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An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory Fiscal Year 2008 (2008) / Chapter Skim
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Programs Funded Under the America COMPETES Act
Pages 23-26

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... The Synchrotron Methods Group within the Ceramics Division focuses on three important technical areas: the development of synchrotron measurement methods, material structural determination using synchrotron measurements, and synchrotron beam-line operations at the National Synchrotron Light Source, a DOE national user facility at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. NIST's Synchrotron Methods Group operates three beam lines (experiment stations)
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... • Owing to the unexpected flat funding under the America COMPETES Act in 2008, two projects were put on hold: the Synchrotron Enhanced Scanning Tunneling Microscopy project and the Modernized High-Resolution Diffraction Beamline project. An exciting and very timely development is the DOE announcement that a new, billiondollar beam line -- NSLS II -- will be built on the Brookhaven site, with groundbreaking in 2009 and occupancy starting in 2012.
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From page 25...
... The purpose is to ascertain whether, and at what pressures, existing gas or petroleum pipelines in the United States could be used for shipping hydrogen around the country in preparation for a possible hydrogen fuel economy. This is an essential material property measurement activity for which the Materials Reliability Division is well equipped based on its past and present experience in bulk material property mechanical testing and pipeline testing.
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From page 26...
... chemical information from the cells to characterize their response to different materials as well as determine differences in spatial heterogeneities between normal and diseased cells. The Bioimaging Program built the first broadband CARS instrument in 2004, has more recently developed time-resolved detection methods to reduce nonresonant background, and has developed algorithms for faster and flexible spectral recovery.
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