The NSRC oversees access to and use of the University’s two beamlines at Argonne National Laboratory’s Advanced Photon Source for materials science and structural biology research.
Research Facilities

DND-CAT
DND-CAT (DuPont-Northwestern-Dow Collaborative Access Team)
Located at Sector 5 of the Advanced Photon Source, we operate a state-of-the-art x-ray facility for performing materials research and solving industrial problems.

LS-CAT
LS-CAT (Life Sciences Collaborative Access Team)
Located at Sector 21 of the Advanced Photon Source, we provide macromolecular crystallography resources for those with a need to determine the structure of proteins.