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 Manufacturing Science and Engineering program offers access to expertise and capabilities found together only at Argonne.
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.
Intermediate Voltage Electron Microscopy Facility-Tandem
The Intermediate Voltage Electron Microscopy (IVEM) Facility-Tandem Facility is used for in situ tandem electron microscopy studies of defect structures in materials.
Low-Energy Accelerator Facility
The Low-Energy Accelerator Facility (LEAF) is a 50 MeV/25 kW electron linear accelerator producing a wide range of radioisotopes for medical, national security, basic science and industrial applications
Materials Engineering Research Facility
Argonne’s Materials Engineering Research Facility (MERF) is an integral part of the laboratory’s Manufacturing Science and Engineering program, as well as a user facility.
Materials Engineering Research Facility Expansion
The planned MERF expansion will support advanced manufacturing research with collaboration work space and new lab and highbay space for research, validation, and scale-up.