News and Announcements
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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
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...
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
2022 Graduate Student Research Award at ChemMatCARS (GSRAC): Luis Ortuno Macias, Pedro Bertolini and Xiaotong Zhang
Luis Ortuno Macias and Pedro Bertolini worked with Professor Binhua Lin, Dr. Wei Bu, and Dr. Mrinal Bera. Both are third-year PhD students from the Department of Chemical Engineering at City College of New York, working with Charles Maldarelli. The third student, Xiaotong Zhang, was hosted by Professor Yu-Sheng Chen. Zhang is a fourth-year PhD student in chemistry,...
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
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...
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.
2021 Data Analysis School on X-ray Scattering from Liquid Interfaces
ChemMatCARS hosted Data Analysis School on X-ray Scattering from Liquid Interfaces on August 17 and 18, 2021.
Making Better Drugs by Controlling Membrane Mechanics
Soft Matter, 16, 983 (2020)
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.
Scientists Gain Insight into Recycling Processes for Nuclear and Electronic Waste
J. Phys. Chem. C 2020
ChemMatCARS Offering a Two-Day School on Data Analysis for X-ray Studies of Liquid Interfaces
NSF’s ChemMatCARS is offering a two-day school on data analysis for X-ray studies of liquid interfaces. The school is designed primarily for graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and young scientists with some expertise in liquid interface science.
NSF’s ChemMatCARS is Pleased to Welcome New Postdoc Tieyan Chang.
NSF’s ChemMatCARS is pleased to welcome new postdoc Tieyan Chang.
NSF’s ChemMatCARS is Pleased to Welcome New Postdoc Ying-Pin Chen.
NSF’s ChemMatCARS is pleased to welcome new postdoc Ying-Pin Chen.