An Assessment of the Material Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Fiscal Year 2023 (2023) / Chapter Skim
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8 Materials Science and Engineering Division
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The division leads or collaborates with internal and external stakeholders on diverse programs important to the innovation and competitiveness of the nation's manufacturing. A few notable programs include the Center for Hierarchical Materials Design, Center for Theoretical and Computational Materials Science, NIST Center for Automotive Lightweighting, and Additive Manufacturing Benchmarks.
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The division leads a NIST-wide effort on additive manufacturing benchmarking to create a comprehensive benchmark database to validate numerical models over the full range of additive manufacturing processes. As with other NIST programs, the division has engaged key external and internal stakeholders in advanced manufacturing to maximize its impact.
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The current focus is on providing the industry with standard reference materials for this measurement technology. This program's collaborators encompass semiconductor industry giants, including those who produce electronics products and those who create materials, equipment, process lines, and characterization tools for manufacturing electronics products.
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For example, its researchers designed a new printable die-cast steel to enable Tesla Gigacasting and has transferred computational tools and data management approaches to major companies such as Intel and 3M. The center's researchers have also pioneered tools for the inverse design of sustainable plastics and nontoxic additives -- tools that are highly sought after by industrial partners such as 3M, PPG, Solvay, and Apple in their efforts to transition into sustainable, fully recoverable materials cycles of use and reuse.
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The Additive Manufacturing Benchmarking program received 138 submissions from the additive manufacturing modeling community and gave out 41 awards based on a set of predetermined model quality metrics. One data-related challenge in this program is that data collection, storage, analysis, and movement are handled by multiple platforms and are fragmented.
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Given the extensive Materials Science and Engineering Division relationships with industrial partners that were apparent during the assessment, the division would be advised to consider working with their industry partners to develop laboratory safety initiatives and programs to build a safety culture that aims for continuous improvement. EFFECTIVENESS OF DISSEMINATION EFFORTS The Materials Science and Engineering Division has a track record of engaging key stakeholders, including major industry players, for broad dissemination of knowledge and standards, to identify pressing national challenges, to formulate industry roadmaps, and to establish collaboration strategies.
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2023. Technical Assessment of the Capital Facility Needs of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
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