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Composition and Pressure Effects on Partitioning of Ferrous Iron in Iron-Rich Lower Mantle Heterogeneities
Dorfman, S.M.; Nabiei, F.; Boukaré, C.-E.; Prakapenka, V.B.; Cantoni, M.; Badro, J.; Gillet, P. Composition and Pressure Effects on Partitioning of Ferrous Iron in Iron-Rich Lower Mantle Heterogeneities. Minerals 2021, 11, 512.
Belowground Interplant Carbon Transfer Promotes Soil Carbon Gains in Diverse Plant Communities
A.N. Kravchenko, H. Zheng, Y. Kuzyakov, G.P. Robertson, A.K. Guber,
Belowground interplant carbon transfer promotes soil carbon gains in diverse plant communities,
Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Volume 159, 2021, 108297
High-Temperature Phase Transitions in Dense Germanium
Liam C. Kelsall, Miriam Peña-Alvarez, Miguel Martinez-Canales, Jack Binns, Chris J. Pickard, Philip Dalladay-Simpson, Ross T. Howie, and Eugene Gregoryanz , “High-temperature phase transitions in dense germanium”, The Journal of Chemical Physics 154, 174702 (2021)
Plastic Deformation and Strengthening Mechanisms of Nanopolycrystalline Diamond
Yanbin Wang, Feng Shi, Julien Gasc, Hiroaki Ohfuji, Bin Wen, Tony Yu, Timothy Officer, Norimasa Nishiyama, Toru Shinmei, and Tetsuo Irifune,
Plastic Deformation and Strengthening Mechanisms of Nanopolycrystalline Diamond (2021) ACS Nano Article ASAP , DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c08737
Research Into Earth’s Early Atmosphere by Andre Salles at GSECARS 13-IDE
Research partly conducted at the Advanced Photon Source helped scientists discover the composition of Earth’s first atmosphere. What they found raises questions about the origin of life on Earth.
Equation of State for Natural Almandine, Spessartine, Pyrope Garnet: Implications for Quartz-In-Garnet Elastic Geobarometry
Mulligan, Suzanne R.; Stavrou, Elissaios; Chariton, Stella; Tschauner, Oliver; Salamat, Ashkan; Wells, Michael L.; Smith, Alexander G.; Hoisch, Thomas D.; Prakapenka, Vitali. 2021. “Equation of State for Natural Almandine, Spessartine, Pyrope Garnet: Implications for Quartz-In-Garnet Elastic Geobarometry” Minerals 11, no. 5: 458.
High-Pressure Synthesis of Dirac Materials: Layered van der Waals Bonded BeN4 Polymorph
Maxim Bykov, Timofey Fedotenko, Stella Chariton, Dominique Laniel, Konstantin Glazyrin, Michael Hanfland, Jesse S. Smith, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Mohammad F. Mahmood, Alexander F. Goncharov, Alena V. Ponomareva, Ferenc Tasnádi, Alexei I. Abrikosov, Talha Bin Masood, Ingrid Hotz, Alexander N. Rudenko, Mikhail I. Katsnelson, Natalia Dubrovinskaia, Leonid Dubrovinsky, and Igor A. Abrikosov, High-Pressure Synthesis of Dirac Materials: Layered van der Waals Bonded BeN4 Polymorph, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 175501, DOI = 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.175501
The Water-Fe-Pressure Dependent Single-Crystal Elastic Properties of Wadsleyite: Implications for the Seismic Anisotropy in the Upper Mantle Transition Zone
Wen-Yi Zhou, Zhiyuan Ren, Jin S. Zhang, Bin Chen, Ming Hao, Tomohiro Ohuchi, Lowell Miyagi, Dongzhou Zhang, Esen E. Alp, Barbara Lavina, Brandon Schmandt, The Water-Fe-Pressure dependent single-crystal elastic properties of wadsleyite: Implications for the seismic anisotropy in the upper Mantle Transition Zone, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 565, 2021,116955
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Hybrid Double Perovskite Containing Helium: [He2][CaZr]F6
Anthony J. Lloyd, Brett R. Hester, Samuel J. Baxter, Shangye Ma, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Sergey N. Tkachev, Changyong Park, and Angus P. Wilkinson, Hybrid Double Perovskite Containing Helium: [He2][CaZr]F6, Chemistry of Materials Article ASAP, DOI: 0.1021/acs.chemmater.0c04782
Structure and Composition of C-S-H Compounds up to 143 GPa
Bykova, Elena and Bykov, Maxim and Chariton, Stella and Prakapenka, Vitali B. and Glazyrin, Konstantin and Aslandukov, Andrey and Aslandukova, Alena and Criniti, Giacomo, Kurnosov, Alexander Goncharov, Alexander F., Structure and composition of C-S-H compounds up to 143 GPa, Phys. Rev. B 103 (14) L140105 (2021)