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
Simultaneous compression of NaCl, Au, and ruby: toward mutually consistent pressure scales
Yanbin Wang, Guoyin Shen & Jesse S. Smith (2024) Simultaneous compression of NaCl, Au, and ruby: toward mutually consistent pressure scales, High Pressure Research
Structure and titanium distribution of feiite characterized using synchrotron single-crystal X-ray diffraction techniques
Zurkowski, Claire, Lavina, Barbara, Prissel, Kelsey, Chariton, Stella, Prakapenka, Vitali B. and Fei, Yingwei. “Structure and titanium distribution of feiite characterized using synchrotron single-crystal X-ray diffraction techniques” American Mineralogist, vol. 109, no. 1, 2024, pp. 144-149.
Reaction Layer Formation on MgO in the Presence of Humidity
Jacquelyn N. Bracco, Gabriela Camacho Meneses, Omar Colón, Ke Yuan, Joanne E. Stubbs, Peter J. Eng, Anna K. Wanhala, Jeffrey D. Einkauf, Matthew G. Boebinger, Andrew G. Stack, and Juliane Weber
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces Article ASAP, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c14823
Accurate equation of state of H2-He binary mixtures up to 5.4 GPa
Zoller, Charlie M. and Ahart, Muhtar and Duwal, Sakun and Clay, Raymond C. and Seagle, Christopher T. and Ryu, Young Jay and Tkachev, Sergey and Chariton, Stella and Prakapenka, Vitali and Hemley, Russell J., “Accurate equation of state of H2-He binary mixtures up to 5.4 GPa”, 2023, Phys Rev B, Vol 108, Iss 22, 224112, DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevB.108.224112
Effect of Fermi surface topology change on the Kagome superconductor CeRu2 under pressure
Liangzi Deng, Melissa Gooch, Hongxiong Liu, Nilesh P. Salke, Trevor Bontke, Sen Shao, Jingyang You, Daniel J. Schulze, Ravhi Kumar, Jia-Xin Yin, Youguo Shi, Russell J. Hemley, Yuanping Feng, Guoqing Chang, Qimiao Si, Ching-Wu Chu,
Effect of Fermi surface topology change on the Kagome superconductor CeRu2 under pressure Materials Today Physics, Volume 40, 2024, 101322,
ISSN 2542-5293,
Zagamiite, CaAl2Si3.5O11, the Hexagonal High-Pressure CAS Phase with Dominant Si, as a Mineral from Mars
Ma, C.; Tschauner, O.; Beckett, J.R.; Greenberg, E.; Prakapenka, V.B. Zagamiite, CaAl2Si3.5O11, the Hexagonal High-Pressure CAS Phase with Dominant Si, as a Mineral from Mars. Minerals 2024, 14, 18.
Science Highlights
Comparison of reidite formation between zircon bulk and nanoparticles
Shuai Nan, Jingjing Niu, Lin Liang, Ziyao Lu, Qikun Wang, Pengfei Zhai, Yingxin Liu, Shan Qin, Weixing Li, "Comparison of reidite formation between...
Thermal equation of state of F-bearing superhydrous phase B (Mg10Si3O14(OH,F)4): Implications for the transportation of fluorine and water into the lower mantle
Xiang Li, Yungui Liu, Ran Wang, Takashi Yoshino, Jingui Xu, Dongzhou Zhang, Tobias Grützner, Junfeng Zhang, Xiang Wu, “Thermal equation of state of F-bearing superhydrous phase B (Mg10Si3O14(OH,F)4): Implications for the transportation of fluorine and water into the lower mantle,” Phys. Earth Planet. In. 323, 106824 (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2021.106824
HP-PdF2-type FeCl2 as a potential Cl-carrier in the deep Earth
Hongsheng Yuan, Lianjie Man, Duck Young Kim, Dmitry Popov, Yue Meng, Eran Greenberg, Vitali Prakapenka, Li Zhang; HP-PdF2-type FeCl2 as a potential Cl-carrier in the deep Earth. American Mineralogist 2022;; 107 (2): 313–317.
Negative linear compressibility in Se at ultra-high pressure above 120 GPa
Shuhua Yuan, Luhong Wang, Sheng-cai Zhu, Fuyang Liu, Dongzhou Zhang, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Sergey Tkachev, Haozhe Liu, “Negative linear compressibility in Se at ultra-high pressure above 120 GPa,” IUCrJ 9 (2), 253-260 (2022). DOI: 10.1107/S2052252522000252
Metamorphism-facilitated faulting in deforming orthopyroxene: Implications for global intermediate-depth seismicity
Feng Shia, Yanbin Wang, Jianguo Wenc, Tony Yub, Lupei Zhud , Taizi Huange , and Kelin Wange, Metamorphism-facilitated faulting in deforming orthopyroxene: Implications for global intermediate-depth seismicity, (2022), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 119, No. 11, DOI : 10.1073/pnas.2112386119
Contact Angle Hysteresis: A new Paradigm?
Diba Behnoudfar, Maria I. Dragila, Douglas Meisenheimer, Dorthe Wildenschild, Contact Angle Hysteresis: A new Paradigm?,
Advances in Water Resources, 2022, 104138,
ISSN 0309-1708,
Effect of Thermoelastic Properties of the Pyrope-Almandine Solid Solutions on the Entrapment Pressure of Garnet-Related Elastic Geobarometer
Li Bo, Jiang Junjie, Xu Jingui, Tkachev Sergey N., Ye Zhilin, Huang Shijie, Guo Weihua, Zeng Yongjun, Prakapenka Vitali B., Fan Dawei, Zhou Wenge, Effect of Thermoelastic Properties of the Pyrope-Almandine Solid Solutions on the Entrapment Pressure of Garnet-Related Elastic Geobarometer, Frontiers in Earth Science, Vol 9, 2022, DOI : 10.3389/feart.2021.833405
A reentrant phase transition and a novel polymorph revealed in high-pressure investigations of CF4 up to 46.5 GPa
Dominique Laniel, Timofey Fedotenko, Bjoern Winkler, Alena Aslandukova, Andrey Aslandukov, Georgios Aprilis, Stella Chariton, Victor Milman, Vitali Prakapenka, Leonid Dubrovinsky, and Natalia Dubrovinskaia , “A reentrant phase transition and a novel polymorph revealed in high-pressure investigations of CF4 up to 4 6.5 GPa”, J. Chem. Phys. 156, 044503 (2022)
Experimental quantification of vanadium partitioning between eclogitic minerals (garnet, clinopyroxene, rutile) and silicate melt as a function of temperature and oxygen fugacity
Holycross, M., Cottrell, E. Experimental quantification of vanadium partitioning between eclogitic minerals (garnet, clinopyroxene, rutile) and silicate melt as a function of temperature and oxygen fugacity. Contrib Mineral Petrol 177, 21 (2022).
Superconductor–insulator transitions in three-dimensional indium-oxide at high pressures
Bar Hen, Victor Shelukhin, Eran Greenberg, Gregory Kh Rozenberg, Aharon Kapitulnik, Alexander Palevski, (2022) J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 34 135402
Predicting the Strength of Planetary Surfaces
Harmon, John M. (2022) Predicting the Strength of Planetary Surfaces. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/r9zm-kp19.
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