ChemMatCARS: A Synchrotron Resource for Chemistry and Materials Research at the Advanced Photon Source

该项目由化学和材料研究部门以及多学科活动办公室的数学和物理科学理事会支持，并由美国能源部基础能源科学办公室共同支持，使先进辐射源联盟（汽车）能够设计，建造，并在先进光子源（APS）同步加速器X射线设施中经营一个分配的部门，主要致力于结构和凝聚态化学和材料研究。 在这48个月的持续资助期间，芝加哥大学的斯图尔特·赖斯和詹姆斯·维卡罗博士，纽约州立大学斯托尼布鲁克分校的本杰明·朱，纽约州立大学布法罗分校的菲利普·科彭斯，哈佛大学的彼得·珀山，伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校的Mark Schlossman将领导一个专家小组，在APS的18区对插入装置光束线进行检测，区域：（1）软凝聚物质，分子液体和液体金属的表面和界面性质;（2）新型聚合物和复合材料的静态和时间相关的界面和体积性质，包括超分子和介观结构的性质;（3）化学晶体学，重点是异常散射，时间分辨率和高空间和能量色散。 在该项目中，计划开发的部门将作为汽车内ChemMatCARS研究人员小组的科学家进入APS的主要通道，并且还将向化学和材料研究社区的科学家提供25%的束流时间，其研究活动将受益于该设施。

This project, supported in the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences by the Divisions of Chemistry and Materials Research and by the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities, and co-supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Basic Energy Sciences, enables the Consortium for Advanced Radiation Sources (CARS) to design, build, and operate an allocated sector dedicated primarily to structural and condensed matter chemistry and materials research at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) synchrotron X-ray facility. During the tenure of this forty- eight month continuing grant, Drs. Stuart Rice and James Viccaro of the University of Chicago, Benjamin Chu of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, Philip Coppens of the State University of New York at Buffalo, Peter Pershan of Harvard University, and Mark Schlossman of the University of Illinois at Chicago will lead a team of experts to instrument the insertion device beamline at Sector 18 at the APS that will enable research in three areas: (1) surface and interfacial properties in soft condensed matter, molecular liquids, and liquid metals; (2) static and time-dependent interfacial and bulk properties of novel polymers and composites, including properties of supramolecular and mesoscopic structures; and (3) chemical crystallography, with emphasis on anomalous scattering, time resolution, and high spatial and energy dispersion. In this project, it is intended that the sector to be developed will serve as the primary access to the APS for scientists who comprise the ChemMatCARS group of investigators within CARS, and that there will also be made available 25% of beamtime to scientists in the chemistry and materials research communities whose research activities would benefit from this facility.