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.
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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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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

SEES: Synchrotron Earth and Environmental Science

On September 1, 2023 the National Science Foundation announced a $35 million award to the University of Chicago to operate SEES: Synchrotron Earth and Environmental Science.  This includes funding for the GSECARS beamlines, the beamlines formerly funded by COMPRES, and new support for beamlines highlighting applications in environmental science, low temperature geochemistry, and rock deformation studies. More information can be found here:

https://new.nsf.gov/news/nsf-announces-new-award-synchrotron-earth

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

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Recent Publications

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GSECARS is organizing two synchrotron relevant sessions at the 2023 AGU Conference, Dec 11-15.  Please consider attending.
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Science Highlights

Structure of the Bastnäsite (001) Surface by Crystal Truncation Rod X-ray Diffraction and Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics

Oct 24, 2023 |

Anna K. Wanhala, Luke D. Gibson, Joanne E. Stubbs, Radu Custelcean, Cole Hexel, Peter J. Eng, Vyacheslav S. Bryantsev, and Andrew G. Stack, Structure of the Bastnäsite (001) Surface by Crystal Truncation Rod X-ray Diffraction and Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics: Implications for Separations of a Rare Earth Ore Mineral, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C Article ASAP

Pressure-Modulated Anomalous Organic–Inorganic Interactions Enhance Structural Distortion and Second-Harmonic Generation in MHyPbBr3 Perovskite

Oct 20, 2023 |

Yuhong Mao, Songhao Guo, Xu Huang, Kejun Bu, Zhongyang Li, Phuong Q. H. Nguyen, Gang Liu, Qingyang Hu, Dongzhou Zhang, Yongping Fu, Wenge Yang, and Xujie Lü, Pressure-Modulated Anomalous Organic–Inorganic Interactions Enhance Structural Distortion and Second-Harmonic Generation in MHyPbBr3 Perovskite, Journal of the American Chemical Society 2023 145 (43), 23842-23848DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c09375

Latest Happenings at GSECARS

2023 NXS School

2023 NXS School

GSECARS beamline scientist Stella Chariton presented, “High Pressure Measurement with X-rays” at the 2023 NXS School.

Intern Jeremy Zhao

Intern Jeremy Zhao

Intern Jeremy Zhao worked on Transformational Faulting for Deep-focus Earthquakes with GSE staff Yanbin Wang and Tim Officer. Jeremy will attend U Chicago this fall.

GSECARS welcomes summer student

GSECARS welcomes summer student

GSECARS summer student Brian Nicolellis, an upcoming senior at IL State majoring in computer science, will be working with the CARS IT Group under Charlie Smith and Chris Skordas.