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By National Research Council, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications Commission on Physical Sciences, Committee on Developing a Federal Materials Facilities Strategy

The Committee on constructing a Federal fabrics amenities method used to be appointed through the nationwide examine Council (NRC) in keeping with a request by way of the federal organizations desirous about investment and working multidisciplinary consumer amenities for examine with synchrotron radiation, neutrons, and excessive magnetic fields. beginning in August 1996, a chain of conversations and conferences used to be held between NRC employees and officers from the nationwide technological know-how origin, the dep. of strength, the nationwide Institute of criteria and know-how (Department of Commerce), and the nationwide Institutes of well-being. The businesses have been involved that amenities initially constructed to help examine in fabrics technological know-how have been more and more utilized by scientists from different fields-particularly the organic sciences-whose learn was once supported by means of organisations except these chargeable for the amenities. This pattern, including the creation of numerous new, huge consumer amenities within the final decade, led the enterprises to hunt suggestion at the attainable desire for interagency cooperation within the administration of those federal examine facilities.

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Nal to both DOE and the facility. For example, industrial users formed PRTs among their own employees and collaborators to fund, design, construct, and support new beamlines. PRTs comprising universities, combinations of universities and industry, and researchers from other government agencies and other national laboratories were also formed. The PRTs brought significant instrumentation expertise to the development of the beamlines that they would subsequently use in their own research and were able to call on new sources of funds.

X-ray lenses are being developed for hard x-ray microscopes designed to operate in an energy range from 10 to 100 keV. Synchrotron studies on amorphous and partially ordered systems are expected to become increasingly important. X-ray imaging with microprobes is emerging as a major new technique with applications in the life sciences as well as in materials science and engineering. Nearly every materials science collaborative access team (CAT) at the APS is now developing microprobe capabilities, an activity that was not anticipated in the original plans for these experimental units.

The PRTs brought significant instrumentation expertise to the development of the beamlines that they would subsequently use in their own research and were able to call on new sources of funds. In exchange for their investment in facility instrumentation, the PRTs were granted exclusive access to 75% of the time at their beam port. Interagency Support In the steward-partner management model discussed above, many of the experimental stations are funded by government agencies other than the facility 35 MANAGEMENT MODELS steward.

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