Ames Laboratory Security Rating

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Industry Government
Footprint 2.59M IPs
Followers Monitored by 6 companies
Year founded 1947
Employees 375

Ames National Laboratory is a research institution engaged in the discovery, synthesis, analysis, and application of new materials, chemistries, and analytical tools. It seeks solutions to energy-related problems through research across chemical, biological, materials, simulation, modeling, and decision sciences. The laboratory focuses on topological semimetals, critical materials, plastic upcycling, and materials discovery using machine learning.

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