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ChemMatCARS is a high-brilliance national synchrotron x-ray facility dedicated primarily to static and dynamic condensed matter chemistry and materials science.

The scientific focus of the facility includes the study of surface and interfacial properties of liquids and solids as well as their bulk structure at atomic, molecular and mesoscopic length scales with high spatial and energy resolution.

University of Chicago’s Ka Yee Lee and Luka Pocivavsek

Research puts new wrinkle in study of materials folding under pressure

Scientists at the University of Chicago and the University of Santiago in Chile have explained, for the first time, the physics that governs how thin materials at scales millions of times different in thickness make the transition from wrinkles into folds under compression.

The work was part of a study of lung membranes. The findings could apply both to the design of foldable electronics and to the production of synthetic lung surfactant for therapeutic uses.

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ChemMatCARS experimental stations include:
First Optical Enclosure (FOE) in the ID-A line
• ID-B
• ID-C
• ID-D
A Chemistry Lab is also available for users.


Experimental techniques supported by the facility include:
Liquid Surface X-ray Scattering
Solid Surface X-ray Scattering
Time-Resolved Crystallography
Micro-Crystal Diffraction
Small and Wide-angle X-ray Scattering

To get beamtime at ChemMatCARS, submit a proposal through the APS:
APS General User Proposal System

ChemMatCARS • 9700 S. Cass Avenue • Argonne, IL 60439 • Tel. (630) 252-0450 • Fax. (630) 252-0460

ASRP logo NSF logo ChemMatCARS is mainly supported by the National Science Foundation / Department of Energy under grant number CHE-0535644. The Australian Synchrotron Research Program contributes to ChemMatCARS with funding from the Australian Major National Research Facilities Program.