Update on Status at NSF’s ChemMatCARS, April 20, 2022
Dear NSF’s ChemMatCARS Users,
CHANGE OF ARGONNE SITE ACCESS REQUIREMENTS TAKE EFFECT APRIL 14, 2022
Please see the announcement on the APS COVID Rules and Regulations.
Our Mission
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
Till Schmidt-Räntsch, Sven Schneider et al., “Nitrogen Atom Transfer Catalysis by Metallonitrene C–H Insertion: Photocatalytic Amidation of Aldehydes” Angew. Chem.Int. Ed., 61(9), e202115626 (2022)
Sangjun Yoo, Pulak Dutta et al., “Specific Ion Effects in Lanthanide–Amphiphile Structures at the Air–Water Interface and Their Implications for Selective Separation” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 14(5), 7504-7512 (2022)
Miguel Gonzalez, Daniel G. Nocera et al., “Taming the Chlorine Radical: Enforcing Steric Control over Chlorine-Radical-Mediated C–H Activation” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 144(3), 1464-1472 (2022)
Pan Sun, Mark L. Schlossman et al., “Antagonistic Role of Aqueous Complexation in the Solvent Extraction and Separation of Rare Earth Ions” ACS Cent. Sci., 7(11), 1908-1918 (2021)
Science Highlights
Visit our Science Highlights page for a full listing of highlights from NSF’s ChemMatCARS.
Advanced Crystallography
Taming the Chlorine Radical: Enforcing Steric Control over Chlorine-Radical-Mediated C−H Activation
Journal of the American Chemistry Society, 144, 1464-1472 (2022)
Liquid Surface/Interface X-ray Scattering
Specific Ion Effects in Lanthanide-Amphiphile Complex
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 14, 7504-7512 (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
Job Opportunity: Beamline Technician/Engineer Position
Beamline Technician/Engineer Position at Chemistry and Material Sciences Center for Advanced Radiation Sources (ChemMatCARS), University of Chicago ChemMatCARS is seeking a Beamline Technician or a Beamline Engineer to join the team. ChemMatCARS, affiliated with the...
Revealing Fundamental Details Surrounding Nanoparticle Self-Assembly
Nano Lett. 21(4), 1613 (2021). DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c04147
Small-angle Scattering Seminar Series
A monthly virtual seminar series on Small-angle Scattering (https://small-angle.aps.anl.gov/seminars) chaired by Mrinal Bera at SAXS-SIG, Advanced Photon Source.
Partnerships for Research and Education in Chemistry (PREC) with NSF’s ChemMatCARS (Click here)
CALL FOR PREPROPOSALS
NSF’s ChemMatCARS is seeking candidates to form partnerships for research and education in chemistry, in response to the solicitation for Partnerships for Research and Education in Chemistry (PREC), released on September 15, 2021, from the Division of Chemistry (CHE), NSF (https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/partnerships-research-and-education-chemistry-prec). The PREC program will fund partnerships between minority-serving institutions (MSIs) and CHE-supported research centers/facilities, such as NSF’s ChemMatCARS.