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An Assessment of Selected Divisions of the Physical Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology Fiscal Year 2021 (2021) / Chapter Skim
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4 Microsystems and Nanotechnology Division
Pages 21-23

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... For example, the point was made that the transitioning of calibration tools to the field typically involves multiple steps, with each step introducing compounding errors. Therefore, nanoscale fabrication and measurement provide a direct way of improving commercial calibration tools by greatly reducing the uncertainty in the root calibration.
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From page 22...
... DNA nanotechnology offers an ability to design biological structures using well-defined rules that can create both novel materials and reproducible complex structures that can be used as transporters in biological systems and as precision standards. The team researching microphysiological systems is bringing all of the above technologies together in a major effort to put a "body on a chip," which consists of a number of interconnected modules that have tissue cultures of various organs (e.g., liver and bone marrow)
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From page 23...
... These interchanges occasionally yield permanent appointments at NIST. RECOMMENDATION: The Microsystems and Nanotechnology Division should perform a forward-thinking analysis to address the concerns about maintaining expensive processing systems at state-of-the-art levels.
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