NIST — Material Measurement Laboratory
U.S. reference data and standards for materials.
www.nist.gov
Publications
Publications & outputs
Reports, datasets, and frameworks from our labs and computational groups.
2017 · Report
Design for Recovery
Principles for designing composites that can be recycled at end of life.
2019 · Technical report
Safer Electrolytes for Grid Storage
A survey of non-flammable electrolyte chemistries for stationary storage.
2022 · Dataset
Open Coatings Characterization Set
Documented characterization data for a family of protective coatings.
2023 · Framework
Embodied Carbon in Material Choice
A method for comparing embodied carbon across candidate materials.
2025 · Brief
Machine Learning for Material Screening
How informatics narrows large candidate spaces before lab work.
2026 · Research brief
Circular Batteries
Pathways toward recyclable and recoverable battery materials.
Further reading & data sources
Independent resources and open datasets relevant to our work.
The Materials Project
Open database of computed materials properties.
materialsproject.org
Materials Research Society
Scholarly society for materials research.
www.mrs.org
arXiv — Materials Science
Open preprints in materials science.
arxiv.org
NREL
Research on energy materials and systems.
www.nrel.gov
Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Resources on circular-economy design.
www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org
These are independent, third-party resources provided for context and further reading. Links do not imply any affiliation, partnership, or endorsement.