ChemMatCARS: A synchrotron X-ray national facility for chemistry and materials research at the Advanced Photon Source

化学司和材料研究司在农业部多学科活动办公室的支持下，为化学和材料科学前沿研究的国家用户设施ChemMatCARS提供持续支持，该机构在阿贡国家实验室的先进光子源使用同步辐射X射线。ChemMatCARS的各个站为广泛的国内和国际科学家社区服务。研究活动涉及重要的社会问题，包括新能源的开发，如太阳能制氢、生物过程激发的生物分子材料、环境修复过程以及对广泛行业重要的新材料和催化剂。该设施作为各级研究人员的培训基地，开展了许多活动，以发展和多样化未来的STEM工作力量。该用户设施为研究先进的小分子结晶学、液体表面和界面散射以及块状材料的超小到广角散射提供了独特的高亮度X射线资源。ChemMatCARS的先进仪器能够在从纳秒到分钟的时间范围内，在原子、分子和介观长度尺度上对有序和无序的固体、液体和界面进行前沿研究。ChemMatCARS的用户利用其独特的功能来解决各种科学问题。研究课题包括对环境和生命过程重要的界面化学研究，生物分子材料，用于气体吸附和分离的金属-有机骨架，用于催化、电子和磁应用的无机材料，用于开关、传感器和能源生产的光响应材料，用于可调中尺度结构的定向组装，以及用于能源生产和储存的新工艺和材料。

The Division of Chemistry and the Division of Materials Research with support from the MPS Office of Multidisciplinary Activities provides continuing support to ChemMatCARS, a national user facility for frontier research in chemistry and materials science employing synchrotron X-rays at the Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory. Various stations at ChemMatCARS serve a broad national and international community of scientists. Research activities address vital societal issues, including the development of new energy sources such as solar-to-hydrogen production, biomolecular materials inspired by biological processes, environmental remediation processes, and new materials and catalysts important for a wide range of industries. The facility serves as a training ground for researchers at all levels and carries out numerous activities to develop and diversify the future STEM workforce.This user facility provides a unique high brilliance X-ray resource for the study of advanced small-molecule crystallography, liquid surface and interface scattering, and ultra-small to wide-angle scattering from bulk materials. Advanced instrumentation at ChemMatCARS enables forefront research of ordered and disordered solids, liquids and interfaces on the atomic, molecular and mesoscopic length scales over a range of time scales from nanoseconds to minutes. Users of ChemMatCARS take advantage of its unique capabilities to address a wide variety of scientific problems. Research topics include studies of interfacial chemistry important for environmental and life processes, biomolecular materials, metal-organic frameworks for gas adsorption and separation, inorganic materials for catalytic, electronic and magnetic applications, photo-responsive materials for switches, sensors, and energy production, directed assembly for tunable mesoscale structures, and new processes and materials for energy production and storage.