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.

110 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)
  • Aerospace Corporation (N)
  • Alabama A&M University (N)
  • Ames Laboratory (N)
  • Arizona State University (N)
  • BAM Institute for Materials Research and Testing (Bundesanstalt fur Materialforschung) (N)
  • Bechtel Marine Propulsion Corporation (N)
  • Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences (N)
  • Brigham Young University (N)
  • Brookhaven National Laboratory (N)
  • Bryn Mawr College (N)
  • Canadian Light Source Inc. (N)
  • Carnegie Institution of Washington (N)
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS),CIMAP-GANIL (N)
  • College of William & Mary (N)
  • ConfometRx, Inc.(P)
  • DaLian Institute of Chemical Physics (N)
  • Department of Biochemical Sciences, Universita di Roma La Sapienza (N)
  • DePaul University (N)
  • DePauw University (N)
  • Diamond Light Source (N)
  • Drexel University (N)
  • Ecopulse, Inc. (N)
  • Ewha Womans University (N)
  • Florida State University (N)
  • Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (N)
  • Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena (Univ. of Jena) (N)
  • Hampton University (N)
  • Henins Enterprises Inc.(N)
  • Hummingbird Scientific (N)
  • Illinois Institute of Technology (P & N)
  • Indian Institute of Sciences (N)
  • INEOS USA LLC (P & N)
  • Institut Catala de Nanotecnologia (N)
  • Institute of Crystallography - National Ressearch Council (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)
  • Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd. (N)
  • Langebio-Cinestav Irapuato (N)
  • La Trobe University (N)
  • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (N)
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory (N)
  • Max-Planck-Institut for Biophysical Chemistry (N)
  • McGill University (N)
  • Miami University (N)
  • Michigan State University (N)
  • Michigan Technological University (N)
  • Nanonex Corporation (N)
  • National ChiaYi University (N)
  • National Taiwan University (N)
  • Northeastern Illinois University (N)
  • Northern Illinois University (N)
  • Northwestern University (N)
  • Norwegian University of Science & Technology (N)
  • Ohio Wesleyan University (N)
  • Oregon State University (N)
  • Poly Crystallography Inc. (P & N)
  • Princeton University (N)
  • Purdue University (N)
  • Receptos, Inc. (P)
  • Rice University (N)
  • Rigaku Corporation (N)
  • Safarik University (N)
  • SAIC - Frederick, Inc. (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)
  • The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) (N)
  • The Ohio 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 Tulssa (N)
  • Trinity University (N)
  • Universita degli Studi di Trieste (N)
  • Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (N)
  • University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa (N)
  • University of Bonn (N)
  • University of California, Berkeley (N)
  • University of California, Santa Barbara (N)
  • University of Cincinnati (N)
  • University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) (N)
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) (N)
  • University of Liverpool (N)
  • University of Maryland (N)
  • University of Massachusetts Lowell (N)
  • University of Masssachusetts Dartmouth (N)
  • University of Nebraska-Lincoln (N)
  • University of North Texas (N)
  • University of Notre Dame (N)
  • University of Santiago de Compostela (N)
  • University of Saskatchewan (N)
  • University of South Dakota (N)
  • University of Tennessee (N)
  • University of the West of Scotland (N)
  • University of Tsukuba (N)
  • University of Ulm (N)
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison (N)
  • University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (N)
  • University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (N)
  • U.S. Army, ARDEC, Picatinny (N)
  • Washington State University (N)
  • Western Michigan University (N)