Ames Laboratory

We Create Materials and Energy Solutions

Ames National Laboratory is a U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratory dedicated to creating materials, inspiring minds to solve problems, and addressing global challenges.

News & Highlights

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Stock image depicting a plastic bag in a mountain lake.

Feature Story

New protocol could help advance plastic upcycling technologies

News Release

Deputy Secretary of Energy, NASA Administrator visit Ames National Laboratory

Feature Story

New Ames Lab atomizer unlocks materials for next-generation gas turbines and fusion energy

In the News

DOE’s Critical Materials Innovation Hub Awards $10 Million for Early-Stage Research and Development

Research Highlight

Adsorption of Rare Earths on Kaolinite and Selective Stripping with Deep Eutectic Solvents

Research Divisions

Ames Lab organolead mixed-halide perovskites

Chemical and Biological Sciences

Metal powder particles formed by high-pressure gas atomization

Materials Sciences and Engineering

Simulation, Modeling and Decision Science

Critical Materials

Research Programs

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Critical Materials Innovation Hub

Institute for Cooperative Upcycling of Plastics

Center for the Advancement of Topological Semimetals

Machine Learning Accelerated Materials Discovery Center

Services & Resources

Materials Preparation Center

Purification, preparation, and characterization of metals, alloys, and single crystals for research and industry

Sensitive Instrument Facility

Houses state-of-the-art electron microscopes in a vibration- and static-free environment for the highest possible resolution

Partner with Ames National Laboratory

Through multi-institutional collaborations, industry partnerships, and technology licensing, we transition basic energy science through early-stage research to commercialization.

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