GSECARS Developed an Efficient and Affordable N95 Mask Disinfection System

Dr. Peter Eng with help from Mike Proskey and Dr. Joanne Stubbs, developed an efficient system of disinfecting N95 masks in large quantities. This system will be invaluable for hospitals, factories, schools and offices as America re-opens during the current health crisis.

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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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Argonne Site Access Policy

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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:

GSECARS Comprehensive Overview

High-pressure/high-temperature crystallography and spectroscopy using the diamond anvil cell
High-pressure/high-temperature crystallography and imaging using the large-volume press
Powder, single crystal and interface diffraction
Inelastic x-ray scattering
X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy
X-ray fluorescence microprobe analysis
Microtomography

Future of COMPRES, GSECARS, and Synchrotron-Based Earth Science Research

Recently, NSF released a proposal solicitation for a new organization for management of synchrotron-based analytical capabilities for Earth and Environmental Sciences research and training. GSECARS is working with the larger Geoscience community to create a new and innovative organization in response to this call. More information about this effort can be found here.

https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21592/nsf21592.htm

https://synchrotron-geoscience.uchicago.edu/

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Recent Publications

A new vanadium species in black shales: Updated burial pathways and implications

Leibo Bian, Anthony Chappaz, Niels H. Schovsbo, Hamed Sanei,
A new vanadium species in black shales: Updated burial pathways and implications, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022, ISSN 0016-7037,

Pressure Engineering Promising Transparent Oxides with Large Conductivity Enhancement and Strong Thermal Stability

Liu, X., Li, M., Zhang, Q., Wang, Y., Li, N., Peng, S., Yin, T., Guo, S., Liu, Y., Yan, L. and Zhang, D., 2022. Pressure Engineering Promising Transparent Oxides with Large Conductivity Enhancement and Strong Thermal Stability. Advanced Science, p.2202973.

Raman scattering and Cr³⁺ luminescence study on the structural behavior of δ-AlOOH at high pressures

Wang, Baoyun, Tan, Dayong, Xiao, Wansheng, Ding, Xing, Li, Li and Song, Maoshuang. “Raman scattering and Cr3+ luminescence study on the structural behavior of δ-AlOOH at high pressures” American Mineralogist, vol. 107, no. 10, 2022, pp. 1858-1867.

Pressure-induced C23–C37 transition and compression behavior of orthorhombic Fe2S to Earth’s core pressures and high temperatures

Zurkowski, Claire C., Lavina, Barbara, Brauser, Nigel M., Davis, Anne H., Chariton, Stella, Tkachev, Sergey, Greenberg, Eran, Prakapenka, Vitali B. and Campbell, Andrew J.. “Pressure-induced C23–C37 transition and compression behavior of orthorhombic Fe2S to Earth’s core pressures and high temperatures” American Mineralogist, vol. 107, no. 10, 2022, pp. 1878-1885.

High-pressure deformation of metallic glass nanoparticles

Abhinav Parakh, Mehrdad T. Kiani, Anabelle Colmenares, Andrew C. Lee, Guoyin Shen, Stella Chariton, Vitali B. Prakapenka, X. Wendy Gu, High-pressure deformation of metallic glass nanoparticles, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, Volume 597, 2022, 121923,ISSN 022-3093

Record high Tc element superconductivity achieved in titanium

Changling Zhang, Xin He, Chang Liu, Zhiwen Li, Ke Lu, Sijia Zhang, Shaomin Feng, Xiancheng Wang, Yi Peng, Youwen Long, Richeng Yu, Luhong Wang, Vitali Prakapenka, Stella Chariton, Quan Li, Haozhe Liu, Changfeng Chen, Changqing Jin, Record high Tc element superconductivity achieved in titanium. Nat Commun 13, 5411 (2022).

Novel Class of Rhenium Borides Based on Hexagonal Boron Networks Interconnected by Short B2 Dumbbells

Elena Bykova, Erik Johansson, Maxim Bykov, Stella Chariton, Hongzhan Fei, Sergey V. Ovsyannikov, Alena Aslandukova, Stefan Gabel, Hendrik Holz, Benoit Merle, Björn Alling, Igor A. Abrikosov, Jesse S. Smith, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Tomoo Katsura, Natalia Dubrovinskaia, Alexander F. Goncharov, and Leonid Dubrovinsky
Chemistry of Materials Article ASAP DOI: 1021/acs.chemmater.2c00520

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GSECARS AGU Sessions

GSECARS is organizing two synchrotron relevant sessions at the 2022 AGU Conference, Dec 12-16. Click for more information.

Science Highlights

Cesium-mediated electron redistribution and electron-electron interaction in high-pressure metallic CsPbI₃

Nov 18, 2022 | Science Highlights

Ke, F., Yan, J., Niu, S. et al. Cesium-mediated electron redistribution and electron-electron interaction in high-pressure metallic CsPbI3. Nat Commun 13, 7067 (2022).

High-Pressure, High-Temperature Studies of Phase Transitions in SrOsO₃─Discovery of a Post-Perovskite

Nov 16, 2022 | Science Highlights

Camilla Hjort Kronbo, Louise Ring Jensen, Francesca Menescardi, Davide Ceresoli, Martin Bremholm, “High-pressure, low-temperature studies of phase transitions in SrRuO[subscript 3]–Absence of volume collapse,” J. Solid State Chem. 287, 121360 (2020).
DOI: 10.1016/j.jssc.2020.121360

Determination of P–V equation of state of a natural clinoptilolite using high-pressure powder synchrotron X-ray diffraction

Nov 15, 2022 | Science Highlights

Strzelecki, A.C., Chariton, S., Cockreham, C.B. et al. Determination of P–V equation of state of a natural clinoptilolite using high-pressure powder synchrotron X-ray diffraction. Phys Chem Minerals 49, 45 (2022).

Fines effect on gas flow in sandy sediments using μCT and pore networks

Nov 5, 2022 | Science Highlights

Jamal A. Hannun, Riyadh I. Al-Raoush, Zaher A. Jarrar, Khalid A. Alshibli, Jongwon Jung, Fines effect on gas flow in sandy sediments using μCT and pore networks, Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, Volume 108, 2022, 104834, ISSN 1875-5100

Structural and Electronic Transitions in Liquid FeO Under High Pressure

Oct 31, 2022 | Science Highlights

Morard, G., Antonangeli, D., Bouchet, J., Rivoldini, A., Boccato, S., Miozzi, F., et al. (2022). Structural and electronic transitions in liquid FeO under high pressure. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 127, e2022JB025117

Calcium dissolution in bridgmanite in the Earth’s deep mantle

Oct 19, 2022 | Science Highlights

Ko, B., Greenberg, E., Prakapenka, V. et al. Calcium dissolution in bridgmanite in the Earth’s deep mantle. Nature (2022).

Sealing fractures to increase underground storage security: Lessons learned from a multiscale multimodal imaging study of a syntaxial vein in a mudrock

Oct 13, 2022 | Science Highlights

Sassan Hajirezaie, Catherine A. Peters, David R. Cole, Julia M. Sheets, Julie J. Kim, Alexander M. Swift, Dustin Crandall, Michael C. Cheshire, Andrew G. Stack, Lawrence M. Anovitz, Sealing fractures to increase underground storage security: Lessons learned from a multiscale multimodal imaging study of a syntaxial vein in a mudrock,
Chemical Geology, 2022, 121164, ISSN 0009-2541

A TEM Study on a Polycrystalline Olivine Sample Deformed in a D-DIA under Mantle Conditions

Oct 2, 2022 | Science Highlights

Chen, Tao, Nadege Hilairet, and Yanbin Wang. 2022. “A TEM Study on a Polycrystalline Olivine Sample Deformed in a D-DIA under Mantle Conditions” Crystals 12, no. 10: 1396.

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New mineralogy of the deep Earth discovered

Published in Nature, researchers from ASU conducted a HP experiment at 13 IDD revealing a new mineral in the lower mantel.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05237-4

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