News and Announcements
GSECARS hosts ESRP students at 13 IDE
Malgorzata Korbas (ANL) and GSE staff scientists Matt Newville and Tony Lanzirotti worked with students from St. Charles High School in the ANL Exemplary Student Research Program (ESRP) studying the uptake of heavy metals in eisenia fetida (earthworms) at 13 IDE, ...
Ryan Murphy at 13 BMC
Ryan Murphy (MIT) investigates tuning the spin transition pressure of altermagnetic MnTe with chemical doping, 13 BMC, April 2026.
Alex Nicolellis at GSE
GSE welcomes Alex Nicolellis as our new Programming Analyst.
Yuichiro Mori at 13 IDD
Yuichiro Mori (Yale University) studies the pressure dependence on the viscosity and electrical conductivity of KCl and its implications for the Super-Earth rheology, 13 IDD, March 2026.
Yanbin Wang at 13 BMD
Yanbin Wang (University of Chicago) conducts an in-situ deformation and acoustic emission study of harzburgite at high pressure and temperature, 13 BMD, March 2026.
Wenhao Su at 13 BMC
Wenhao Su (Texas A&M University) studies the high pressure-temperature (P-T) equation of state and stability fields of cubic and tetragonal Ti, Al, Fe, Mg-bearing Ca-pv under lower mantle conditions, 13 BMC, March 2026.
Kaden Wheeler at 13 IDD
Kaden Wheeler (Yale University) conducts and X-ray diffraction study of superconducting H3S in a graphene-confined composite system under high pressure, 13 IDD, March 2026.
Wenhao Su, Jiasen Hu and Jin Zhang at 13 BMC
Wenhao Su, Jiasen Hu and Jin Zhang (Texas A&M University) study pressure-induced spin transition of iron and effect on the equation of state in Fe-bearing CaSiO3, 13 BMC, March 2026.
GSECARS user Tianqi Xie presented a TEDx Talk
GSECARS user Tianqi Xie (University of Saskatchewan) presented a TEDx Talk , Why did the asteroid kill the dinosaurs, but not us? , at University of Saskatchewan, describing her work at GSECARS, March 29, 2026. Why did the asteroid kill the dinosaurs, but not us? |...
Megan Ryan, Travis Hager, Wenlu Zhu and Mark Rivers at 13 BMD
Megan Ryan, Travis Hager, Wenlu Zhu (University of Maryland) and Mark Rivers (University of Chicago) conduct an experimental Investigation of chemical-mechanical feedback during mineral carbonation, 13 BMD, March 2026.
APS Highlights:
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
Solid-State Pathway Control via Reaction-Directing Heteroatoms: Ordered Pyridazine Nanothreads through Selective Cycloaddition
Samuel G. Dunning, Li Zhu, Bo Chen, Stella Chariton, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Maddury Somayazulu, Timothy A. Strobel, “Solid-State Pathway Control via Reaction-Directing Heteroatoms: Ordered Pyridazine Nanothreads through Selective Cycloaddition,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 144 (5), 2073-2078 (2022). DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c12143
GSECARS Virtual Tour
GSE beamline scientist Tony Lanzirotti gave a virtual tour to Prof. Zach Dowdy and his science journalism class from Stony Brook University showing the students how synchrotron radiation is used in earth and planetary science research.
ESRP at 13 IDE, Mundelein HS
Students from Mundelein High School participated in the ANL Exemplary Student Research Program conducting an experiment at 13 IDE, “Using X-Ray Fluorescence and Absorption Spectroscopy to Analyze The Relationship Between Particulate Matter And The Environment Through Factors Of Metal Type And Particle Size”.
ESRP at 13 IDE, UofC Lab School
Students from The University of Chicago Lab HS participated in the ANL Exemplary Student Research Program conducting an experiment at 13 IDE, “Using particulates on honeybees and in their byproducts as a measure of local pollution”.