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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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3 Applied Chemicals and Materials Division
Pages 16-22

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From page 16...
... The mix of technical activities is quite broad in topics and consists of a strong mix of ongoing work in NIST's traditional role of providing standard reference materials and standard reference data to industry and other external customers combined with new areas of high-impact research and development of new metrology science. Here are a few highlighted examples, starting with the work on standard reference materials and data.
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From page 17...
... Second, division staff discovered a novel fatigue-resistant additive manufacturing titanium microstructure and developed an inexpensive process control technique to significantly improve fatigue performance, which will enable that alloy to be used in medical device applications, such as hip replacements. Opportunities and Challenges The Fluid Characterization Group has undergone a rather large change in personnel since the FY 2020 review, losing 7 staff and adding 2 new permanent staff and 3 term staff.
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From page 18...
... Perhaps the biggest challenge that the Applied Chemicals and Materials Division faces is how to continue support for their legacy work in light of the new opportunities arising from the CHIPS Act and the recent development of new materials for meeting the challenges of global climate change. As noted elsewhere, salary costs at NIST are growing about twice as fast as their base funding, requiring them to find new funding just to keep even.
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From page 19...
... ; development of a novel additive manufacturing microstructure for critical fatigue applications than enables additive-manufactured titanium alloys to be used in hip-replacement implants; and an invented measurement approach for in situ mechanical measurement for voxel-scale bioprinting and additive manufacturing. Finally, members of the Applied Chemicals and Materials Division have received important awards from NIST for their work on creating a digital verification program for Charpy standards and from the Department of Commerce for increasing cardiac device reliability through improved measurements and standards.
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From page 20...
... The disparity between funding growth and salary growth means that increased funding from outside projects is required to just maintain the division's budget situation, which has the potential to adversely affect both program development and maintaining standards and the ability of the division to move into new areas of research to better meet future industrial needs. The panel noted that experienced, and more expensive, PhD-level scientists are involved in many routine-seeming tasks related to ongoing activities such as the production of standard reference materials and data sets.
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From page 21...
... Currently there were 21 standard reference material and reference material activities and 6 standard reference data activities in the division. There are several notable examples of programs driven by stakeholder needs, most notably the Charpy Impact Machine Verification Program and the Thermophysical Properties of Fluids Group.
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From page 22...
... Opportunities and Challenges While the Applied Chemicals and Materials Division has created significant impact with key standard reference data and standard reference materials, it needs to, as much as feasible, increase revenues from those products so it can better fund these activities, which would enable the division to explore both new solutions to its ongoing work and new programs focused on the changing needs for alternative materials. REFERENCE Bazyleva, A., J
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Key Terms

  • applied chemicals
  • standard reference
  • additive manufacturing
  • reference materials
  • reference data

  • charpy impact
  • atom probe
  • extreme ultraviolet
  • probe tomography
  • verification program

  • reference material
  • photopolymer additive
  • nuclear magnetic
  • machine verification
  • ultraviolet atom

  • ongoing work
  • chips act
  • reference fluid
  • nist standard
  • properties standard

  • division personnel
  • material measurement
  • property data
  • impact machine
  • impact test

  • thermophysical properties
  • standards committees
  • material transfer
  • thermochemical property
  • thermophysical property


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