These sites may interest people who prepare targets and samples for physics and/or chemistry research.

http://www.phy.anl.gov/targetlab/homepage.htm
The target lab at Argonne National Lab (ANL), USA

http://www-w2k.gsi.de/kindler/Englisch/targetho.htm
The target labs at Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI), Germany

http://www.dl.ac.uk/NPG/target_manufacture.htm
The target lab at Daresbury Laboratories, UK