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Superhydrous hematite and goethite: A potential water reservoir in the red dust of Mars?
Si Athena Chen, Peter J. Heaney, Jeffrey E. Post, Timothy B. Fischer, Peter J. Eng, Joanne E. Stubbs; Superhydrous hematite and goethite: A potential water reservoir in the red dust of Mars?. Geology 2021
Synthesis and chemical stability of technetium nitrides
E. Siska, D. Smith, A. Salamat, K. V. Lawler, B. Lavina, F. Poineau and P. M. Forster, Synthesis and chemical stability of technetium nitrides, Chem. Commun., 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D1CC02525B.
Effect of Background Electrolyte Composition on the Interfacial Formation of Th(IV) Nanoparticles on the Muscovite (001) Basal Plane
J. Neumann, C. Qiu, P. Eng, S. Skanthakumar, L. Soderholm, T. Stumpf, M. Schmidt, Effect of Background Electrolyte Composition on the Interfacial Formation of Th(IV) Nanoparticles on the Muscovite (001) Basal Plane, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C Article ASAP
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c03997
High Pressure Brillouin Spectroscopy and X-ray Diffraction of Cerium Dioxide
Frost, M.; Lazarz, J.D.; Levitan, A.L.; Prakapenka, V.B.; Sun, P.; Tkachev, S.N.; Yang, H.; Glenzer, S.H.; Gleason, A.E. High Pressure Brillouin Spectroscopy and X-ray Diffraction of Cerium Dioxide. Materials 2021, 14, 3683.
Stability of the sc16 polymorph of GaAs
B. Lavina, E. Zanardi, A. Mujica, H. Cynn, S. Tkachev, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 2021, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, DOI : 10.1016/j.jpcs.2021.110233.
Structural, Vibrational, and Electronic Properties of 1D-TlInTe2 under High Pressure: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study
Sorb Yesudhas, N. Yedukondalu, Manoj K. Jana, Jianbo Zhang, Jie Huang, Bijuan Chen, Hongshang Deng, Raimundas Sereika, Hong Xiao, Stanislav Sinogeikin, Curtis Kenney-Benson, Kanishka Biswas, John B. Parise, Yang Ding, and Ho-kwang Mao, Vibrational, and Electronic Properties of 1D-TlInTe2 under High Pressure: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study, Inorganic Chemistry Article ASAP
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c03795
Lattice melting and superconductivity in a group IV-VI compound
Liu-Cheng Chen, Pei-Qi Chen, Wei-Jian Li, Qian Zhang, Viktor V. Struzhkin, Alexander F. Goncharov, Zhifeng Ren, Xiao-Jia Chen, Lattice melting and superconductivity in a group IV-VI compound, (2021) Phys. Rev. B, 103 (21) DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevB.103.214516
Influence of Micro- and Crystalline-Scale Properties on the Fracture of Silica Sand Particles Using 3D Finite-Element Analysis
Wadi H. Imseeh, and Khalid A. Alshibli, Influence of Micro- and Crystalline-Scale Properties on the Fracture of Silica Sand Particles Using 3D Finite-Element Analysis, International Journal of Geomechanics, Vol. 21, Issue 9
Immiscibility in N2–H2O solids up to 140 GPa
Xiao Zhang, Yu Wang, Maxim Bykov, Elena Bykova, Stella Chariton, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Konstantin Glazyrin, and Alexander F. Goncharov
, “Immiscibility in N2–H2O solids up to 140 GPa”, The Journal of Chemical Physics 154, 234505 (2021)
Slab-derived sulfate generates oxidized basaltic magmas in the southern Cascade arc
Michelle J. Muth, Paul J. Wallace; Slab-derived sulfate generates oxidized basaltic magmas in the southern Cascade arc (California, USA). Geology 2021