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We Welcome Your Ideas about New Initiatives

New initiatives in biomembrane science and serial crystallography of small molecules, among others, will be developed at our new beamline. We are currently preparing a proposal to NSF for operations of these initiatives.  We welcome brief descriptions of how these facilities will benefit your research program that can be used in our upcoming proposal.Biomembranes...

NSF’s ChemMatCARS Hosts Students from Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart

NSF’s ChemMatCARS Hosts Students from Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart

Hoffman Estates HS students run their experiment at 15-ID. On Sunday, February 17, 2019, NSF’s ChemMatCARS hosted a team of six Hoffman Estates High School students participating the Exemplary Student Research Program (ESRP) at 15-ID X-ray beamline for a hands-on synchrotron experiment in materials research. The students spent 24 hours at the beamline carrying out...

Job Opportunity: Beamline Technician

Beamline Technician Position at Chemistry and Material Sciences Center for Advanced Radiation Sources (ChemMatCARS), University of Chicago ChemMatCARS, affiliated with the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME), the University of Chicago and funded by NSF, is a national user facility for frontier research in chemistry and materials science using synchrotron...

Faculty-student team from Hope College discovers the orientation packing of clusters of nanoparticles by using X-ray diffraction

Faculty-student team from Hope College discovers the orientation packing of clusters of nanoparticles by using X-ray diffraction

Professor Yu-Sheng Chen welcomed Assistant Professor Natalia Gonzalez-Pech and her student, rising sophomore Nicholas Figueroa, from the Department of Chemistry at Hope College, an all-undergraduate institution in Holland, Michigan. Figueroa spent six weeks at the beamline; Gonzalez-Pech visited periodically as her schedule permitted. The following is a lightly...

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 national synchrotron x-ray user research facility at Sector 15 of the Advanced Photon Source (APS)...

Welcome back! 2022 FaSTRAC and GSRAC program

Welcome back! 2022 FaSTRAC and GSRAC program

After a hiatus of two years due to the pandemic, we have welcomed FaSTRAC and GSRAC recipients on-site this summer. Assistant Professor Natalia Gonzalez-Pech and her student, Nicholas Figueroa, from Department of Chemistry in Hope College will be hosted by Professor Yu-Sheng Chen. We have 3 GSRAC recipients this year: Pedro Bertolini and Luis Ortuno Macias from...

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.

PME to celebrate 10th anniversary

PME to celebrate 10th anniversary

The Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago will celebrate its 10th anniversary throughout the 2021-2022 academic year with event series.