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

美国国家科学基金会的化学部和材料研究部以及能源部的基础能源科学办公室根据化学研究仪器和设施计划(CRIF)为阿贡先进光子源的ChemMatCARS提供持续的支持。该奖项为化学和材料科学界提供这一独特资源的维护、操作和精选升级，作为国家用户设施。该设施支持的主要技术包括化学结晶学、表面科学、小角X射线散射和广角X射线散射。该仪器可以被改装成适合于在专门的样品环境中使用各种类型的用户室。该用户设备提供了一种独特的高亮度X射线资源，用于研究从原子到介观的长度尺度上的液体和固体的表面、界面和整体性质。该设施处理各种科学问题，从晶体结构测定到多孔膜的形成，再到锂电池。由ChemMatCARS用户设施促成的研究活动开创了采用同步加速器技术以最好地服务于化学界的步伐；促进了改进材料的发展，特别是塑料、薄膜和纳米复合材料。该设施是各级研究人员的训练场。

The Division of Chemistry and the Division of Materials Research at the National Science Foundation, and the Office of Basic Energy Sciences at the Department of Energy provide continuing support to ChemMatCARS at the Argonne Advanced Photon Source under the Chemistry Research Instrumentation and Facilities Program (CRIF). The award provides maintenance, operation and selected upgrades of this unique resource as a national user facility for the chemical and materials science communities. The major techniques supported by the facility include chemical crystallography, surface science, small-angle X-ray scattering and wide-angle X-ray scattering. The instrumentation can be adapted to accept a wide variety of user chambers for specialized sample environments. This user facility provides a unique high brilliance X-ray resource for the study of surface, interfacial and bulk properties of liquids and solids on length scales ranging from the atomic to the mesoscopic. The facility deals with a wide variety of scientific problems ranging from crystal structure determination to formation of porous membranes to lithium batteries. The research activities enabled by the ChemMatCARS user facility set the pace in adapting synchrotron techniques to best serve the chemistry community; contribute to the development of improved materials, notably plastics, membranes and nano-composites. The facility serves as a training ground for researchers at all levels.