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ChemMatCARS a Synchrotron Facility for Chemistry and Material Science Research. T. Graber, M. Bolbat, H. Brewer, J. Canaday, D. Cookson, J. Gebhardt, B. Lin, M. Lee, M. Meron, D. Schultz, J. Shick, F. Westferro, P.J. Viccaro, The Center for Advanced Radiation Sources, The Univ. of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL 60637.

ChemMatCARS at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) is a high-brilliance synchrotron x-ray based national user facility dedicated to providing experimental infrastructure and support resources to the chemical and material science community. At the APS, undulator source brilliance is nearly three to four orders of magnitude higher than that produced by second generation sources. This superior source brilliance, a measure of the number of photons intercepted by a sample, has greatly enhanced the scope of such chemical and materials research techniques as Chemical Crystallography, Surface/Interface Science, Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS), and Wide Angle X-ray Scattering (WAXS). Additionally, it has opened up the possibility of time-dependent crystallography using laser excitation. The facility has focused on each of these techniques and is presently accepting user proposals for beam time. ChemMatCARS is also a participating partner in the SCrAPS (Service Crystallography at the APS) program which allows remote access to our micro-crystallography facility. In an effort to provide outreach to the general community, potential users without previous synchrotron experience are encouraged to submit proposals. A description of the facility and its capabilities as well as beam time availability information will be presented.

Additional information about the facility as well as a link to the proposal submission web page can be found at http://cars.uchicago.edu/chemmat/chemhome.html