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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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:

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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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Pressure-Induced Ferroelastic Transition Drives a Large Shape Change in a Ni(II) Complex Single Crystal

Boyang Fu, Ying Zhao, Yu Liu, Weilong He, Fuyang Liu, Dongzhou Zhang, Luhong Wang,Haozhe Liu, Wei Li, and Weizhao Cai, Pressure-Induced Ferroelastic Transition Drives a Large Shape Change in a Ni(II) Complex Single Crystal, . Phys. Chem. Lett. 2023, 14, XXX, 3891–3897

Biofilm Architecture in Opaque Porous Medium

Wildenschild, D., Iltis, G., Ostvar, S. (2023). Biofilm Architecture in Opaque Porous Medium. In: Médici, E.F., Otero, A.D. (eds) Album of Porous Media. Springer, Cham.

Hydrogen and Silicon Effects on Hexagonal Close Packed Fe Alloys at High Pressures: Implications for the Composition of Earth’s Inner Core

Fu, S., Chariton, S., Prakapenka, V. B., & Shim, S.-H. (2023). Hydrogen and silicon effects on hexagonal close packed Fe alloys at high pressures: Implications for the composition of Earth’s inner core. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128, e2022JB026016.

Pressure-induced insulator-to-metal transition in the van der Waals compound CoPS3

Takahiro Matsuoka, Rahul Rao, Michael A. Susner, Benjamin S. Conner, Dongzhou Zhang, and David Mandrus, Pressure-induced insulator-to-metal transition in the van der Waals compound CoPS3, (2023) Phys Rev. B 107, 165125

Early crystallization of amorphous selenium underhigh pressure studied by synchrotron XRD method

Shuhua Yuan, Luhong Wang, Fuyang Liu, Jay D Bass, Yingzhe Li, Paul A Ginsberg, Dongzhou Zhang, Vitali B Prakapenka, Sergey Tkachev and Haozhe Liu, Early crystallization of amorphous selenium under high pressure studied by synchrotron XRD method, 2023 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 35 264003, DOI 10.1088/1361-648X/acc8b0

Single-crystal X-ray diffraction of fluorapatite to 61 GPa

Rucks, Melinda J., Finkelstein, Gregory J., Zhang, Dongzhou, Dera, Przemyslaw K. and Duffy, Thomas S.. “Single-crystal X-ray diffraction of fluorapatite to 61 GPa” American Mineralogist, vol. 108, no. 4, 2023, pp. 731-737.

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Superconductivity Observed in Tantalum Polyhydride at High Pressure

May 16, 2023 | Science Highlights

X. He, C. L. Zhang, Z. W. Li, S. J. Zhang, B. S. Min, J. Zhang, K. Lu, J. F. Zhao, L. C. Shi, Y. Peng, X. C. Wang, S. M. Feng, J. Song, L. H. Wang, V. B. Prakapenka, S. Chariton, H. Z. Liu, and C. Q. Jin, Superconductivity Observed in Tantalum Polyhydride at High Pressure, 2023 Chinese Phys. Lett. 40 057404, DOI 10.1088/0256-307X/40/5/057404

The Ti-in-zircon thermometer revised: The effect of pressure on the Ti site in zircon

May 12, 2023 | Science Highlights

Laura J. Crisp, Andrew J. Berry, Antony D. Burnham, Laura A. Miller, Matthew Newville,
The Ti-in-zircon thermometer revised: The effect of pressure on the Ti site in zircon,
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023,ISSN 0016-7037

Assessing the stability fields of molecular and polymeric CO2

May 11, 2023 | Science Highlights

Goncharov, Alexander F., Elena Bykova, Maxim Bykov, Eric Edmund, Jesse S. Smith, Stella Chariton, and Vitali B. Prakapenka. “Assessing the stability fields of molecular and polymeric CO2.” (2023) Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 053604.

Inhibition of Strontium Adsorption and Desorption by Ethylenediaminetetraacetic Acid at the Barite (001)–Water Interface

May 9, 2023 | Science Highlights

Amanda Dorfman, Anna Wanhala, Peter Eng, Joanne Stubbs, Omar Colon, Malik Donetian, and Jacquelyn N. Bracco, Inhibition of Strontium Adsorption and Desorption by Ethylenediaminetetraacetic Acid at the Barite (001)–Water Interface, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C Article ASAP
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c01092

Garnet crystallization does not drive oxidation at arcs

May 4, 2023 | Science Highlights

Holycross, Megan, and Elizabeth Cottrell. “Garnet crystallization does not drive oxidation at arcs.” Science 380.6644 (2023): 506-509.

High-pressure phase of cold-compressed bulk graphite and graphene nanoplatelets

May 4, 2023 | Science Highlights

Efthimiopoulos, Ilias and Stavrou, Elissaios and Umemoto, Koichiro and Mayanna, Sathish and Torode, Antonius and Smith, Jesse S. and Chariton, Stella and Prakapenka, Vitali B. and Goncharov, Alexander F. and Wang, Yuejian, High-pressure phase of cold-compressed bulk graphite and graphene nanoplatelets, (2023) Phys RevB.107.184102, DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevB.107.184102

Eu speciation in apatite at 1 bar: An experimental study of valence-state partitioning by XANES, lattice strain, and Eu/Eu* in basaltic systems

May 1, 2023 | Science Highlights

Nicholas D. Tailby, Dustin Trail, Bruce Watson, Antonio Lanzirotti, Matthew Newville, Yanling Wang; Eu speciation in apatite at 1 bar: An experimental study of valence-state partitioning by XANES, lattice strain, and Eu/Eu* in basaltic systems. American Mineralogist 2023;; 108 (5): 789–813

Pressure-induced charge-transfer and structural transition in hexagonal multiferroic HoMnO3

Apr 25, 2023 | Science Highlights

Martin Ottesen, Emma Ehrenreich-Petersen, Camilla Hjort Kronbo, François Baudelet, Lucie Nataf, Innokenty Kantor, Mads Ry Vogel Jørgensen, Martin Bremholm, “Pressure-induced charge-transfer and structural transition in hexagonal multiferroic HoMnO[subscript 3],” Phys. Rev. B 107 (13), 134115 (2023). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.107.134115

Self-Limiting Sub-5 nm Nanodiamonds by Geochemistry-Inspired Synthesis

Apr 18, 2023 | Science Highlights

Lyu, T., Archambault, C. M., Hathaway, E., Zhu, X., King, C., Abu-Amara, L., Wang, S., Kunz, M., Kim, M. J., Cui, J., Yao, Y., Yu, T., Officer, T., Xu, M., Wang, Y., Yan, H., Self-Limiting Sub-5 nm Nanodiamonds by Geochemistry-Inspired Synthesis. Small 2023, 2300659.Self-Limiting Sub-5 nm Nanodiamonds by Geochemistry-Inspired Synthesis

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