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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.

13 IDE new mirrors

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

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.

SEES Multigrain Single Crystal Workshop

SEES Multigrain Single Crystal Workshop
University of Chicago
August 8-9, 2026

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APS-2025

Deadline: June 24, 2026, 2pm CDT

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Recent Publications

Science Highlights

Reaction Layer Formation on MgO in the Presence of Humidity

Jacquelyn N. Bracco, Gabriela Camacho Meneses, Omar Colón, Ke Yuan, Joanne E. Stubbs, Peter J. Eng, Anna K. Wanhala, Jeffrey D. Einkauf, Matthew G. Boebinger, Andrew G. Stack, and Juliane Weber
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces Article ASAP, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c14823

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Accurate equation of state of H2-He binary mixtures up to 5.4 GPa

Zoller, Charlie M. and Ahart, Muhtar and Duwal, Sakun and Clay, Raymond C. and Seagle, Christopher T. and Ryu, Young Jay and Tkachev, Sergey and Chariton, Stella and Prakapenka, Vitali and Hemley, Russell J., “Accurate equation of state of H2-He binary mixtures up to 5.4 GPa”, 2023, Phys Rev B, Vol 108, Iss 22, 224112, DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevB.108.224112

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Effect of Fermi surface topology change on the Kagome superconductor CeRu2 under pressure

Liangzi Deng, Melissa Gooch, Hongxiong Liu, Nilesh P. Salke, Trevor Bontke, Sen Shao, Jingyang You, Daniel J. Schulze, Ravhi Kumar, Jia-Xin Yin, Youguo Shi, Russell J. Hemley, Yuanping Feng, Guoqing Chang, Qimiao Si, Ching-Wu Chu,
Effect of Fermi surface topology change on the Kagome superconductor CeRu2 under pressure Materials Today Physics, Volume 40, 2024, 101322,
ISSN 2542-5293,

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Non-Newtonian Dynamics in Water-in-Salt Electrolytes

Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Andrei Dukhin, Young-Jay Ryu, Dongzhou Zhang, Oleg Borodin, Miguel A. González, Osamu Yamamuro, David L. Price, and Marie-Louise Saboungi, ”
Non-Newtonian Dynamics in Water-in-Salt Electrolytes”,
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 0, 15DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c03145

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High-pressure structural behavior and elastic properties of Ce2In and Ce3In: A combined in situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction and density functional theory study

Andrew C. Strzelecki, Sajib K. Barman, Samantha C. Couper, Maddury Somayazulu, Young-Jay Ryu, Emma Carlsen, Xiaofeng Guo, Curtis Kenny-Benson, Stella Chariton, Vitali Prakapenka, Garrett G. Euler, Hakim Boukhalfa, W. Adam Phelan, Paul H. Tobash, David C. Arellano, Eric D. Bauer, Sarah C. Hernandez, Jeremy N. Mitchell, Hongwu Xu,
High-pressure structural behavior and elastic properties of Ce2In and Ce3In: A combined in situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction and density functional theory study,
Intermetallics,
Volume 165, 2024, 108134, ISSN 0966-9795

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