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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Magnetic collapse and low conductivity of Fe3N in the deep interiors of Earth-like planets
Yukai Zhuang, Jin Liu, Chaojia Lv, Liangxu Xu, Wenli Bi, Qingyang Hu, Dongzhou Zhang, Gaston Garbarino, Shengcai Zhu, Youjun Zhang; Magnetic...
Pressure induced structural and electronic band transition in CsPbBr3
Dongzhou Zhang, Sagarmoy Mandal, Duck Young Chung, Jingui Xu, Nannan Shan, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis & Ming Chen, Pressure induced structural and...
Evidence of non-isentropic release from high residual temperatures in shocked metals measured with ultrafast x-ray diffraction
Hong Yang, Michael R. Armstrong, Ryan A. Austin, Harry B. Radousky, Akshat Hetal Patel, Tiwei Wei, Alexander F. Goncharov, Wendy L. Mao, Eduardo...
Pressure-induced shape and color changes and mechanical-stimulation-driven reverse transition in a one-dimensional hybrid halide
Die Zhang, Boyang Fu, Weilong He, Hengtao Li, Fuyang Liu, Luhong Wang, Haozhe Liu, Liujiang Zhou & Weizhao Cai, “ Pressure-induced shape and...
Volatiles and Redox Along the East African Rift
Brounce, M., Scoggins, S., Fischer, T. P., Ford, H., & Byrnes, J. (2024). Volatiles and redox along the East African Rift. Geochemistry,...
Quantifying Structural Polarization by Continuous Regulation of Lone-Pair Electron Expression in Molecular Crystals
Kejun Bu, Xin Feng, Dong Wang, Tonghuan Fu, Yiran Ma, Songhao Guo, Hui Luo, Yang Ding, Tianyou Zhai, and Xujie Lü, Quantifying Structural...
Science Highlights
High-pressure phase of cold-compressed bulk graphite and graphene nanoplatelets
Efthimiopoulos, Ilias and Stavrou, Elissaios and Umemoto, Koichiro and Mayanna, Sathish and Torode, Antonius and Smith, Jesse S. and Chariton, Stella and Prakapenka, Vitali B. and Goncharov, Alexander F. and Wang, Yuejian, High-pressure phase of cold-compressed bulk graphite and graphene nanoplatelets, (2023) Phys RevB.107.184102, DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevB.107.184102
Eu speciation in apatite at 1 bar: An experimental study of valence-state partitioning by XANES, lattice strain, and Eu/Eu* in basaltic systems
Nicholas D. Tailby, Dustin Trail, Bruce Watson, Antonio Lanzirotti, Matthew Newville, Yanling Wang; Eu speciation in apatite at 1 bar: An experimental study of valence-state partitioning by XANES, lattice strain, and Eu/Eu* in basaltic systems. American Mineralogist 2023;; 108 (5): 789–813
Factors controlling tungsten mobility in W-Cu skarn tailings
B.G. Kazamel, H.E. Jamieson, M.I. Leybourne, H. Falck,
Factors controlling tungsten mobility in WCu skarn tailings, Chemical Geology,
Volume 630, 2023, 121487,
ISSN 0009-2541.
Pressure-induced charge-transfer and structural transition in hexagonal multiferroic HoMnO3
Martin Ottesen, Emma Ehrenreich-Petersen, Camilla Hjort Kronbo, François Baudelet, Lucie Nataf, Innokenty Kantor, Mads Ry Vogel Jørgensen, Martin Bremholm, “Pressure-induced charge-transfer and structural transition in hexagonal multiferroic HoMnO3,” Phys. Rev. B 107 (13), 134115 (2023). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.107.134115
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
Pressure-Induced Ferroelastic Transition Drives a Large Shape Change in a Ni(II) Complex Single Crystal
Boyang Fu, Ying Zhao, Yu Liu, Weilong He, Fuyang Liu, Dongzhou Zhang, Luhong Wang,Haozhe Liu, Wei Li, and Weizhao Cai, Pressure-Induced Ferroelastic Transition Drives a Large Shape Change in a Ni(II) Complex Single Crystal, . Phys. Chem. Lett. 2023, 14, XXX, 3891–3897
Biofilm Architecture in Opaque Porous Medium
Wildenschild, D., Iltis, G., Ostvar, S. (2023). Biofilm Architecture in Opaque Porous Medium. In: Médici, E.F., Otero, A.D. (eds) Album of Porous Media. Springer, Cham.
Hydrogen and Silicon Effects on Hexagonal Close Packed Fe Alloys at High Pressures: Implications for the Composition of Earth’s Inner Core
Fu, S., Chariton, S., Prakapenka, V. B., & Shim, S.-H. (2023). Hydrogen and silicon effects on hexagonal close packed Fe alloys at high pressures: Implications for the composition of Earth’s inner core. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128, e2022JB026016.
Pressure-induced insulator-to-metal transition in the van der Waals compound CoPS3
Takahiro Matsuoka, Rahul Rao, Michael A. Susner, Benjamin S. Conner, Dongzhou Zhang, and David Mandrus, Pressure-induced insulator-to-metal transition in the van der Waals compound CoPS3, (2023) Phys Rev. B 107, 165125
Early crystallization of amorphous selenium underhigh pressure studied by synchrotron XRD method
Shuhua Yuan, Luhong Wang, Fuyang Liu, Jay D Bass, Yingzhe Li, Paul A Ginsberg, Dongzhou Zhang, Vitali B Prakapenka, Sergey Tkachev and Haozhe Liu, Early crystallization of amorphous selenium under high pressure studied by synchrotron XRD method, 2023 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 35 264003, DOI 10.1088/1361-648X/acc8b0
Single-crystal X-ray diffraction of fluorapatite to 61 GPa
Rucks, Melinda J., Finkelstein, Gregory J., Zhang, Dongzhou, Dera, Przemyslaw K. and Duffy, Thomas S.. “Single-crystal X-ray diffraction of fluorapatite to 61 GPa” American Mineralogist, vol. 108, no. 4, 2023, pp. 731-737.
Latest Happenings at GSECARS
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Rutgers and IIT Researchers at 13 IDE, June 2025
Nathan Yee (Rutgers), Arictan Coskun (IIT), and Jacob Hickey (Rutgers) prep...
Barbara Lavina, UofC/ANL, participated in the 8th Italian Research Day in the World
Barbara Lavina, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory,...
University of Maryland researchers at GSECARS, June 2025
Tommaso Mandolini and Travis Hager (University of Maryland) perform...
UT Austin Researcher at 13 BMD, June 2025
Pu Xiao (The University of Texas at Austin) conducts research on elasticity...
Studying Hydrides in Hydrogen-rich Exoplanets at 13 BMD, June 2025
Taehyun Kim (Arizona State University) studied stability, crystal structure,...







