Shared Facilities

FUNCTION:
The Synchrotron Research Center manages the operations of the DuPont-Northwestern-Dow Collaborative Access Team (DND-CAT) instrumentation at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory. Funds for construction, management, and operations to date have been obtained from E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. , the Dow Chemical Company, the National Science Foundation through the Academic Research Infrastructure program and the Materials Research Center , the State of Illinois through the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs and the Higher Education Cooperation Act, and the US Department of Energy. University sources of funds include the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science , the office of the Vice President, and the Office of Research. The facility supports state of the art X-ray research in the fields of biology, physics, chemistry, chemical engineering, environmental science, and materials science and engineering.

EQUIPMENT:

DND-CAT operates five experimental stations. Three of these utilize undulator radiation and two utilize a part of the dipole radiation fan. DND-CAT currently supports several interdisciplinary X-ray techniques including x-ray spectroscopy, macromolecular and inorganic crystallography, small angle x-ray scattering, x-ray tomography and powder diffraction.