Beam On!

GSECARS successfully completed beamline upgrades associated with the APS Upgrade. Beamline commissioning started on July 26, 2024

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.

Upcoming Events

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all-day Agentic AI for User Facilities
Agentic AI for User Facilities
Jan 21 all-day
Agentic AI for User Facilities 1/21-1/22/2026 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,  Berkeley, CA https://indico.physics.lbl.gov/event/3209/ Agentic AI, systems that autonomously sense, decide, and act, is rapidly transforming operations across the Department of Energy’s user facilities. This two-day[...]
10:00 am PSC All Hands Meeting
PSC All Hands Meeting
Jan 21 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am
PSC All Hands Meeting Join ZoomGov Meeting https://argonne.zoomgov.com/j/1602279027?pwd=L4LK2Vcr7wSprAgh2xrb46pNtMigYc.1 Meeting ID: 160 227 9027 Passcode: 207678  
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all-day eBERlight 101
eBERlight 101
Feb 11 all-day
eBERlight 101
eBERlight 101 2/11-2/13/2026 Argonne National Laboratory  The second eBERlight 101 in-person workshop, organized by the eBERlight group at the Advanced Photon Source (APS), is designed for researchers at all career levels involved in bioenvironmental studies[...]
all-day eBERlight 101: Application of X-...
eBERlight 101: Application of X-...
Feb 11 all-day
eBERlight 101: Application of X-ray methods in biological and environmental research +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ We are pleased to announce the second workshop, “eBERlight 101: Application of X-ray methods in biological and environmental research”, to be held February[...]
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all-day Rock Deformation Workshop
Rock Deformation Workshop
Mar 2 all-day
ISRD-RCN and SEES will host a hands-on workshop to introduce synchrotron techniques to the rock deformation community on March 2–4, 2026, at the Advanced Photon Source in Lemont, Illinois. The workshop will focus on synchrotron-based high-pressure, high-temperature rock[...]
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all-day APS 2026 User Meeting
APS 2026 User Meeting
May 4 all-day
APS 2026 User Meeting May 4-8, 2026 Argonne National Laboratory  The APS/CNM Users Meeting is a week-long event that includes user presentations, scientific awards, a poster session, and workshops dedicated to the wide array of[...]
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all-day XAFS 2026
XAFS 2026
Jun 21 all-day
XAFS 2026, The 19th International XAFS Conference (XAFS2026) will be held in Thailand, from June 21 to June 26, 2026. The official website is http://www.xafs2026.org/ Organizer: Synchrotron Light Research Institute Conference Chair: Wantana Klysubun
all-day XAFS 2026
XAFS 2026
Jun 21 all-day
XAFS 2026 https://xafs2026.org/XAFS2026/ 2026/06/21 till 2026/06/26 Location: The Empress Convention Center and Hotel, Chiang Mai, Thailand    

Recent Publications

Science Highlights

Boron isotopes in blue diamond record seawater-derived fluids in the lower mantle

Margo E. Regier, Karen V. Smit, Thomas B. Chalk, Thomas Stachel, Richard A. Stern, Evan M. Smith, Gavin L. Foster, Yannick Bussweiler, Chris DeBuhr, Antony D. Burnham, Jeff W. Harris, D. Graham Pearson,
Boron isotopes in blue diamond record seawater-derived fluids in the lower mantle, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 602, 2023, 117923, ISSN 0012-821X,

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Iron-rich Fe–O compounds at Earth’s core pressure

Jin Liu, Yang Sun, Chaojia Lv, Feng Zhang, Suyu Fu, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Caizhuang Wang, Kaiming Ho, Jungfu Lin, Renata M. Wentzcovitch, Iron-rich Fe–O compounds at Earth’s core pressures, The Innovation, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2023, 100354, ISSN 2666-6758,

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The mitochondrial Cu+ transporter PiC2 (SLC25A3) is a target of MTF1 and contributes to the development of skeletal muscle in vitro

Cat McCann, Michael Quinteros, Ifeoluwa Adelugba, Marcos N. Morgada, Aida R. Castelblanco, Emily J. Davis, Antonio Lanzirotti, Sarah J. Hainer, Alejandro J. Vila, Juan G. Navea, Teresita Padilla-Benavides, “The mitochondrial Cu[superscirpt +] transporter PiC2 (SLC25A3) is a target of MTF1 and contributes to the development of skeletal muscle in vitro,” Front. Mol. Biosci. 9, 1037941 (2022). DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2022.1037941

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Latest Happenings at GSECARS

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

AGU 2024

AGU 2024

GSECARS organized an exciting session at the AGU 2024 Fall Meeting in...

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