![Officials from the U.S. Department of Energy and Argonne National Laboratory join Deputy Secretary of Energy Mark Menezes and Argonne Director Paul Kearns to cut the ribbon on the expanded Materials Engineering Research Facility on September 10, 2020. (Image by Argonne National Laboratory.)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20201218060933im_/https://www.anl.gov/sites/www/files/styles/featured_article_16x9/public/2020-09/MERF%20ribboncutting_16x9.jpg?h=8abcec71&itok=9P3ZsMjK)
Energy and Global Security
Applied Materials
AMDThe Applied Materials Division accelerates the development of new materials and processes using scalable synthesis, advanced characterization, and device fabrication and testing to drive innovation from invention to commercialization.
Argonne’s Applied Materials Division accelerates the development of new materials and processes using scalable synthesis, advanced characterization, and device fabrication and testing to drive innovation from invention to commercialization. We do this by applying science and engineering to address challenges, bridging fundamental research through commercial manufacturing to meet the advanced materials needs of the future.