News and Announcements
Crystallography Workshop 2025
ChemMatCARS co-hosted a workshop with Howard University (HU) and the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) at the UDC campus in Washington, DC, on October 25–26, 2025. The event brought together 29 participants: eight faculty members, twelve graduate students,...
ChemMatCARS Webinar
ChemMatCARS hosted a two-hour webinar on September 9, 2025 to explain the restart of operations in early 2026. Mark Schlossman, co-PI and deputy director of ChemMatCARS gave an overview of the three ChemMatCARS science programs to 108 outside participants and...
ChemMatCARS Beamline 15-ID1 Passes X-ray Shielding Verification
On October 2, ChemMatCARS achieved a major milestone: 15-ID1, one of the two beamlines at ChemMatCARS (see figure below), passed X-ray shielding verification. With the achievement of this milestone, beamline 15-ID1 will begin Technical Commissioning. During Technical...
ChemMatCARS Research Program Sets Up Grads for the Future
Left to right: Busurat Mudashiru, Timothy Tizhe Fidelis, and Connly Yan at an APS beamline. Hengjia Liang, who participated remotely, and is shown in the inset.Timothy Tizhe Fidelis, Hengjia Liang, Busurat Mudashiru, and Connly Yan were the 2025 winners of Graduate...
APS National X-ray School
NSF’s ChemMatCARS participated in teaching for the APS National X-ray School on July 31, 2025. Dr. Mrinal Bera demonstrated some of the basic concepts of Anomalous Small Angle X-ray Scattering (ASAXS) in determining the element-specific structure of nanomaterials...
ChemMatCARS beamline scientist Mrinal Bera gave a lecture in “Beyond Rg: BioSAXS-2025” workshop organized by APS
ChemMatCARS beamline scientist Mrinal Bera introduced anomalous small- and wide-angle x-ray scattering (ASWAXS) using for soft and nanomaterial research.
2025 Graduate Student Research Award at ChemMatCARS (GSRAC): Busurat Mudashiru
ChemMatCARS welcomes the 2025 GSRAC award recipient, Busurat Mudashiru from Ohio University. She will employ single-crystal X-ray diffraction (SCXRD) to characterize a unique family of porous extended lattice materials composed of a single type of metal-organic...
2025 Graduate Student Research Award at ChemMatCARS (GSRAC): Connly Yan
ChemMatCARS welcomes the 2025 GSRAC award recipient, Connly Yan from the University of Illinois, Chicago. She will be conducting research in Spatially Mapping Electronic Structures of Atomically Precise Copper Nanoclusters Using Resonant X-ray Diffraction Anomalous...
2025 Graduate Student Research Award at ChemMatCARS (GSRAC): Hengjia Liang
ChemMatCARS welcomes the 2025 GSRAC award recipient, Hengjia Liang from the University of Chicago. He is working with Dr. Daniel Kerr to develop a robust Bayesian statistical framework to infer protein orientations from x-ray reflectivity data collected at the...