This work represents an effort to establish a materials characterization facility at a synchrotron radiation source which can be utilized on a fee-forservice, pay-as-you go basis by industrial research, development, and production organizations. The ultimate outcome of the program is the existence of a beamline facility dedicated to both analytical service and contract research. The Phase I effort will be to identify the materials and the analytical problem that can be addressed with a synchrotron radiation technique. This technique will be the basis for the beamline capabilities. Experiments will be performed on the materials to demonstrate that routine results can be obtained. The potential for scale-up will be addressed, with the goal of showing that the measurements can be done routinely at an existing synchrotron radiation source. A conceptual design for a prototype beamline which is optimized for routine analytical measurements will be developed. Anticipated Results /Potential Commercial Applications as described by the awardee:This effort will result in the growth of the market for the synchrotron radiation-based characterization of materials by industrial research organizations nationwide and in the further use of these techniques by industrial laboratories not currently utilizing them. This will provide for the more effective transfer of technology from the federally-funded laboratories, where the synchrotron radiation facilities exist, to the private research laboratories not currently using them.
