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High-Pressure Structural and Thermodynamic Properties of Cerium Orthosilicates (CeSiO4)
Andrew C. Strzelecki, Xiaodong Zhao, Jason L. Baker, Paul Estevenon, Thomas Barral, Adel Mesbah, Dmitry Popov, Stella Chariton, Vitali Prakapenka, Sohan Ahmed, Choong-Shik Yoo, Nicolas Dacheux, Hongwu Xu, and Xiaofeng Guo
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C Article ASAP
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c06657

Core origin of seismic velocity anomalies at Earth’s core–mantle boundary
Fu, S., Chariton, S., Prakapenka, V.B. et al. Core origin of seismic velocity anomalies at Earth’s core–mantle boundary. Nature (2023).

Carbonate Coprecipitation for Cd and Zn Treatment and Evaluation of Heavy Metal Stability Under Acidic Conditions
Julie J. Kim, Sang Soo Lee, Paul Fenter, Satish C. B. Myneni, Viktor Nikitin, and Catherine A. Peters, Carbonate Coprecipitation for Cd and Zn Treatment and Evaluation of Heavy Metal Stability Under Acidic Conditions,
Environmental Science & Technology Article ASAP
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c07678

Reaction between Hydrogen and Ferrous/Ferric Oxides at High Pressures and High Temperatures—Implications for Sub-Neptunes and Super-Earths
H. W. Horn, V. Prakapenka, S. Chariton, S. Speziale and S.-H. Shim,Reaction between Hydrogen and Ferrous/Ferric Oxides at High Pressures and High Temperatures—Implications for Sub-Neptunes and Super-Earths, 2023, The Planetary Science Journal, Volume 4, Number 2, DOI 10.3847/PSJ/acab03

Synthesis and Post-Processing of Chemically Homogeneous Nanothreads from 2,5-Furandicarboxylic Acid
Dunning, Samuel, Chen, Bo, Zhu, Li, Cody, George D., Chariton, Stella, Prakapenka, Vitali B., Zhang, Dongzhou, Strobel, Timothy A., Synthesis and Post-Processing of Chemically Homogeneous Nanothreads from 2,5-Furandicarboxylic Acid, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, e202217023; Angew. Chem. 2023, e202217023.

The first-order structural transition in NiO at high pressure
Gavriliuk, A.G., Struzhkin, V.V., Ivanova, A.G. et al. The first-order structural transition in NiO at high pressure. Commun Phys 6, 23 (2023).

On the identification of hyperhydrated sodium chloride hydrates, stable at icy moon conditions
Baptiste Journaux , Anna Pakhomova, Ines E. Collings, Sylvain Petitgirard, Tiziana Boffa Ballaran, J. Michael Brown, Steven D. Vance, Stella Chariton, Vitali B. Prakapenka , Dongyang Huang , Jason Ott, Konstantin Glazyrin, Gaston Garbarino, Davide Comboni, Michael Hanfland, On the identification of hyperhydrated sodium chloride hydrates,
stable at icy moon conditions, PNAS, 2023, Vol 120, No.9,e2217125120

Evaluation of Copper Chelation Therapy in a Transgenic Rat Model of Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
Ashwin Ambi, Aleksandra Stanisavljevic, Tiffany W. Victor, Adam W. Lowery, Judianne Davis, William E. Van Nostrand, and Lisa M. Miller, Evaluation of Copper Chelation Therapy in a Transgenic Rat Model of Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy,
ACS Chemical Neuroscience Article ASAP
DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.2c00483

Pressure-induced charge orders and their postulated coupling to magnetism in hexagonal multiferroic LuFe2O4
Liu, F., Hao, Y., Ni, J. et al. Pressure-induced charge orders and their postulated coupling to magnetism in hexagonal multiferroic LuFe2O4. npj Quantum Mater. 8, 1 (2023).

Extreme redox variations in a superdeep diamond from a subducted slab
Fabrizio Nestola, Margo E. Regier, Robert W. Luth, D. Graham Pearson, Thomas Stachel, Catherine McCammon, Michelle D. Wenz, Steven D. Jacobsen, Chiara Anzolini, Luca Bindi & Jeffrey W. Harris , “Extreme redox variations in a superdeep diamond from a subducted slab.” Nature 613, 85–89 (2023).