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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.

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

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Uncovering the predictive pathways of lithium and sodium interchange in layered oxides

Yu Han, Weihang Xie, Grant T. Hill, Paul Smeets, Xiaobing Hu, Gangbin Yan, Siqi Zou, Jiadong Liu, Ronghui Wu, Fengyuan Shi, Hua Zhou, Pieremanuele...

Early-onset of pressure-induced metallization in iron-doped multilayered molybdenum disulfide

Chih-Ming Lin, Der-Yuh Lin, Jenh-Yih Juang, Tony Huang, Dong-Zhou Zhang, Yi-Jia Tsai, Sheng-Rui Jian, Joon-Seok Kim, Jung-Fu Lin; Early-onset of...

Exciton engineering of 2D Ruddlesden–Popper perovskites by synergistically tuning the intra and interlayer structures

Guo, S., Mihalyi-Koch, W., Mao, Y. et al. Exciton engineering of 2D Ruddlesden–Popper perovskites by synergistically tuning the intra and interlayer...

Dynamic Inhibition of Calcite Dissolution in Flowing Acidic Pb2+ Solutions

Bektur Abdilla, Sang Soo Lee, Paul Fenter, Neil C. Sturchio, "Dynamic Inhibition of Calcite Dissolution in Flowing Acidic Pb2+ Solutions," Environ....

Extending carbon chemistry at high-pressure by synthesis of CaC2 and Ca3C7 with deprotonated polyacene- and para-poly(indenoindene)-like nanoribbons

Khandarkhaeva, S., Fedotenko, T., Aslandukova, A. et al. Extending carbon chemistry at high-pressure by synthesis of CaC2 and Ca3C7 with...

Pressure-induced phase transitions in Ni-bearing ferrosilite (Ni-En31Fs65)

Xu, Jingui, Fan, Dawei, Zhang, Dongzhou, Li, Bo, Zhou, Wenge and Dera, Przemyslaw. "Pressure-induced phase transitions in Ni-bearing ferrosilite...

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Science Highlights

Melting of the Fe-C-H System and Earth’s Deep Carbon-Hydrogen Cycle

Jun 25, 2022

Xiaojing Lai, Feng Zhu, Jing Gao, Eran Greenberg, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Yue Meng, Bin Chen, “Melting of the Fe-C-H System and Earth’s Deep Carbon-Hydrogen Cycle,” Geophys. Res. Lett. 49 (13), e2022GL098919 (2022). DOI: 10.1029/2022GL098919

Experimental Evidence Supporting an Overturned Iron-Titanium-Rich Melt Layer in the Deep Lunar Interior

Jun 24, 2022

Man Xu, Zhicheng Jing, James A. Van Orman, Tony Yu, Yanbin Wang, “Experimental Evidence Supporting an Overturned Iron-Titanium-Rich Melt Layer in the Deep Lunar Interior,” Geophys. Res. Lett. 49 (13), e2022GL099066 (2022). DOI: 10.1029/2022GL099066

Cation Exchange in Smectites as a New Approach to Mineral Carbonation

Jun 23, 2022

Zeyen Nina, Wang Baolin, Wilson Siobhan A., Paulo Carlos, Stubbs Amanda R., Power Ian M., Steele-Maclnnis Matthew, Lanzirotti Antonio, Newville Matthew, Paterson David J., Hamilton Jessica L., Jones Thomas R., Turvey Connor C., Dipple Gregory M., Southam Gordon, Cation Exchange in Smectites as a New Approach to Mineral Carbonation, Frontiers in Climate, Vol 4 (2022), DOI=10.3389/fclim.2022.913632

Fe₅S₂ identified as a host of sulfur in Earth and planetary cores

Jun 22, 2022

Claire C. Zurkowski, Barbara Lavina, Abigail Case, Kellie Swadba, Stella Chariton, Vitali Prakapenka, Andrew J. Campbell, Fe5S2 identified as a host of sulfur in Earth and planetary cores, Earth and Planetary Science Letters,
Volume 593, 2022, 117650

Hematite-goethite ratios at pH 2–13 and 25–170 °C: A time-resolved synchrotron X-ray diffraction study

Jun 20, 2022

Si Athena Chen, Peter J. Heaney, Jeffrey E. Post, Peter J. Eng, Joanne E. Stubbs, Hematite-goethite ratios at pH 2–13 and 25–170 °C: A time-resolved synchrotron X-ray diffraction study, Chemical Geology, Volume 606, 2022, 120995

Insight into contact forces in crushable sand using experiments and predictive particle-scale modelling

Jun 17, 2022

Insight into contact forces in crushable sand using experiments and predictive particle-scale modelling
John M. Harmon, Dawa Seo, Giuseppe Buscarnera, and José E. Andrade
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Pressure-Quenched Superconductivity in Weyl Semimetal NbP Induced by Electronic Phase Transitions under Pressure

Jun 13, 2022

Wen Deng, Jiapeng Zhen, Qiushi Huang, Yanju Wang, Hongliang Dong, Shun Wan, Shihui Zhang, Jiajia Feng, Bin Chen, "Pressure-Quenched...

Pressure-induced high-spin/low-spin disproportionated state in the Mott insulator FeBO3

Jun 10, 2022

Xu, W., Dong, W., Layek, S. et al. Pressure-induced high-spin/low-spin disproportionated state in the Mott insulator FeBO3. Sci Rep 12, 9647 (2022).

Pressure-induced local structural crossover in a high-entropy metallic glass

Jun 9, 2022

Zhang, Xin and Lou, Hongbo and Zhang, Fei and Luan, Hengwei and Liang, Tao and Li, Shubin and Chen, Xiehang and Shao, Yang and Yao, Ke-Fu and Zeng, Zhidan and Zeng, Qiaoshi,Pressure-induced local structural crossover in a high-entropy metallic glass, Phys. Rev. B, 105 (22), 2022, doi = 10.1103/PhysRevB.105.224201

Magnetic field screening in hydrogen-rich high-temperature superconductors

Jun 9, 2022

Minkov, V.S., Bud’ko, S.L., Balakirev, F.F. et al. Magnetic field screening in hydrogen-rich high-temperature superconductors. Nat Commun 13, 3194 (2022).

Verwey-Type Charge Ordering and Site-Selective Mott Transition inFe4 O5 under Pressure

Jun 1, 2022

Samar Layek, Eran Greenberg, Stella Chariton, Maxim Bykov, Elena Bykova, Dmytro M. Trots, Alexander V. Kurnosov, Irina Chuvashova, Sergey V. Ovsyannikov, Ivan Leonov, and Gregory Kh. Rozenberg, Verwey-Type Charge Ordering and Site-Selective Mott Transition in Fe4O5 under Pressure,
Journal of the American Chemical Society Article ASAP
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c00895

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Latest Happenings at GSECARS

13 ID-D Table Upgrade

Studying laboratory-synthesized garnets and melts at 13 IDE, April 2025

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

Research Techniques

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Upcoming Events

Recent Publications

Uncovering the predictive pathways of lithium and sodium interchange in layered oxides

Early-onset of pressure-induced metallization in iron-doped multilayered molybdenum disulfide

Exciton engineering of 2D Ruddlesden–Popper perovskites by synergistically tuning the intra and interlayer structures

Dynamic Inhibition of Calcite Dissolution in Flowing Acidic Pb2+ Solutions

Extending carbon chemistry at high-pressure by synthesis of CaC2 and Ca3C7 with deprotonated polyacene- and para-poly(indenoindene)-like nanoribbons

Pressure-induced phase transitions in Ni-bearing ferrosilite (Ni-En31Fs65)

Science Highlights

Melting of the Fe-C-H System and Earth’s Deep Carbon-Hydrogen Cycle

Experimental Evidence Supporting an Overturned Iron-Titanium-Rich Melt Layer in the Deep Lunar Interior

Cation Exchange in Smectites as a New Approach to Mineral Carbonation

Fe₅S₂ identified as a host of sulfur in Earth and planetary cores

Hematite-goethite ratios at pH 2–13 and 25–170 °C: A time-resolved synchrotron X-ray diffraction study

Insight into contact forces in crushable sand using experiments and predictive particle-scale modelling

Pressure-Quenched Superconductivity in Weyl Semimetal NbP Induced by Electronic Phase Transitions under Pressure

Pressure-induced high-spin/low-spin disproportionated state in the Mott insulator FeBO3

Pressure-induced local structural crossover in a high-entropy metallic glass

Magnetic field screening in hydrogen-rich high-temperature superconductors

Verwey-Type Charge Ordering and Site-Selective Mott Transition inFe4 O5 under Pressure

Latest Happenings at GSECARS

Studying laboratory-synthesized garnets and melts at 13 IDE, April 2025

Studying halide perovskites at 13 BMC, April 2025

Stella Chariton and Vitali Prakapenka deconstruct the original DAC experimental table

Deformation experiments of blueschist at 13BMD, March 2025

Studying copper toxicity in sugar beet plants, 13 IDE, March 2025

GSECARS

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

Research Techniques

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Latest Happenings at GSECARS

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