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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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Uranium oxidation states in zircon and other accessory phases

Shane K. Houchin, François L.H. Tissot, Mauricio Ibañez-Mejia, Matthew Newville, Antonio Lanzirotti, Frank Pavia, George Rossman, Uranium oxidation...

Strength, plasticity, and spin transition of Fe-N alloys in planetary cores

Allison Pease, Jiachao Liu, Mingda Lv, Yuming Xiao, Katherine Armstrong, Dmitry Popov, Lowell Miyagi, Susannah M. Dorfman, Strength, plasticity, and...

Formation of zinc carbonate phases on dissolving calcite, aragonite, and vaterite in acidic aqueous solutions

YoungJae Kim, Sang Soo Lee, Bektur Abdilla, Viktor Nikitin, Neil C. Sturchio, Paul Fenter, Formation of zinc carbonate phases on dissolving calcite,...

Pressure–volume equation of state of Fe18Pt82

Meryem Berrada, Siheng Wang, Bin Chen, Vitali Prakapenka, Stella Chariton, Marc M. Hirschmann & Jie Li Pressure–volume equation of state of...

A Sodium Germanosilicide with Unusual Network Topology

Julia-Maria Hübner, Thomas B. Shiell, Piotr A. Guńka, Shuo Tao, Li Zhu, Mads Fonager Hansen, Emma S. Bullock, Stella Chariton, Vitali B. Prakapenka,...

Multicaloric Cryocooling Using Heavy Rare-Earth Free La(Fe,Si)13-Based Compounds

Benedikt Beckmann, Lukas Pfeuffer, Johanna Lill, Benedikt Eggert, David Koch, Barbara Lavina, Jiyong Zhao, Thomas Toellner, Esen E. Alp, Katharina...

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Single-crystal elasticity of (Al,Fe)-bearing bridgmanite up to 82 GPa

Apr 3, 2023

Fu, Suyu, Zhang, Yanyao, Okuchi, Takuo and Lin, Jung-Fu. “Single-crystal elasticity of (Al,Fe)-bearing bridgmanite up to 82 GPa” American Mineralogist, vol. 108, no. 4, 2023, pp. 719-730.

Equation of state and spin crossover of (Al, Fe)-phase H

Mar 25, 2023

Strozewski, B., Buchen, J., Sturhahn, W., Ishii, T., Ohira, I., Chariton, S., et al. (2023). Equation of state and spin crossover of (Al, Fe)-phase H. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128, e2022JB026291.

Superconductivity above 70 K observed in lutetium polyhydrides

Mar 21, 2023

Zhiwen Li, Xin He, Changling Zhang, Ke Lu, Baosen Min, Jun Zhang, Sijia Zhang, Jianfa Zhao, Luchuan Shi, Yi Peng, Shaomin Feng, Zheng Deng, Jing Song, Qingqing Liu, Xiancheng Wang, Richeng Yu, Luhong Wang, Yingzhe Li, Jay D. Bass, Vitali Prakapenka, Stella Chariton, Haozhe Liu & Changqing Jin. Superconductivity above 70 K observed in lutetium polyhydrides. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 66, 267411 (2023).

Thermal Equation of State of Natural F-Rich Topaz up to 29 GPa and 750 K

Mar 18, 2023

Yungui Liu, Xiang Li, Haipeng Song, Jingui Xu, Dongzhou Zhang, Junfeng Zhang & Xiang Wu, Thermal Equation of State of Natural F-Rich Topaz up to 29 GPa and 750 K. J. Earth Sci. (2023).

Dual origin of ferropericlase inclusions within super-deep diamonds

Mar 7, 2023

Sofia Lorenzon, Michelle Wenz, Paolo Nimis, Steven D. Jacobsen, Leonardo Pasqualetto, Martha G. Pamato, Davide Novella, Dongzhou Zhang, Chiara Anzolini, Margo Regier, Thomas Stachel, D. Graham Pearson, Jeffrey W. Harris, Fabrizio Nestola,
Dual origin of ferropericlase inclusions within super-deep diamonds, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 608, 2023,118081, ISSN 0012-821X

Modulating Charge-Density Wave Order and Superconductivity from Two Alternative Stacked Monolayers in a Bulk 4Hb-TaSe₂ Heterostructure via Pressure

Mar 6, 2023

Limin Yan, Chi Ding, Mingtao Li, Ruilian Tang, Wan Chen, Bingyan Liu, Kejun Bu, Tianheng Huang, Dongzhe Dai, Xiaobo Jin, Xiaofan Yang, Erjian Cheng, Nana Li, Qian Zhang, Fengliang Liu, Xuqiang Liu, Dongzhou Zhang, Shuailing Ma, Qiang Tao, Pinwen Zhu, Shiyan Li, Xujie Lü, Jian Sun, Xin Wang, and Wenge Yang, Nano Letters Article ASAP, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c04385

Lime slurry treatment of soils developing on abandoned coal mine spoil: Linking contaminant transport from the micrometer to pedon-scale

Mar 4, 2023

Daniel L. Wood, Kortney A. Cole, Elizabeth M. Herndon, David M. Singer, Lime slurry treatment of soils developing on abandoned coal mine spoil: Linking contaminant transport from the micrometer to pedon-scale, Applied Geochemistry, Volume 151, 2023, 105617,ISSN 0883-2927,

Superstoichiometric Alloying of H and Close-Packed Fe-Ni Metal Under High Pressures: Implications for Hydrogen Storage in Planetary Core

Mar 3, 2023

Piet, H., Chizmeshya, A., Chen, B., Chariton, S., Greenberg, E., Prakapenka, V., et al. (2023). Superstoichiometric alloying of H and close-packed Fe-Ni metal under high pressures: Implications for hydrogen storage in planetary core. Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2022GL101155.

Synchrotron X-ray diffraction of pyrolusite (MnO₂) and rutile (TiO₂) during heating to ∼1000 °C

Feb 24, 2023

Dong Youn Chung, Peter J. Heaney, Jeffrey E. Post, Joanne E. Stubbs, Peter J. Eng,
Synchrotron X-ray diffraction of pyrolusite (MnO2) and rutile (TiO2) during heating to ∼1000 °C,
Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids,
Volume 177, 2023, 111284,
ISSN 0022-3697

Local structural investigation of non-crystalline materials at high pressure: the case of GeO₂ glass

Feb 23, 2023

Xinguo Hong, Matt Newville and Yang Ding, Local structural investigation of non-crystalline materials at high pressure: the case of GeO2 glass, 2023 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 35 164001, DOI 10.1088/1361-648X/acbb4c

Octahedral Distortion and Excitonic Behavior of Cs3Bi2Br9 Halide Perovskite at Low Temperature

Feb 23, 2023

Jianbo Jin, Li Na Quan, Mengyu Gao, Chubai Chen, Peijun Guo, and Peidong Yang. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2023 127 (7), 3523-3531. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c07642

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Latest Happenings at GSECARS

13 ID-D Table Upgrade

APS now assigns a unique DOI to each experiment

GSECARS congratulates Andy Campbell, SEES Director, for his award of the Arthur L. Kelly Faculty Prize for Exceptional Service in the Physical Sciences Division, University of Chicago

As announced by Ka Yee C. Lee, Interim Dean, Physical Sciences Division, The...

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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
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Uranium oxidation states in zircon and other accessory phases

Strength, plasticity, and spin transition of Fe-N alloys in planetary cores

Formation of zinc carbonate phases on dissolving calcite, aragonite, and vaterite in acidic aqueous solutions

Pressure–volume equation of state of Fe18Pt82

A Sodium Germanosilicide with Unusual Network Topology

Multicaloric Cryocooling Using Heavy Rare-Earth Free La(Fe,Si)13-Based Compounds

Science Highlights

Single-crystal elasticity of (Al,Fe)-bearing bridgmanite up to 82 GPa

Equation of state and spin crossover of (Al, Fe)-phase H

Superconductivity above 70 K observed in lutetium polyhydrides

Thermal Equation of State of Natural F-Rich Topaz up to 29 GPa and 750 K

Dual origin of ferropericlase inclusions within super-deep diamonds

Modulating Charge-Density Wave Order and Superconductivity from Two Alternative Stacked Monolayers in a Bulk 4Hb-TaSe₂ Heterostructure via Pressure

Lime slurry treatment of soils developing on abandoned coal mine spoil: Linking contaminant transport from the micrometer to pedon-scale

Superstoichiometric Alloying of H and Close-Packed Fe-Ni Metal Under High Pressures: Implications for Hydrogen Storage in Planetary Core

Synchrotron X-ray diffraction of pyrolusite (MnO₂) and rutile (TiO₂) during heating to ∼1000 °C

Local structural investigation of non-crystalline materials at high pressure: the case of GeO₂ glass

Octahedral Distortion and Excitonic Behavior of Cs3Bi2Br9 Halide Perovskite at Low Temperature

Latest Happenings at GSECARS

APS now assigns a unique DOI to each experiment

Beamtime applications – 2025-3

New lasers on the 13 IDD DAC Experiment Table

New 13 IDD DAC Experiment Table

GSECARS congratulates Andy Campbell, SEES Director, for his award of the Arthur L. Kelly Faculty Prize for Exceptional Service in the Physical Sciences Division, University of Chicago

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