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October 02, 2014

World's smallest reference material is big plus for nanotechnology
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 26, 2014
If it's true that good things come in small packages, then the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can now make anyone working with nanoparticles very happy. NIST recently issued Reference Material (RM) 8027, the smallest known reference material ever created for validating measurements of these man-made, ultrafine particles between 1 and 100 nanometers (billionths of a meter) in size. RM 8027 consists of five hermetically sealed ampoules containing one milliliter of silicon nano ... read more

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