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.
Access Restrictions Lifted at APS Experiment Hall Floor
With the near completion of radiation shielding testing on the APS experiment floor, APS is lifting global restrictions and granting access once again throughout much of the facility as of 04/23/2024.
Dosimeters are required on the experiment floor, and everyone accessing the floor must have up-to-date GERT certification. Some areas of the floor may still be considered radiation areas. Access may be restricted to those areas for an undetermined period. Please pay attention and follow local signage.
On September 1, 2023 the National Science Foundation announced a $35 million award to the University of Chicago to operate SEES: Synchrotron Earth and Environmental Science. The mission of SEES is to advance research and education in synchrotron-based Earth and environmental science to better understand our planet from the atmosphere to the core, to address societally relevant problems, and to train the next generation of scientists. SEES will manage, operate, and enhance multiple user facilities hosted at four DOE-operated US synchrotrons: Advanced Photon Source (APS), Advanced Light Source (ALS), National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), and Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL).
https://new.nsf.gov/news/nsf-announces-new-award-synchrotron-earth
https://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/sees/
Recent Publications
Dynamic Inhibition of Calcite Dissolution in Flowing Acidic Pb2+ Solutions
Bektur Abdilla, Sang Soo Lee, Paul Fenter, Neil C. Sturchio, "Dynamic Inhibition of Calcite Dissolution in Flowing Acidic Pb2+ Solutions," Environ....
Extending carbon chemistry at high-pressure by synthesis of CaC2 and Ca3C7 with deprotonated polyacene- and para-poly(indenoindene)-like nanoribbons
Khandarkhaeva, S., Fedotenko, T., Aslandukova, A. et al. Extending carbon chemistry at high-pressure by synthesis of CaC2 and Ca3C7 with...
Pressure-induced phase transitions in Ni-bearing ferrosilite (Ni-En31Fs65)
Xu, Jingui, Fan, Dawei, Zhang, Dongzhou, Li, Bo, Zhou, Wenge and Dera, Przemyslaw. "Pressure-induced phase transitions in Ni-bearing ferrosilite...
Mapping the redox state of the young Solar System using ytterbium valence state
Tahar Hammouda, Paul Frossard, Maud Boyet, Audrey Bouvier, Matthew Newville, Antonio Lanzirotti, "Mapping the redox state of the young Solar System...
Synchrotron-based techniques for elemental analysis in soil-plant system under polluted environment
Kirichkov, Mikhail; Burachevskaya, Marina; Mandzhieva, Saglara; Minkina, Tatiana; Rajput, Vishnu D.; N, Synchrotron-based techniques for elemental...
GSECARS has organized an exciting session at the Goldschmidt Conference 2024 in Chicago entitled “2b – Deep planetary interiors: new experimental and analytical approaches ” . This session will highlight cutting-edge achievements in static and dynamic experimental methods as well as novel analytical approaches that address a variety of physical and chemical properties of minerals, that enhance our understanding of the evolution, structure and dynamics of the Earth’s interior and that of other planetary bodies.
Science Highlights
Single-crystal X-ray diffraction on the structure of (Al,Fe)-bearing bridgmanite in the lower mantle
Suyu Fu, Stella Chariton, Yanyao Zhang, Takuo Okuchi, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Jung-Fu Lin; Single-crystal X-ray diffraction on the structure of...
Composition and metabolism of microbial communities in soil pores
Li, Z., Kravchenko, A.N., Cupples, A. et al. Composition and metabolism of microbial communities in soil pores. Nat Commun 15, 3578 (2024).
Fast Seismic Anomalies Under Continents Explained by the Delaminated Lower Continental Crust—Implications From High Pressure-Temperature Elasticity of Jadeite
Hao, M., Zhou, W.Y., Dera, P., Schmandt, B., Zhang, D., & Zhang, J. S. (2024). Fast seismic anomalies under continents explained by the...
High-Pressure Behavior of Ferromagnesite (Mg0.81Fe0.19)CO3 by Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction and Raman Spectroscopy up to 53 GPa
Liang, L., Zhang, G., Huang, S. et al. High-Pressure Behavior of Ferromagnesite (Mg0.81Fe0.19)CO3 by Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction and Raman...
High-pressure high-temperature synthesis of NdRe2
Hussein Z, Kazemiasl N, Hussaini K, Vaquero L, Barkova O, Drozd V, Chariton S, Prakapenka V and Chuvashova I (2024), High-pressure high-temperature...
Early-onset of pressure-induced metallization in iron-doped multilayered molybdenum disulfide
Chih-Ming Lin, Der-Yuh Lin, Jenh-Yih Juang, Tony Huang, Dong-Zhou Zhang, Yi-Jia Tsai, Sheng-Rui Jian, Joon-Seok Kim, Jung-Fu Lin; Early-onset of...
Exciton engineering of 2D Ruddlesden–Popper perovskites by synergistically tuning the intra and interlayer structures
Guo, S., Mihalyi-Koch, W., Mao, Y. et al. Exciton engineering of 2D Ruddlesden–Popper perovskites by synergistically tuning the intra and interlayer...
Latest Happenings at GSECARS
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.
UofC and FIU researchers working on Advanced optical system for studying materials at extreme conditions and their synthesis at FIU
Computed Microtomography in a Triaxial Cell
GSE staff Y. Wang, M. Yakovlev, M. Rivers, T. Officer, Wenlu Zhu U MD using...