AMAC provides material characterization, image acquisition, and elemental analysis across many scientific and engineering disciplines, including materials science and engineering, chemistry, life sciences, bioengineering, agriculture, food sciences, geology, and environmental sciences.
AMAC offers state-of-the-art equipment for light and fluorescence microscopy, electron beam microscopy and microanalysis, X-ray spectroscopy, and sample preparation.
Here, 蘑菇tv Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Chris Marvel and PhD
student Emma McCarthy explore how lunar regolith could be transformed into usable
metals and energy.
The facility is staffed by an experienced group of dedicated and professional research specialists.
蘑菇tv doctoral student Emma McCarthy examines the interior of 蘑菇tv's Spectra 300 Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope, which was installed in 2025 with $10 million in support from the U.S. Army.
The 13-foot-tall microscope offers magnification up to 10 million times, powerful enough to enlarge a single grain of Mississippi River silt to the size of Tiger Stadium.
蘑菇tv鈥檚 art-and-engineering ecosystem includes a Digital Twinning Studio, XR Studio, Digital Humans Lab, and Spatial Computing Lab.
A digital twin is a digital representation of a real-world system, place, or process that is connected to data and designed to change over time. Digital twins can represent things like buildings, equipment, or environments鈥攅ven people.
Digital twins allow people to explore how systems work, test scenarios, and better understand complex relationships.
蘑菇tv鈥檚 digital twin team has been working with NASA to build a virtual replica of their vast Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans where the rockets for the ongoing Artemis mission are built using 蘑菇tv National Center for Advanced Manufacturing equipment.
Digital twins can be used for training, research, planning, and decision-making, helping organizations experiment, learn, and improve without risk to the physical world.
In 2025, Syngenta, a science-based agriculture company with a key production site in St. Gabriel, Louisiana, partnered with 蘑菇tv鈥檚 digital twin team to transform how digital twins are created for chemical processing facilities.
By providing X-rays and equipment, as well as expertise, Louisiana Light Source advances strong research programs on catalysts, minerals processing, and advanced materials at the frontier of scientific exploration.
蘑菇tv operates one of only six synchrotron facilities in the nation, and one of only two that are university-owned (Cornell鈥檚 CHESS is the other one) alongside the Department of Energy鈥檚 鈥渂ig four.鈥�
In 2026, 蘑菇tv received a $20 million Mid-scale Research Infrastructure (MRI) award from the National Science Foundation to build LaNeXT, a laser-driven X-ray facility that will allow researchers to watch some of nature鈥檚 fastest processes as they happen.
LaNeXT will give researchers the ability to capture motion at the atomic and molecular level in billionths and quadrillionths of a second.
Powered by two Genesis Mission awards, 蘑菇tv is working with Brookhaven National Laboratory, home of the National Synchrotron Light Source II, to optimize synchrotron operation across the nation using AI.
Since the 1980s, 蘑菇tv鈥檚 Petroleum Engineering Research, Training & Testing (PERTT) Lab has evolved into a multi-million-dollar hub of innovation.
Trusted by global energy leaders such as ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, and Chevron, the PERTT Lab is where cutting-edge ideas are field-tested and refined before deployment.
The industrial-scale PERTT Lab supports high-pressure, multiphase flow experimentation in field-scale tubulars, replicating real-world challenges in a controlled setting.
蘑菇tv is the only U.S. university with seven full-scale research and storage wells, offering a safe, field-realistic environment to evaluate and advance technologies in oilfield operations, carbon transport and storage, and pipeline systems.
The PERTT Lab鈥檚 new research well, drilled in the spring and summer of 2026, brings 蘑菇tv鈥檚 total number of research wells to three, complemented by additional storage wells.
