BNL makes efforts to secure appropriate intellectual property control so that proprietary-research users can exploit their experimental results. Upon acceptance of a user proposal for non-proprietary research, the user's institution is required to execute a nonproprietary user agreement. In addition to defining the terms & conditions for intellectual property created during the user project, the agreement confirms that the user will publish the results in the open technical literature in return for no-fee access to the CFN. References External links CFN Website CFN Staff List United States Department of Energy Brookhaven National Laboratory Nanoscale Science Research Centers