Update on Status at NSF’s ChemMatCARS, August 25, 2022
Dear NSF’s ChemMatCARS Users,
COVID POLICY CHANGES TAKE EFFECT AUGUST 24, 2022
Please see the announcement on the APS COVID Rules and Regulations.
NSF’s ChemMatCARS operates three experimental stations in the areas of advanced small-molecule crystallography, liquid surface and interface scattering, and small to wide-angle scattering at the Advanced Photon Source (APS), the premier undulator-based synchrotron source of high-brilliance high-energy x-rays in the U.S.A. The instrumentation at NSF’s ChemMatCARS provides information that addresses a broad range of issues in chemistry and materials research. NSF’s ChemMatCARS is supported by the Divisions of Chemistry (CHE) and Materials Research (DMR), National Science Foundation, under grant number NSF/CHE-1834750 (click here for detail). Construction of a second beamline at NSF’s ChemMatCARS is supported by NSF grant CHE-1836674 with contributions from the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities within the Directorate of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and NSF Divisions in Chemistry (CHE), Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB), and Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems Engineering (CBET) (click here for detail).
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Recent Publications
Advanced Crystallography
A Synthetic Cycle for Heteroarene Synthesis by Nitride Insertion” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 61(46), e202213041 (2022)
, “Liquid Surface/Interface X-ray Scattering
Ankit D. kanthe, Raymond S. Tu et al., “Differential Surface Adsorption Phenomena for Conventional and Novel Surfactants Correlates with Changes in Interfacial mAb Stabilization” Mol. Pharmaceutics, 19(9), 3100-3113 (2022)
Anomalous Small Angle X-ray Scattering (ASAXS)
Brian Riley et al., “Silver-Loaded Xerogel Nanostructures for Iodine Capture: A Comparison of Thiolated versus Unthiolated Sorbents” ACS Appl. Nano Mater., 5(7), 9478-9494 (2022)
Science Highlights
Visit our Science Highlights page for a full listing of highlights from NSF’s ChemMatCARS.
Advanced Crystallography

Molecular Synthesis Using Scaffold Hopping
Science, 376, 6592, 527-532 (2022)
Liquid Surface/Interface X-ray Scattering

Nanosheet Growth at the Air-Water interface
Nano Lett. 2022, 22, 7, 3040-3046 (2022)
Anomalous Small Angle X-ray Scattering (ASAXS)

Role of Zeolite Structural Properties toward Iodine Capture
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 14, 16, 18439–18452 (2022)
Latest News

An “Artificial Photosynthesis” System that is 10 Times More Efficient than Existing Systems
Nature Catalysis, 5, 1006-1018 (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41929-022-00865-5
Congratulations to ChemMatCARS user Xiuquan Zhou!
Zhou’s article “Discovery of chalcogenides structures and compositions using mixed fluxes” is published on Nature!
Nature, 612, 72-77 (2022).
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05307-7

How Water and Ions Interact with Graphene Oxide Films
Carbon, 195, 131e140 (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2022.03.077
Job Opportunity: Beamline scientist for liquid interface scattering
Synchrotron X-ray Beamline Scientist at ChemMatCARS, Sector 15 of the Advanced Photon Source / Visiting Research Assistant Professor The University of Illinois at Chicago is seeking a Beamline Scientist in liquid interface x-ray scattering to join NSF’s ChemMatCARS, a...