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提供持续支持。该奖项提供了维护，操作和选择性升级这一独特的资源作为化学和材料科学界的国家用户设施。该设施支持的主要技术包括化学晶体学、表面科学、小角X射线散射和广角X射线散射。该仪器可适用于各种用户腔室，以适应专门的样品环境。该用户设施提供了一个独特的高亮度X射线源，用于研究从原子到介观尺度的液体和固体的表面，界面和体积性质。该设施处理各种各样的科学问题，从晶体结构测定到多孔膜的形成到锂电池。ChemMatCARS用户设施支持的研究活动为同步加速器技术的适应设定了步伐，以最好地服务于化学界;有助于改进材料的开发，特别是塑料，膜和纳米复合材料。该设施是各级研究人员的培训基地。

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.