NSLS-II supports research in energy security, advanced materials synthesis and manufacturing, environment, and human health.

[6] NSLS-II has partners with public and private institutions which joined effort to fund the construction and operation of some of its beamlines.

These programs group beamlines together that offer similar types of research techniques for studying the behavior and structure of matter.

This performance requires the storage ring to support a very high-current electron beam (up to 500 mA) with a very small horizontal (down to 0.5 nm-rad) and vertical (8 pm-rad) emittance.

The NSLS-II storage ring lattice consists of 30 double-bend achromat (DBA) cells that can accommodate at least 58 beamlines for experiments, distributed by type of source as follows: Continuing the tradition established by the NSLS, NSLS-II radiation sources span a very wide spectral range, from the far infrared (down to 0.1 eV) to the very hard X-ray region (>300 keV).