Research 

(Last published date: 17/09/2009)
NMI develops measurement techniques to assist in the measurement of air and structure born sound and vibration, and develops and implements equipment to provide the highest possible accuracy in a calibration facility.

(Last published date: 17/09/2009)
NMI supports comparable and traceable biological measurement through the development of validated biomeasurement methods, suitable reference materials, method acceptability criteria and measurement uncertainty.

(Last published date: 17/09/2009)
NMI continually develops new reference methods for chemical measurements and characterises reference materials to act as calibration standards.

(Last published date: 17/09/2009)
Doping control in competitive sport protects the health, legal and ethical rights of athletes. The use of banned drugs in sports is becoming increasingly sophisticated and the need to counter this provides a stimulus for ground-breaking analytical research.

(Last published date: 17/09/2009)
Pollutants (such as persistent organic pollutants) are widely distributed throughout the environment. Innovative methods of pollutant analysis and novel sampling techniques are current areas of research.

(Last published date: 17/09/2009)
NMI has extensive expertise in analytical method development and validation from a wide range of food matrices and has an on-going research program to improve the accuracy, comparability and traceability of both chemical and biological measurements.

(Last published date: 17/09/2009)
Research is underway to develop improved resistance standards based on the the quantum Hall effect at ac, to improve the calibration chain relating resistance to capacitance, and to provide 1 ohm standard resistors of exceptional electrical stability.

(Last published date: 17/09/2009)
Research activities are being undertaken to develop improved laser wavelength standards and to provide traceability for coordinate measuring machines.

(Last published date: 17/09/2009)
Research is being undertaken to develop improved standards for comparing voltage at dc and ac, to develop novel current shunts for comparing resistance at dc and ac, to establish a new standard for power and energy at mains power frequency, and to upgrade Australia's standard of voltage.

(Last published date: 17/09/2009)
Research supports the measurement of density, flow, force, hygrometry, mass, pressure, viscometry and volume.

(Last published date: 10/03/2010)
NMI develops measurement infrastructure, expertise and standards for nanotechnology.

(Last published date: 17/09/2009)
Recent research has concentrated on establishing a cryogenic radiometer as the Australian standard for the candela.

(Last published date: 17/09/2009)
Current research is focussed on high-voltage measurement systems, high-voltage insulation, impulse voltage measurement systems and applied dielectrics.

(Last published date: 17/09/2009)
Research is being undertaken to to improve the accuracy and dissemination of standards for electrical quantities at radio and microwave frequencies.

(Last published date: 17/09/2009)
Recent research has been directed towards improving the accuracy of the temperature scale at high temperatures, developing thermocouples with greater accuracy at high temperatures and investigating the use of thermoluminescence to measure high temperatures.

(Last published date: 17/09/2009)
NMI is developing improved microwave frequency standards based on trapped ions, diode lasers, GPS time-transfer receivers and two-way satellite time transfer.