Argonne User Facility Agreements

About User Agreements

If you are not an Argonne National Laboratory employee, a user agreement signed by your home institution is a prerequisite for experimental work at any of Argonne’s user facilities. The Department of Energy recently formulated master agreements that cover liability, intellectual property, and financial issues (access templates from the links in the left sidebar).  The names of institutions with master agreements currently in place appear below.

How to Request a User Agreement

If your institution does not appear in the list below*, complete an online User Agreement Questionnaire, which is the first step toward putting a master user agreement in place.

* if there is a limited agreement covering participants from your institution for research at the specific facility you plan to use, it will be valid during the transition to a master agreement.

193 Institutions with Master Agreements in Place

(N indicates a non-proprietary agreement; P indicates proprietary.)
If you need a copy of one of these agreements, contact Anne Owens at  aowens@aps.anl.gov
  • Academia Sinica (N)
  • Advanced Diamond Technologies Inc. (N)
  • Aerospace Corporation (N)
  • Alabama A&M University (N)
  • Ames Laboratory (N)
  • Applied Diamond, Inc. (N)
  • Arizona State University (N)
  • Auburn University (N)
  • BAM Institute for Materials Research and Testing (Bundesanstalt fur Materialforschung) (N)
  • Baylor University (N)
  • Bechtel Marine Propulsion Corporation (N)
  • Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India (N)
  • Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences (N)
  • Boston College (N)
  • Boston University (N)
  • Brigham Young University (N)
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory (N)
  • Bryn Mawr College (N)
  • Carleton College (N)
  • Canadian Light Source Inc. (N)
  • Carnegie Institution of Washington (N)
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS),CIMAP-GANIL (N)
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Neel (N)
  • College of William & Mary (N)
  • ConfometRx, Inc.(P)
  • Creatv MicroTech, Inc. (N)
  • CSNSM, CNRS-IN2P3, Universite Paris Sud 11 (N)
  • DaLian Institute of Chemical Physics (N)
  • Defence Science and Technology Organisation (N)
  • Department of Biochemical Sciences, Universita di Roma La Sapienza (N)
  • DePaul University (N)
  • DePauw University (N)
  • Diamond Innovations Inc. (P)
  • Diamond Light Source (N)
  • Drexel University (N)
  • E.I. Dupont de Nemours and Co., Inc. (P & N)
  • Ecopulse, Inc. (N)
  • Emerald Biostructures (P)
  • Ewha Womans University (N)
  • Feng Chia University (N)
  • Florida State University (N)
  • Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (N)
  • Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena (Univ. of Jena) (N)
  • George Mason University (N)
  • Hampton University (N)
  • Hauptman Woodward Medical Research Institute, Inc. (N)
  • Henins Enterprises Inc.(N)
  • Hummingbird Scientific (N)
  • ICFO - Institute of Photonic Sciences (N)
  • Idaho National Laboratory (N)
  • Illinois Institute of Technology (P & N)
  • Illinois State University (N)
  • Indian Institute of Sciences (N)
  • INEOS USA LLC (P & N)
  • Institut Catala de Nanotecnologia (N)
  • Institut National des Sciences Appliquees de Lyon (N)
  • Institute of Crystallography - National Ressearch Council (N)
  • Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, ICMM-CSIC (N)
  • Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro (N)
  • Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Sezione di Padova (N)
  • Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) (N)
  • Johannes Gutenberg Universitat Mainz (N)
  • Johns Hopkins University (N)
  • Kinectric Inc. (N)
  • Kitware, Inc. (P & N)
  • Laboratoire d'Etudes des Microstructures, CNRS-ONERA (N)
  • Laboratoire de Geologie, CNRS-ENS (N)
  • Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. (N)
  • Langebio-Cinestav Irapuato (N)
  • La Trobe University (N)
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (N)
  • Linkoping University (N)
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory (N)
  • Louisiana State University Health Science Center - New Orleans (N)
  • Marquette University (N)
  • Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (N)
  • Max-Planck-Institut for Biophysical Chemistry (N)
  • Max-Planck-Institut fuer Eisenforschung GmbH (N)
  • McGill University (N)
  • Miami University (N)
  • Michigan State University (N)
  • Michigan Technological University (N)
  • Mississippi State University (N)
  • Nagoya Institute of Technology (N)
  • Nalco Company (N)
  • Nanonex Corporation (N)
  • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (N)
  • National ChiaYi University (N)
  • National Security Technologies LLC (N)
  • National Taiwan University (N)
  • Niigata University (N)
  • Norfolk State University (N)
  • Northeastern Illinois University (N)
  • Northern Illinois University (N)
  • Northwestern University (N)
  • Norwegian University of Science & Technology (N)
  • Oak Ridge National Laboratory (UT-Battelle, LLC)(N)
  • Ohio Wesleyan University (N)
  • Oregon State University (N)
  • Packer Engineering, Inc. (N)
  • Poly Crystallography Inc. (P & N)
  • Princeton University (N)
  • Purdue University (N)
  • Queen's University (N)
  • Receptos, Inc. (P)
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (N)
  • Rice University (N)
  • Rigaku Corporation (N)
  • RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science (N)
  • Safarik University (N)
  • SAIC - Frederick, Inc. (N)
    Sandia National Laboratories (N)
  • Shamrock Structures, LLC ( P & N)
  • Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (N)
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University (N)
  • South Dakota State University (N)
  • State University of New York, Stony Brook (N)
  • Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc. (P)
  • Technische Univesitaet Berlin (N)
  • Texas A&M University (N)
  • The Hospital for Sick Children(N)
  • The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) (N)
  • The Methodist Hospital Research Institute (N)
  • The Ohio State University (N)
  • The Pennsylvania State University (N)
  • The University of Chicago (N)
  • The University of Manchester (N)
  • The University of Manitoba (N)
  • The University of Newcastle (P & N)
  • The University of Texas at Austin (N)
    The University of Tulsa (N)
  • The University of York (N)
  • Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (N)
  • Trinity College Dublin (N)
  • Trinity University (N)
  • Tufts University (N)
  • United States Naval Academy (N)
  • Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (N)
  • Universita degli Studi di Trieste (N)
  • Universita di Camerino (N)
  • Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (N)
  • Universite de Technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard (N)
  • University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa (N)
  • University of Arizona (N)
  • University of Bonn (N)
  • University of California, Berkeley (N)
  • University of California, Santa Barbara (N)
  • University of Central Florida (N)
  • University of Cincinnati (N)
  • University College London (N)
  • University of Cologne (N)
  • University of Colorado at Boulder (N)
  • University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (N)
  • University of Houston (N)
  • University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) (N)
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) (N)
  • University of Jyvaskyla (N)
  • University of Liverpool (N)
  • University of Maryland (N)
  • University of Massachusetts Lowell (N)
  • University of Masssachusetts Dartmouth (N)
  • University of Minnesota (N)
  • University of Nebraska-Lincoln (N)
  • University of North Texas (N)
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (N)
  • University of Notre Dame (N)
  • University of Quebec in Abitibi Temiscamingue (N)
  • University of Santiago de Compostela (N)
  • University of Saskatchewan (N)
  • University of Sofia "St. K. Ohridski" (N)
  • University of South Carolina (N)
  • University of South Dakota (N)
  • University of South Florida (N)
  • University of St. Andrews (N)
  • University of Tennessee (N)
  • University of the West of Scotland (N)
  • University of Tsukuba (N)
  • University of Turin (N)
  • University of Ulm (N)
  • University of Victoria (N)
  • University of Warwick (N)
  • University of West Georgia (N)
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison (N)
  • University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (N)
  • University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (N)
  • University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (N)
  • Uppsala University (N)
  • U.S. Army, ARDEC, Picatinny (N)
  • Vanderbilt University (N)
  • Vita Nuova Holdings Limited (N)
  • Washington State University (N)
  • Western Michigan University (N)
  • Yale University (N)
  • Yonsei University (N)