The High Temperature Materials Laboratory (HTML) is a Department of Energy (DOE) National User Facility making valuable contributions to our nation’s progress in transportation research. The facility’s funding comes from DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)’s FreedomCAR and Vehicle Technologies (FCVT) Program through a line item appropriation in the Program’s budget. HTML’s successes as a user facility extend from its unique equipment and exceptional staff, combined with its specific contracting mechanism for users (i.e. companies, universities, federal agencies). This mechanism gives users access to the equipment and expertise in the facility, provided the user is present and participates in the research. Staff and equipment time are provided at no cost to the user if the user consents to certain requirements, including publishing the research results in a technical journal. On a larger scale, the U.S. (particularly the transportation industry) also benefits with the knowledge in the resulting publications. (See full HTML "A National Asset" Overview) Click on picture to view covers.

The HTML User Centers and their capabilities include: Material Analysis - electron microscopes, microprobe, AFM, SAM Mechanical Characterization and Analysis - tensile, flexural testing at elevated temperatures Diffraction - x-ray and neutron at ambient and elevated temperatures Thermophysical Properties - heat flow (conductivity, diffusivity), thermal expansion Residual Stress - x-ray and neutron diffraction for nondestructive analysis Friction, Wear & Machinability- instrumented grinding, dimensional and surface finish measurements, friction and wear studies MPLUS User Center The Metals-Processing Laboratory Users Facility (MPLUS) is a facility, sponsored by the Department of Energy's Office of Industrial Technologies, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EE) designed to assist researchers in key U.S. industries, universities, and federal laboratories in improving energy efficiency and enhancing the user competiveness of the U.S. metals in the global market. MPLUS includes four primary user centers devoted to rapid changes in the marketplace and in improving products and processes: Processing, Joining, Characterization, and Materials/Process Modeling SHaRE User Program The Shared Research Equipment (SHaRE) User Facility and Program, sponsored by the Department of Energy's Basic Energy Science Program, Division of Scientific User Facilities, provide microanalytical facilities for studies within the material sciences. SHaRE offers state-of-the-art capabilites in the areas of transmission electron microscopy, atom-probe field-ion microscopy, surface analysis, nuclear microanalysis, and mechanical properties microanalysis. A diversity of research projects has been conducted, such as the characterization of magnetic materials, catalysis, semiconducting device materials, high Tc superconductors, and surface-modified polymers.