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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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13 IDE new mirrors

13 IDE new mirrors achieve focused spot sizes in both the vertical and horizontal direction of <500 nm.

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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.

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Structure and Superconductivity of Hydrogenated TiZr Alloys UnderHigh Pressure

Bin Li, Young Jay Ryu, Dongzhou Zhang, Dohyun Kim, Sooyeon Hwang, and Jaeyong Kim, Structure and Superconductivity of Hydrogenated TiZr Alloys Under...

Thermoelastic Properties of Iron‐Rich Ringwoodite and the Deep Mantle Aerotherm of Mars

Wang, F., Bausch, H. J., Gardner, L. L.,Zhang, D., Armstrong, K., Bell, A. S., et al.(2025). Thermoelastic properties of iron‐rich ringwoodite and...

Helium Incorporation into Scandium Fluoride, a Model Negative Thermal Expansion Material

Shangye Ma, Samuel J. Baxter, Changyong Park, Stella Chariton, Antonio M. dos Santos, Jamie J. Molaison, and Angus P. Wilkinson, Helium...

Double-core nanothread formation from α-furil via a pressure-induced planarization pathway

Dunning, Samuel G., Anirudh Hari, Li Zhu, Bo Chen, George D. Cody, Sebastiano Romi, Dongzhou Zhang, and Timothy A. Strobel. "Double-core nanothread...

High Pressure Synthesis of Pr2O5 – A Unique Lanthanoid(IV) Oxide Peroxide

N. T. Flosbach, L. Brüning, P. L. Jurzick, E. Bykova, M. Ekholm, I. A. Abrikosov, M. Amirabbasi, M. Mezouar, B. Wehinger, N. Giordano, T. Fedotenko,...

Numerical Investigation Into Mechanical Behavior of Metastable Olivine During Phase Transformation: Implications for Deep‐Focus Earthquakes

Sindhusuta, S., Chi, S.‐W., Foster, C., Officer, T., & Wang, Y. (2025). Numerical investigation into mechanical behavior of metastable olivine...

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High Sodium Solubility in Magnesiowüstite in Iron‐RichDeep Lower Mantle

May 16, 2024

Dorfman, S. M., Hsu, H., Nabiei, F., Cantoni, M., Badro, J., & Prakapenka, V. (2024). High sodium solubility in magnesiowüstite in iron-rich...

High-Pressure Synthesis of Ultra-Incompressible, Hard and Superconducting Tungsten Nitrides

May 15, 2024

A. Liang, I. Osmond, G. Krach, L.-T. Shi, L. Brüning, U. Ranieri, J. Spender, F. Tasnadi, B. Massani, C. R. Stevens, R. S. McWilliams, E. L....

Double Superconducting Dome of Quasi Two-Dimensional TaS2 in Non-Centrosymmetric van der Waals Heterostructure

May 13, 2024

Limin Yan, Kejun Bu, Zhongyang Li, Zihan Zhang, Wei Xia, Mingtao Li, Nana Li, Jiayi Guan, Xuqiang Liu, Jiahao Ning, Dongzhou Zhang, Yanfeng Guo, Xin...

Pressure-induced structural crossover in a Zr65Ni35 metallic glass

May 13, 2024

Xu, Dazhe and Lou, Hongbo and Peng, Di and Xing, Zhenfang and Lan, Fujun and Yin, Ziliang and Zhang, Fei and Xiong, Lianghua and Zeng, Zhidan and...

Pressure-induced Emission in 0D Metal Halide (EATMP)SbBr5 by Regulating Exciton–Phonon Coupling

May 11, 2024

Jiayuan Liang, Xin Mi, Songhao Guo, Hui Luo, Kejun Bu, Tonghuan Fu, Menglin Duan, Yang Wang, Qingyang Hu, Rengen Xiong, Peng Qin, Fuqiang Huang,...

High-pressure Phase Transition of Olivine-type Mg2GeO4 to a Metastable Forsterite-III type Structure and their Equation of States

May 9, 2024

R. Valli Divya, Gulshan Kumar, R. E. Cohen, Sally J. Tracy, Yue Meng, Stella Chariton, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Rajkrishna Dutta; High-pressure Phase...

Microtomographic Measurements of Total Air‐WaterInterfacial Areas for Soils

May 7, 2024

Brusseau, M. L., Araujo, J. B., Narter, M., Marble, J. C., & Bigler, M. (2024). Microtomographic measurements of total air‐water interfacial...

Viscosity Measurements at High Pressures: A Critical Appraisal of Corrections to Stokes’ Law

May 2, 2024

Ashley, A. W., Mookherjee, M., Xu, M., Yu, T., Manthilake, G., & Wang, Y. (2024). Viscosity measurements at high pressures: A critical appraisal...

Reassessment of Birch’s Law on hcp-Fe From Ultrasonic Sound Velocity Measurement and Implications on the Velocity Profiles of Earth’s Inner Core

May 2, 2024

Wang, S., Chen, S., Qi, X., Xu, M., Yu, T., Wang, Y., & Li, B. (2024). Reassessment of Birch's law on hcp-Fe from ultrasonic sound velocity...

Single-crystal X-ray diffraction on the structure of (Al,Fe)-bearing bridgmanite in the lower mantle

May 1, 2024

Suyu Fu, Stella Chariton, Yanyao Zhang, Takuo Okuchi, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Jung-Fu Lin; Single-crystal X-ray diffraction on the structure of...

Composition and metabolism of microbial communities in soil pores

Apr 27, 2024

Li, Z., Kravchenko, A.N., Cupples, A. et al. Composition and metabolism of microbial communities in soil pores. Nat Commun 15, 3578 (2024).

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GSECARS

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

Diffraction at 13 BMC

What Diamond Impurities Tell Us About Earth's Mantle

GSECARS Outreach

X-ray Diffraction Patterns from a Diamond Anvil Cell.

Paris-Edinburg Press

13 IDE new mirrors

GSECARS
A national user facility for frontier research in the earth sciences using synchrotron radiation at the Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory.

Research Techniques

Quick Links

Upcoming Events

Recent Publications

Structure and Superconductivity of Hydrogenated TiZr Alloys UnderHigh Pressure

Thermoelastic Properties of Iron‐Rich Ringwoodite and the Deep Mantle Aerotherm of Mars

Helium Incorporation into Scandium Fluoride, a Model Negative Thermal Expansion Material

Double-core nanothread formation from α-furil via a pressure-induced planarization pathway

High Pressure Synthesis of Pr2O5 – A Unique Lanthanoid(IV) Oxide Peroxide

Numerical Investigation Into Mechanical Behavior of Metastable Olivine During Phase Transformation: Implications for Deep‐Focus Earthquakes

Science Highlights

High Sodium Solubility in Magnesiowüstite in Iron‐RichDeep Lower Mantle

High-Pressure Synthesis of Ultra-Incompressible, Hard and Superconducting Tungsten Nitrides

Double Superconducting Dome of Quasi Two-Dimensional TaS2 in Non-Centrosymmetric van der Waals Heterostructure

Pressure-induced structural crossover in a Zr65Ni35 metallic glass

Pressure-induced Emission in 0D Metal Halide (EATMP)SbBr5 by Regulating Exciton–Phonon Coupling

High-pressure Phase Transition of Olivine-type Mg2GeO4 to a Metastable Forsterite-III type Structure and their Equation of States

Microtomographic Measurements of Total Air‐WaterInterfacial Areas for Soils

Viscosity Measurements at High Pressures: A Critical Appraisal of Corrections to Stokes’ Law

Reassessment of Birch’s Law on hcp-Fe From Ultrasonic Sound Velocity Measurement and Implications on the Velocity Profiles of Earth’s Inner Core

Single-crystal X-ray diffraction on the structure of (Al,Fe)-bearing bridgmanite in the lower mantle

Composition and metabolism of microbial communities in soil pores

Latest Happenings at GSECARS

Jacob Fritsky and Huifei Zhai at 13BMC

Juyong Bak, Anna Thomas and Athena Nghiem at 13IDE

GSECARS beamline scientist Yanbin Wang presented a talk at AIRAPT 2025.

Tony Yu (University of Chicago) setting up at 13 IDC

Mark Rivers talk, Converting the GSECARS APS Beamlines from VME

GSECARS

GSECARS A national user facility for frontier research in the earth sciences using synchrotron radiation at the Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory.

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Latest Happenings at GSECARS

GSECARS
A national user facility for frontier research in the earth sciences using synchrotron radiation at the Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory.