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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Recent Publications
Viscosity Measurements at High Pressures: A Critical Appraisal of Corrections to Stokes’ Law
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
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
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
Li, Z., Kravchenko, A.N., Cupples, A. et al. Composition and metabolism of microbial communities in soil pores. Nat Commun 15, 3578 (2024).
Fast Seismic Anomalies Under Continents Explained by the Delaminated Lower Continental Crust—Implications From High Pressure-Temperature Elasticity of Jadeite
Hao, M., Zhou, W.Y., Dera, P., Schmandt, B., Zhang, D., & Zhang, J. S. (2024). Fast seismic anomalies under continents explained by the...
High-Pressure Behavior of Ferromagnesite (Mg0.81Fe0.19)CO3 by Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction and Raman Spectroscopy up to 53 GPa
Liang, L., Zhang, G., Huang, S. et al. High-Pressure Behavior of Ferromagnesite (Mg0.81Fe0.19)CO3 by Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction and Raman...
Science Highlights
Preservation of high-pressure volatiles in nanostructured diamond capsules
Zeng, Z., Wen, J., Lou, H. et al. Preservation of high-pressure volatiles in nanostructured diamond capsules. Nature 608, 513–517 (2022).
Hot dense silica glass with ultrahigh elastic moduli
Sun, N., Mao, Z., Zhang, X. et al. Hot dense silica glass with ultrahigh elastic moduli. Sci Rep 12, 13946 (2022).
Suppression of ferromagnetism governed by a critical lattice parameter in CeTiGe 3 with hydrostatic
pressure or V substitution
Hanshang Jin, Weizhao Cai, Jared Coles, Jackson R. Badger, Peter Klavins, Shanti Deemyad, and Valentin Taufour, Suppression of ferromagnetism governed by a critical lattice parameter in CeTiGe3 with hydrostatic pressure or V substitution, Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 106, Iss. 7, (2022) 075131, DOE : 10.1103/PhysRevB.106.075131
Synthesis, crystal structure, and properties of stoichiometric hard tungsten tetraboride, WB4
Bykova, Elena, Sergey V. Ovsyannikov, Maxim Bykov, Yuqing Yin, Timofey Fedotenko, Hendrik Holz, Stefan Gabel et al. “Synthesis, crystal structure, and properties of stoichiometric hard tungsten tetraboride, WB 4.” Journal of Materials Chemistry A (2022). DOI: 10.1039/d2ta02268k
Nested order-disorder framework containing a crystalline matrix with self-filled amorphous-like innards
Bu, K., Hu, Q., Qi, X. et al. Nested order-disorder framework containing a crystalline matrix with self-filled amorphous-like innards. Nat Commun 13, 4650 (2022).
Pressure-induced metallization in the absence of a structural transition in the layered ferromagnetic insulator Cr2Ge2Te6
Cai, Weizhao and Yan, Luo and Chong, Su Kong and Xu, Jingui and Zhang, Dongzhou and Deshpande, Vikram V. and Zhou, Liujiang and Deemyad, Shanti, Pressure-induced metallization in the absence of a structural transition in the layered ferromagnetic insulator Cr2Ge2Te6, Phys Rev B, Vol 106, Iss 8, (2022), DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevB.106.085116
Synthesis and Stability of an Eight-Coordinated Fe3O4High-Pressure Phase: Implications for the Mantle Structure of Super-Earths
Zurkowski, C. C., Yang, J., Chariton, S.,, Prakapenka, V. B., & Fei, Y. (2022). Synthesis and stability of an eight-coordinated Fe3O4 high-pressure phase: Implications for the mantle structure of super-Earths. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 127, e2022JE007344
Pressure effect on magnetism and valence in ferromagnetic superconductor Eu(Fe0.75Ru0.25)2As2
Nix, Z., Zhao, J., Alp, E.E., Xiao, Y., Zhang, D., Cao, G., Vohra, Y.K. and Bi, W., 2022. Pressure effect on magnetism and valence in ferromagnetic superconductorEu (Fe0. 75Ru0. 25) 2As2. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter., Vol 34, No 41, 415601
Highly ordered graphite (HOPG) to hexagonal diamond (lonsdaleite) phase transition observed on picosecond time scales using ultrafast x-ray diffraction
Michael R. Armstrong, Harry B. Radousky, Ryan A. Austin, Oliver Tschauner, Shaughnessy Brown, Arianna E. Gleason, Nir Goldman, Eduardo Granados, Paulius Grivickas, Nicholas Holtgrewe, Matthew P. Kroonblawd, Hae Ja Lee, Sergey Lobanov, Bob Nagler, Inhyuk Nam, Vitali Prakapenka, Clemens Prescher, Evan J. Reed, Elissaios Stavrou, Peter Walter, Alexander F. Goncharov, and Jonathan L. Belof , “Highly ordered graphite (HOPG) to hexagonal diamond (lonsdaleite) phase transition observed on picosecond time scales using ultrafast x-ray diffraction”, Journal of Applied Physics 132, 055901 (2022)
Sequential Shape Heritability during Confined Comminution
Dawa Seo, Giuseppe Buscarnera,
Sequential Shape Heritability during Confined Comminution,
Mechanics Research Communications, 2022, 103945, ISSN 0093-6413
Effect of oxidation on the release of multiple metals from industrially polluted sediments and synchrotron-based evidence of Cu–S dynamic association
Yu Feng, Peng Liu, Xianjun Xie, Yiqun Gan, Chunli Su, YingYing Liu, Y. Zou Finfrock, Yongjie Wang, “Effect of oxidation on the release of multiple metals from industrially polluted sediments and synchrotron-based evidence of Cu–S dynamic association,” J. Soil Sediment 22, 2827-2839 (2022). DOI: 10.1007/s11368-022-03288-8
Latest Happenings at GSECARS
13 ID-D Table Upgrade
Studying copper toxicity in sugar beet plants, 13 IDE, March 2025
Xiaoyang Liu and Malgorzata Korbas (Argonne National Laboratory) with GSE...
Studying aluminosilicate melts at 13 IDD, LVP, March 2025
Aaron Ashley and Erin Scott (Florida State University) prepare samples for...
GSECARS technician, Carolyn Zaino, works on boron epoxy windows for upcoming multi-anvil press experiments at Sector 13, APS.
X-ray diffraction investigation at 13 IDD, March 2025
Shomeek Mukhopadhyay and Ruiqi Yang (Yale University) conduct an X-ray...
Deformation experiments at 13 BMD, March 2025
Haemyeong Jung and Seongmin Ha (Seoul National University) working on...