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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Recent Publications
Seven-Coordinated High-Pressure Phase of CrSb2 and Experimental Equation of State of MSb2 (M = Cr, Fe, Ru, Os)
Emma Ehrenreich-Petersen, Mads F. Hansen, Justin Jeanneau, Davide Ceresoli, Francesca Menescardi, Martin Ottesen, Vitali Prakapenka, Sergey N. Tkachev, and Martin Bremholm; Seven-Coordinated High-Pressure Phase of CrSb2 and Experimental Equation of State of MSb2 (M = Cr, Fe, Ru, Os). Inorganic Chemistry. (2023).
Structural evolution of iodine on approach to the monatomic state
Elena Bykova, Iskander G. Batyrev, Maxim Bykov, Eric Edmund, Stella Chariton, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Alexander F. Goncharov, “Structural evolution of iodine on approach to the monatomic state,” Phys. Rev. B 108 (2), 024104 (2023). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.108.024104
Structure evolution of Bi4O7 under high pressure
Wang, J., Wang, L., Liu, F., Yuan, S., Zhang, D., Prakapenka, V. B., Klein, W. & Liu, H. (2023). Structure evolution of Bi4O7 under high pressure. J. Appl. Cryst. 56, 1125–1130.
Manipulating Peierls Distortion in van der Waals NbOX2 Maximizes Second-Harmonic Generation
Tonghuan Fu, Kejun Bu, Xuzhou Sun, Dong Wang, Xin Feng, Songhao Guo, Zongdong Sun, Yuqiang Fang, Qingyang Hu, Yang Ding, Tianyou Zhai, Fuqiang Huang, and Xujie Lü
Journal of the American Chemical Society 2023 145 (30), 16828-16834
Anomalous Charge Transfer from Organic Ligands to Metal Halides in Zero-Dimensional [(C6H5)4P]2SbCl5 Enabled by Pressure-Induced Lone Pair-π Interaction
Hui Luo, Kejun Bu, Yanfeng Yin, Dong Wang, Cuimi Shi, Songhao Guo, Tonghuan Fu, Jiayuan Liang, Bingyan Liu, Dongzhou Zhang, Liang-Jin Xu, Qingyang...
Exploring particle breakage in sand under triaxial shearing using combined X-ray tomography and particle tracking method
MengmengWu and JianfengWang, Exploring particle breakage in sand under triaxial shearing using combined X-ray tomography and particle tracking method, 2023,
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Science Highlights
Single‐Crystal Elasticity of High‐Pressure Ice up to 98 GPa by Brillouin Scattering
Shi, W., Sun, N., Li, X., Mao, Z., Liu, J., & Prakapenka, V. B. (2021). Single‐crystal elasticity of high‐pressure ice up to 98 GPa by brillouin scattering. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL092514
Latent Heat Method to Detect Melting and Freezing of Metals at Megabar Pressures
Zachary M. Geballe, Nicholas Holtgrewe, Amol Karandikar, Eran Greenberg, Vitali B. Prakapenka, and Alexander F. Goncharov, “Latent heat method to detect melting and freezing of metals at megabar pressures”, (2021) Phys. Rev. Materials 5, Iss. 3, 033803, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.5.033803
Ultra-Incompressible High-Entropy Diborides
Xiaoliang Zhang, Weiwei Li, Hua Tian, Junxiu Liu, Cong Li, Hongliang Dong, Jian Chen, Meng Song, Bin Chen, Hongwei Sheng, Shanmin Wang, Dongzhou Zhang, and Hengzhong Zhang, ”
Ultra-incompressible High-Entropy Diborides”, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 0, 12, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c00399
On the Relationship Between Capillary Pressure, Saturation, and Interfacial Area for Three-Phase Flow in Water-Wet Porous Media
Rebecca Paustian, Linnéa Andersson, Johan Olav Helland, Dorthe Wildenschild,”On the Relationship Between Capillary Pressure, Saturation, and Interfacial Area for Three-Phase Flow in Water-Wet Porous Media”, Advances in Water Resources, 2021,
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Reversal of Carbonate-Silicate Cation Exchange in Cold Slabs in Earth’s Lower Mantle
Lv, M., Dorfman, S.M., Badro, J. et al. Reversal of carbonate-silicate cation exchange in cold slabs in Earth’s lower mantle. Nat Commun 12, 1712 (2021).
Predicting the Effect of Relaxation on Interfacial Area Development in Multiphase Flow
Meisenheimer, D. E., & Wildenschild, D. (2021). Predicting the effect of relaxation on interfacial area development in multiphase flow. Water Resources Research, 57, e2020WR028770.
Revealing the Complex Nature of Bonding in the Binary High-Pressure Compound FeO2
Koemets, E. and Leonov, I. and Bykov, M. and Bykova, E. and Chariton, S. and Aprilis, G. and Fedotenko, T. and Cl\’ement, S. and Rouquette, J. and Haines, J. and Cerantola, V. and Glazyrin, K. and McCammon, C. and Prakapenka, V. B. and Hanfland, M. and Liermann, H.-P. and Svitlyk, V. and Torchio, R. and Rosa, A. D. and Irifune, T. and Ponomareva, A. V. and Abrikosov, I. A. and Dubrovinskaia, N. and Dubrovinsky, L., “Revealing the Complex Nature of Bonding in the Binary High-Pressure Compound
FeO2”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 106001
Carbonate Caprock–Brine–Carbon Dioxide Interaction: Alteration of Hydromechanical Properties and Implications on Carbon Dioxide Leakage
Sang, Guijie , and Shimin Liu. “Carbonate Caprock–Brine–Carbon Dioxide Interaction: Alteration of Hydromechanical Properties and Implications on Carbon Dioxide Leakage.” SPE J. (2021;)
Anomalous High‐Temperature Superconductivity in YH6
Troyan, I. A., Semenok, D. V., Kvashnin, A. G., Sadakov, A. V., Sobolevskiy, O. A., Pudalov, V. M., Ivanova, A. G., Prakapenka, V. B., Greenberg, E., Gavriliuk, A. G., Lyubutin, I. S., Struzhkin, V. V., Bergara, A., Errea, I., Bianco, R., Calandra, M., Mauri, F., Monacelli, L., Akashi, R., Oganov, A. R., Anomalous High‐Temperature Superconductivity in YH6. Adv. Mater. 2021, 33, 2006832.
Superionic Iron Oxide–Hydroxide in Earth’s Deep Mantle
Hou, M., He, Y., Jang, B.G. et al. Superionic iron oxide–hydroxide in Earth’s deep mantle. Nat. Geosci. 14, 174–178 (2021)
Pressure-Induced Ferroelectric-Like Transition Creates a Polar Metal in Defect Antiperovskites Hg3Te2X2 (X = Cl, Br)
Cai, W., He, J., Li, H. et al. Pressure-induced ferroelectric-like transition creates a polar metal in defect antiperovskites Hg3Te2X2 (X = Cl, Br). Nat Commun 12, 1509 (2021)
Latest Happenings at GSECARS
13 ID-D Table Upgrade
Core-mantle boundary conditions in the presence of water could explain the heterogeneities in seismic properties
Multi-anvil experiments at ESRF’s ID06
GSE beamline scientists T. Officer, T. Yu, and Y. Wang (not pictured) conduct...
SCSW 2024
GSE welcomes high school women at SCSW 2024.
Solar eclipse viewing at GSECARS.
