On February 14, ChemMatCARS, a PME facility led by Professor Matt Tirrell, welcomed six students from Hoffman Estates High School for the Exemplary Student Research Program (ESRP) at Sector 15, APS, for a hands-on synchrotron experimental run working on a research project they proposed.
These students learned all about the synchrotron facilities at Argonne and focused primarily on liquid surface scattering. The high schoolers performed experiments over three shifts (24 hours) consecutively, including preparing samples, running scans, and retrieving data. They produced high-quality data that ChemMatCARS plans to use for publication in the near future.
The Daily Herald also wrote a story on the ChemMatCARS-ESRP collaboration.
News courtesy of ChemMatCARS.