Research Facilities
Tools and expertise to drive manufacturing innovation
Argonne National Laboratory is home to some of the world’s most innovative manufacturing research facilities. Taken together with the laboratory’s broad diversity of research disciplines, the Materials Manufacturing Innovation Center offers access to expertise and capabilities found together only at Argonne.
Materials Engineering Research Facility
Argonne’s Materials Engineering Research Facility (MERF) is an integral part of the laboratory’s Materials Manufacturing Innovation Center, as well as a user facility.
Advanced Photon Source
The Advanced Photon Source (APS) provides bright, high-energy storage ring-generated x-ray beams for research in almost all scientific disciplines.
Argonne Leadership Computing Facility
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) provides access to leadership-class supercomputing capabilities and a team of expert computational scientists.
Center for Nanoscale Materials
The Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) is a premier user facility providing expertise, instrumentation and infrastructure for interdisciplinary nanoscience and nanotechnology research.
High-Throughput Research Laboratory
Argonne’s High-Throughput Research Laboratory (HTRL) provides highly automated and parallel approaches to the development of new materials.
Electrochemical Discovery Laboratory (EDL)
High-quality materials for testing in beyond-lithium-ion batteries, state-of-the-art analytical techniques.
Cell Analysis, Modeling, and Prototyping (CAMP) Facility
The CAMP Facility enables the design, fabrication, and characterization of high-quality prototype electrodes and cells based on the latest discoveries in battery materials.