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GSECARS Scientists Continue to Decode Moon's Mysteries 50 Years Later

Celebrating the 50^th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, Argonne explores its early lunar research as it anticipates studies at the Advanced Photon Source of pristine moon rocks from the final lunar landing missions.

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Diffraction at 13 BMC

Jin Zhang, an assistant professor in The University of New Mexico’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, was recently awarded a NSF CAREER grant to pursue new research on the elastic anisotropy of mantle minerals and potential relationships with mantle flows. Pictured here at 13 BMC.

Dr. Jin Zhang awarded prestigious NSF Career Grant

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What Diamond Impurities Tell Us About Earth's Mantle

Pockets of water may lay deep below Earth’s surface.

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GSECARS Outreach

GSECARS hosts experiments at 13 IDE for high school students in the Exemplary Student Research Program (ESRP) representing local area high schools.

GSECARS Outreach

X-ray Diffraction Patterns from a Diamond Anvil Cell.

X-ray diffraction is the most powerful technique for crystal structure determination. From left to right, patterns from a single crystal, polychrystalline, nano-cyrstalline and amorphous crystals.

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Paris-Edinburg Press

The 180 ton Paris-Edinburg press combined with a multi-channel collimator to study structures of liquid silicates up to 12 GPa and 3000 K in 13-ID-C. The intense double focused monochromatic beam allows collection of X-ray scattering patterns with robust statistics in 5 minutes.

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13 IDE new mirrors

13 IDE new mirrors achieve focused spot sizes in both the vertical and horizontal direction of <500 nm.

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GSECARS
A national user facility for frontier research in the earth sciences using synchrotron radiation at the Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory.

GSECARS provides earth scientists with access to the high-brilliance hard x-rays from this third-generation synchrotron light source. All principal synchrotron-based analytical techniques in demand by earth scientists are being brought to bear on earth science problems.

SEES Multigrain Single Crystal Workshop

University of Chicago
August 8-9, 2026

Advanced Experimental, Analytical and Theoretical Approaches in Probing Planetary Interiors (MR001), AGU, Session #280698

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Recent Publications

High-Pressure Investigation of the I–N System: Discovery of the Nitric Ozonide [N3]3–(“Ozonitride”) Species and Multicenter Bonding in Iodine Frameworks

James Spender, Linda Reitz, Umbertoluca Ranieri, Akun Liang, Sarah Bolton, Qian Zhang, Ryan Stewart McWilliams, Bernhard Massani, Stella Chariton,...

Pressure-Induced Metal-like Transport and Magnetoresistance in a Au2+–Au3+ Halide Perovskite

Deschene, Christina R., Armin Eghdami, Yijun Yu, Alex Smith, Zhenxian Liu, Frederick P. Marlton, Wendy L. Mao, Harold Y. Hwang, Jeffrey B. Neaton,...

Calcium Solubility of Bridgmanite in Subducted Basalt in Earth’s Lower Mantle

Zhang, C., Yoshino, T., El Ghazaoui, E., Chariton, S., Prakapenka, V. B., Li, L., et al. (2026). Calcium solubility of bridgmanite in subducted...

Laser-heated diamond anvil cell synthesis and recovery of metastable MnSb2 and YbZn2 for post-synthesis transport studies

Huyan, S., R. F. S. Penacchio, D. Zhang, Z. Li, S. L. Morelhão, R. A. Ribeiro, P. C. Canfield, and S. L. Bud’ko. "Laser-heated diamond anvil cell...

Synthesis of hafnium superhydrides at megabar pressures

Weizhao Cai, Ying Sun, Vasily S. Minkov, Rachel Husband, Stella Chariton, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Yanming Ma, Mikhail I. Eremets, "Synthesis of...

Redox–salinity coupling regulates arsenic release and hysteresis in coastal wetland soils under sea-level rise

Joshua J. LeMonte, Layla N. Izadi, Jörg Rinklebe, Ryan Tappero, Donald L. Sparks, "Redox-salinity coupling regulates arsenic release and hysteresis...

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Science Highlights

High-Pressure Investigation of the I–N System: Discovery of the Nitric Ozonide [N3]3–(“Ozonitride”) Species and Multicenter Bonding in Iodine Frameworks

Jul 17, 2026

James Spender, Linda Reitz, Umbertoluca Ranieri, Akun Liang, Sarah Bolton, Qian Zhang, Ryan Stewart McWilliams, Bernhard Massani, Stella Chariton,...

Pressure-Induced Metal-like Transport and Magnetoresistance in a Au2+–Au3+ Halide Perovskite

Jul 17, 2026

Deschene, Christina R., Armin Eghdami, Yijun Yu, Alex Smith, Zhenxian Liu, Frederick P. Marlton, Wendy L. Mao, Harold Y. Hwang, Jeffrey B. Neaton,...

Calcium Solubility of Bridgmanite in Subducted Basalt in Earth’s Lower Mantle

Jul 13, 2026

Zhang, C., Yoshino, T., El Ghazaoui, E., Chariton, S., Prakapenka, V. B., Li, L., et al. (2026). Calcium solubility of bridgmanite in subducted...

Laser-heated diamond anvil cell synthesis and recovery of metastable MnSb2 and YbZn2 for post-synthesis transport studies

Jul 13, 2026

Huyan, S., R. F. S. Penacchio, D. Zhang, Z. Li, S. L. Morelhão, R. A. Ribeiro, P. C. Canfield, and S. L. Bud’ko. "Laser-heated diamond anvil cell...

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Latest Happenings at GSECARS

APS accepting Rapid Access proposals for 2026-3 starting on Aug 9, 2026.

GSECARS

GSECARS Scientists Continue to Decode Moon's Mysteries 50 Years Later

Diffraction at 13 BMC

What Diamond Impurities Tell Us About Earth's Mantle

GSECARS Outreach

X-ray Diffraction Patterns from a Diamond Anvil Cell.

Paris-Edinburg Press

13 IDE new mirrors

GSECARS
A national user facility for frontier research in the earth sciences using synchrotron radiation at the Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory.

SEES Multigrain Single Crystal Workshop

Advanced Experimental, Analytical and Theoretical Approaches in Probing Planetary Interiors (MR001), AGU, Session #280698

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Research Techniques

Quick Links

Upcoming Events

Recent Publications

High-Pressure Investigation of the I–N System: Discovery of the Nitric Ozonide [N3]3–(“Ozonitride”) Species and Multicenter Bonding in Iodine Frameworks

Pressure-Induced Metal-like Transport and Magnetoresistance in a Au2+–Au3+ Halide Perovskite

Calcium Solubility of Bridgmanite in Subducted Basalt in Earth’s Lower Mantle

Laser-heated diamond anvil cell synthesis and recovery of metastable MnSb2 and YbZn2 for post-synthesis transport studies

Synthesis of hafnium superhydrides at megabar pressures

Redox–salinity coupling regulates arsenic release and hysteresis in coastal wetland soils under sea-level rise

Science Highlights

High-Pressure Investigation of the I–N System: Discovery of the Nitric Ozonide [N3]3–(“Ozonitride”) Species and Multicenter Bonding in Iodine Frameworks

Pressure-Induced Metal-like Transport and Magnetoresistance in a Au2+–Au3+ Halide Perovskite

Calcium Solubility of Bridgmanite in Subducted Basalt in Earth’s Lower Mantle

Laser-heated diamond anvil cell synthesis and recovery of metastable MnSb2 and YbZn2 for post-synthesis transport studies

Synthesis of hafnium superhydrides at megabar pressures

Redox–salinity coupling regulates arsenic release and hysteresis in coastal wetland soils under sea-level rise

Kingsport Limestone as a CO2 Caprock: Performance under Prolonged Laboratory scCO₂–Brine Exposure

Effect of Si on Mg alloying in metallic iron at high pressures

Critical structural parameter determining magnetic phases in the F e 2 M o 3 O 8 altermagnet system

Interplay of Surface Energy and Rheology in Biopolymer Soil Enhancement

Ultrafast X-ray Pump-Probe Investigation of the Formation Dynamics of SiV Centers in Diamond

Latest Happenings at GSECARS

Sean Shieh at 13 BMC

Scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory at 13 BMD

Ben Gilbert and Redmond Coleman at 13 IDE

CARS Director Peter Eng hosted a tour of GSECARS for the SXNS18 Conference, July 2026

Natasha Morgan-Witts and Noah Brown at 13 BMD

GSECARS

GSECARS A national user facility for frontier research in the earth sciences using synchrotron radiation at the Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory.

SEES Multigrain Single Crystal Workshop

Advanced Experimental, Analytical and Theoretical Approaches in Probing Planetary Interiors (MR001), AGU, Session #280698

Research Techniques

Quick Links

Upcoming Events

Recent Publications

Science Highlights

Latest Happenings at GSECARS

GSECARS
A national user facility for frontier research in the earth sciences using synchrotron radiation at the Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory.