REAL ID Implementation for Access to Argonne
Dear NSF’s ChemMatCARS Users,
ARGONNE SITE ACCESS REQUIRES REAL ID CREDENTIALS STARTING May 03, 2023
Starting Wednesday, May 3, 2023, site access credentials used to enter Argonne property must be REAL ID compliant. Persons without a REAL ID license will be required to provide other forms of identification before site access can be granted. Details on compliant documents can be found here.
This requirement applies to all non-employees, 18 years of age or older including facility users, resident users, visitors, vendors, etc.
Resident staff who have not yet provided REAL ID compliant ID/documents, will be contacted by Security. Long-term badges will not be issued past May 3 without submission of REAL ID documentation. Resident staff can reach out directly to the AIC for information on the REAL ID status.
QUESTIONS should be sent to heysecurity@anl.gov.
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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).
NSF’S ChemMatCARS Beamline Upgrades supported by NSF grant CHE-1836674
Recent Publications
Advanced Crystallography
Twisted Diindeno-Fused Dibenzo[a,h]anthracene Derivatives and their Dianions“, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 62 (34), e202307750 (2023)
, Klaus Müllen et al., “Liquid Surface/Interface X-ray Scattering
Amanda Carr, Ahmet Uysal et al., “Heavy versus Light Lanthanide Selectivity for Graphene Oxide Films Is Concentration-Dependent“, J. Phys. Chem. C, 127(29), 14363-14373 (2023)
Anomalous Small and Wide Angle X-ray Scattering (ASWAXS)
JIahui Chen, Uta Ruett et al., “Extended q-range X-ray Scattering Reveals High-Resolution Structural Details of Biomacromolecules in Aqueous Solutions“, Chem.Eur. J., 29(31), e202203551 (2023)
Science Highlights
Visit our Science Highlights page for a full listing of highlights from NSF’s ChemMatCARS.
Advanced Crystallography

Opening PAH Pathways to New Energy Storage and Beyond
Coordination Chemistry Reviews 2023, 486, 215144
Liquid Surface/Interface X-ray Scattering

First Look at a Critical Lipid-Binding Process
Biophysical Journal 2023, 122, 1926–1937
Anomalous Small and Wide Angle X-ray Scattering (ASWAXS)

MOFs Can Be Good Hosts for Guest Molecules
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 7323−7330
Latest News

NSF’s ChemMatCARS is Pleased to Welcome New Beamline Scientist, Daniel Kerr.
NSF’s ChemMatCARS is pleased to welcome new beamline scientist, Daniel Kerr.

NSF’s ChemMatCARS Part of Successful DOE Long Duration Storage: “Shot EERC Proposal”
The Advanced Crystallography program at NSF’s ChemMatCARS will play a pivotal role in the characterization of emerging energy materials through the utilization of state-of-the-art crystallography techniques under a proposal funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as part of the DOE Energy Earthshot Research Centers (EERCs).

Watching Construction of the Second ID Beamline at NSF’s ChemMatCARS
Work has begun in earnest on the NSF’sChemMatCARS new second insertion device beamline, in conjunction with the Advanced Photon Source (APS) upgrade. Efforts directed at upgrading the existing ChemMatCARS instruments are also ramping up.

2023 Neutron X-ray School
ChemMatCARS beamline scientist, Dr. Mrinal Bera hosted graduate students at NX School on August 15, 2023.