Speakers Bureau: Argonne Works with Business

Speaking topics related to outside use of Argonne's research activities and the practical applications of Argonne 's capabilities and findings include:

Putting Technology to Work: Stories of Technology Transfer – The practical side of science turns discoveries into products that benefit people. Technology transfer is one of Argonne 's major activities.

Small Businesses – Organizations don't have to be on one of Fortune's lists to work with Argonne . Partners come from all over the world and all manner of scientific disciplines.

• Using Argonne 's Science. Find out about discoveries that will help your business.
• Become an Argonne Supplier.

User Research Facilities – Even the best endowed universities and wealthiest companies can't afford to build all the equipment they need. That's where cutting edge, one-of-a-kind instrumentation found at Argonne and the Department of Energy's other national laboratories comes in.

• Advanced Photon Source (APS) – The APS, a ring large enough to encircle a baseball field, is the nation's most brilliant X-ray machine. It reveals intricate, otherwise invisible, detail to scientists studying a wide range of questions, from the structure of the human cold virus to stress and strain on turbine blades to the authenticity of antiquities.
• Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator System (ATLAS) – Beams of charged particles drawn from any element let researchers explore the nature of matter.
• Intense Pulsed Neutron Source (IPNS) – One of the world's most productive research facilities, IPNS provides the nation's most reliable source of neutrons for condensed-matter physics, the study of atomic arrangements and motions in liquids and solids.

Emergent Technologies – Areas of science that are yielding practical results.

• Ceramic Membranes – A tool for separating gases, useful, among other places, in the petrochemical industry.
• Nano technology – Extraordinarily small particles behave in ways that open all kinds of possibilities – everything from frictionless bearings to more powerful computer memory to non-invasive healthcare devices.

For more information or to request speakers, please contact the

Argonne Community Relations Office
630/252-5562
speakers@anl.gov

Please note: Speakers are engaged full-time at Argonne, so please give us at least three-week's notice before your event.