The Australian Synchrotron Research Program's SCrAPS scheme facilitates the determination of crystal structures from micro-crystals, using synchrotron X-ray diffraction data collected at the ChemMatCARS facility at the Advanced Photon Source. ChemMatCARS is an ANSTO-ASRP supported sector at the Advanced Photon Source, which is located at the Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne USA.

Under the SCrAPS scheme, a visiting specialist crystallographer collects diffraction data for a number of co-applicants for ChemMatCARS beamtime. The collected data may be fully processed on site by the SCrAPS crystallographer, or subsequently distributed to other crystallographers for structure solution and refinement.

If you have crystals suitable for submission to the SCrAPS program, please fill in an application form:

sign and date the form, and send a hard copy to;

Ms Margaret Edmondson
ASRP Secretariat
Building 87
Lucas Heights Science and Technology Centre
Private Mail Bag 1
Menai, NSW, 2234
Phone: (02) 9717 9012

Additionally and importantly send an electronic copy by email to

Dr Richard F. Garrett
Richard.Garrett@ansto.gov.au
Richard.Garrett@ansto.gov.au

and to

Dr Peter Turner
p.turner@chem.usyd.edu.au
p.turner@chem.usyd.edu.au

Publications arising from structures obtained through the SCrAPS scheme must include the following acknowledgement:

Acknowledgement: Use of the ChemMatCARS Sector 15 at the Advanced Photon Source, was supported by the Australian Synchrotron Research Program, which is funded by the Commonwealth of Australia under the Major National Research Facilities Program. ChemMatCARS Sector 15 is also supported by the National Science Foundation/Department of Energy under grant numbers CHE9522232 and CHE0087817 and by the Illinois board of higher education. The Advanced Photon Source is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science, under Contract No. W-31-109-Eng-38.

The names of the crystallographers involved in the data collection and structure determination should also be included in the author list of a consequential publication.

Further information about the APS, ASRP and ChemMatCARS may be obtained by 'clicking' on the three active buttons below.

      



A poster depicting some of the structures obtained during commissioning studies in March 2001 can be obtained here:

SCANZ 2001 Poster (PDF Format 360 Kb)

Please note that the poster text can be read by 'zooming in'.

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Document details: Original Web document. Author and contact Dr R Garrett

This page was last updated on 30 January, 2004