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The National Laboratory in Your Backyard The Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory

Alex King, Lab Director

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• The Ames Laboratory is a GOCO, and a FFRDC

• It is operated by Iowa State University, under contract

from DOE

• It is considered a separate institution from ISU, and

Dr. Leath is its Board Chairman

• It is frequently confused with the NASA Ames

Research Center, and also with the USDA Labs located

in Ames.

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Office of Science Labs

The Ames Laboratory

Argonne National Lab

Brookhaven National Lab

Fermi National Accelerator

Laboratory

Lawrence Berkeley National

Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Lab

Pacific Northwest National

Laboratory

Princeton Plasma Physics

Laboratory

SLAC National Accelerator

Laboratory

Thomas Jefferson National

Accelerator Facility

The 17 DOE National Laboratories Energy Technology Labs

Idaho National Laboratory

National Energy Technology Lab

National Renewable Energy Lab

Savannah River National Lab

NNSA Laboratories

Lawrence Livermore National

Laboratory

Los Alamos National

Laboratory

Sandia National Laboratories

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The Ames Laboratory creates materials,

inspires minds to solve problems,

and addresses global challenges.

The Ames Laboratory’s Mission

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Danny Shechtman 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

“For the discovery of quasicrystals”

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4.2 billion cell phone and 2.6 billion PC owners

use our lead-free solder technology every day.

Small gasoline engines

(lawnmowers, power tools, etc.) are

cleaner and more efficient because

of Terfenol-D.

All 7 billion people on Earth are impacted by

our Multiplexed Capillary Electrophoresis,

which was used in the Human Genome

Project and is a key technology for DNA sequencing.

Ames Lab inventions touch the lives of

billions of people, worldwide.

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• For Fiscal Year 2011, Ames Laboratory inventions generated

$9,174,898 in royalty income, based on $766,879,618 in sales.

• Of those sales, $110,641,350 were from Iowa-based companies,

supporting more than 540 jobs in the manufacturing sector*.

• The total represents over $22 of economic activity for every

dollar spent by the Lab.

Sustaining Economic Activity

* Assuming an average of $203,965 in sales per employee, as reported by

http://www.inc.com/quarterly-financial-report/manufacturing.html

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The Best of the Bunch

For FY 2011, the Ames Lab provided 37% of all of DOE’s

economic contribution from licensed technologies.

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• CRADA with Molycorp Minerals and a MOU with Kitech, promoting

rare earth research collaborations.

• BREM project with U of Nebraska, U of Maryland, Brown University

and Arnold Magnetics

• MOU with Sigma-Aldrich on purification techniques including rare

earth metals and metal oxides.

• AMES has been featured on the main DOE website, the Office of

Science website.

• Media quotes from the Ames Tribune to the Chicago Tribune to National

Geographic to the London Financial Times to Japan's Asahi Shinbun to

the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle.

• NOVA television series

External Connections

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• Rare earths

• Catalysis

• Solid-state materials discovery, synthesis, and design

• Advanced analytical instrumentation

• Forensic science

• Technology transfer

Signature Strengths

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Ames Lab points of distinction

The highest integration of any national lab with a university campus

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• Supply Enhancement

– Metal Production

• Schmidt-Gschneidner process for making Nd master alloy:

inexpensive, energy-efficient, environmentally friendly.

– Rare Earth Recycling

• Demand Reduction

– Lower RE-content magnets

– Beyond rare earth magnets

– Cerium-based magnets

– Manganese composite magnets

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• Magnetic Refrigeration

• Extraordinarily Responsive Magnetic Materials

• Dopants in Superconductors

• Wind Energy

– Interactions with crops

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• Integrated conference facility

• Improved flexibility

• Videoconferencing capabilities

Spedding Auditorium

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• Consolidate sensitive instruments in one place

• Accommodate next generation equipment

• Coordinate with ISU plans

• Major impact on the science mission

• $1.5M planning budget approved

Sensitive Instrument Facility

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• DOE’s assessment of the Lab’s science rose from B+ to A-.

• 10 new projects started in FY 2011.

• 13% of our papers were in “high-impact” journals in FY 2011 – exceeding

DOE goals.

• 280 media stories, ranging from the Ames Tribune to NPR and the Financial

Times of London, mostly focusing on rare earths.

• More invention disclosures and patents than in any previous year.

• Patent reform legislation very favorable to the Ames Lab.

• ….

Recent Achievements

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• Eliminate duplication of effort with other DOE

labs and programs – “Swim in your own lane.”

• Ensure clear separation between the Lab and

the university – “Be a national lab, not a

university research center.”

Direction from DOE

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• Break ground for the Sensitive Instrument Facility.

• Bring the Energy Innovation Hub for Critical Materials

to Ames. ($20M/yr.)

• Obtain approval to build a new computing center.

Goals for the Year

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Questions?

Thank you!