Meet Chris Heckle, Director of the new Materials Manufacturing Innovation Center

Argonne National Laboratory works closely with manufacturing towards implementing decarbonization processes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and while building towards a hydrogen economy, Argonne plays a key role in advancing innovation that is often difficult for an industry to do.

To further its commitment to supporting manufacturing, Argonne has launched the Materials Manufacturing Innovation Center (MMIC) as a key link to industry.

MMIC is a first point of contact for private manufacturing to make key collaborations within Argonne to build towards their vital sustainability goals. MMIC helps to solve complex problems in many areas including carbon reduction, battery recycling and energy storage, and many other critically important manufacturing processes.

Argonne has a demonstrated track record of assisting entrepreneurial projects within small companies all the way to large multinational firms with its materials synthesis and processing.

“The scale-up capabilities we have within our engineering and research facilities are state-of-the-art”, according to Chris Heckle, Director of Materials Manufacturing Innovation Center at Argonne. “There is a spirit of patriotism at Argonne as we recognize our leadership responsibilities in advancing U.S. manufacturing.

ABOUT ARGONNE
Argonne National Laboratory seeks solutions to pressing national problems in science and technology. The nation’s first national laboratory, Argonne conducts leading-edge basic and applied scientific research in virtually every scientific discipline. Argonne researchers work closely with researchers from hundreds of companies, universities, and federal, state and municipal agencies to help them solve their specific problems, advance America’s scientific leadership and prepare the nation for a better future. With employees from more than 60 nations, Argonne is managed by UChicago Argonne, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, visit the Office of Science website.