Message from Argonne Director Robert Rosner

Dear Friends,

As a multipurpose laboratory, Argonne is committed to addressing the many challenges that face our nation: energy, the environment, and national security. To do this, we depend on our group of state-of-the-art user facilities that draw scientists from around the world to conduct groundbreaking research across a wide variety of disciplines.

On any given day, Argonne scientists and their colleagues employ these facilities to discover and develop new materials, find new ways to create and store energy, enhance our national security and address the economic, environmental and climatological questions that will shape this country in the next century

The previous issue of Argonne Now focused on Argonne's new high-performance computing facilities, which have directly benefited research in all of these areas. This issue takes a similar tack; rather than focus on one avenue of study, the following four stories illustrate how Argonne researchers and their colleagues from the worlds of academia and industry employ the hard X-rays provided by the Advanced Photon Source for a myriad of different studies that strive to address the crises of today and that will shape our lives in the decades to come.

I would like to take this opportunity to again thank the Department of Energy and all of our many sponsors for providing the means and resources that allow us to carry out this vital research.

Thank you,

Robert Rosner
Director
Argonne National Laboratory