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.

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

Celebrating the 50th 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.

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

What Diamond Impurities Tell Us About Earth's Mantle

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

GSECARS Outreach

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

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.

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.

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:
  • 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/

Upcoming Events

Apr
17
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all-day APS Storage Ring Upgrade
APS Storage Ring Upgrade
Apr 17 2023 – Apr 1 2024 all-day
APS Storage Ring Upgrade, year long shutdown https://www.aps.anl.gov/APS-Upgrade
Jun
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10:00 am PSC All Hands Meeting
PSC All Hands Meeting
Jun 14 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
PSC All Hands Meeting Wednesday, June 14, 2023 10:00 AM-11:00 AM Join ZoomGov Meeting https://argonne.zoomgov.com/j/1611638451?pwd=cE9XZDZDMU1JemhRTklVQkFub0IwUT09 Meeting ID: 161 163 8451 Passcode: 802531 One tap mobile  
Jul
25
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8:00 am ISRD-RCN Workshop
ISRD-RCN Workshop
Jul 25 @ 8:00 am – Jul 27 @ 5:00 pm
In-situ Rock Deformation (ISRD) RCN Workshop Exploring Dynamic Properties of Earth and Planetary Materials Using Neutron Scattering and Imaging, will be held on July 25-27, 2023 at The Hotel UMD. July 24 (Monday): Check-in at The Hotel UMD after[...]
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Aug
6
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all-day NXS School 2023
NXS School 2023
Aug 6 all-day
25th National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering The 25th National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering (NXS) will take place from August 6-18, 2023, jointly conducted by Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).[...]
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23
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10:00 am PSC All Hands Meeting
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Recent Publications

Science Highlights

Superconductivity Observed in Tantalum Polyhydride at High Pressure

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

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

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

Latest Happenings at GSECARS

GSECARS welcomes summer student

GSECARS welcomes summer student

GSECARS welcomes summer student Brian Nicolellis, an upcoming senior at IL State majoring in computer science. He will be working with the CARS IT Group.

402 Lower Gallery refreshments and celebration

Monday, April 17 is a major milestone in the history of the APS. After 28 years of collaboration with the global science community on groundbreaking and impactful research, we are closing our X-ray beamlines and bidding a temporary farewell to our external users. When we welcome those scientific colleagues back in 2024, it will be to a brand-new APS, with new capabilities to explore.

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