commercially “measuring rule” to the nano world, the new measuring tool – a calibration standard X-ray diffraction – with uncertainties below a femtometer. That’s 0.000 […]
