COMPRES Science Highlights Archive

This archive includes past and current COMPRES Science Highlights _________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Discovery of a new partially ionic phase of boron
A. R. Oganov et al. from ETH-Zurich (now at Stony Brook University) and a team of co-authors
[in Nature, 2009]
Reporting work done at U2A and X17C at the NSLS

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Posted 4/15/2009

 

Protean Magnetic Properties of Magnetic Oxide
S.-H. Dan Shim et al. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-authors
[in PNAS, 2009]
Reporting work done at XOR-3 at the APS with support from the NRIXS project at UIUC and ANL, and the GSECARS beamline at Sector 13.

 

 

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Posted 4/15/2009

Iron-based Superconductors at High Pressure
J. Zhao et al, from the Harbin Institute of Technology and Institute of Physics of CAS
[in JACS, 2008]
reporting work done at X17B3 at the NSLS

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Posted 1/29/2009

 

The Spin Deep Within the Earth
J.F. Lin from the University of Texas at Austin and co-authors from around the world
[in Nature Geoscience, October 2008]
reporting work done at XOR-3 at the APS with support from the NRIXS project at UIUC and ANL

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Article (pdf)
Posted 1/29/2009

 

Softening of Bulk Modulus during Phase Transitions in the Earth's Mantle
L. Li and D. J. Weidner, from Stony Brook University
[in Nature, 21 August 2008]
reporting work done at X17B2 at the NSLS


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Posted 10/15/2008

How Large is Activation Volume for Olivine?
W. B. Durham et. al., from MIT and University of Minnesota
[PEPI, in press, 2008]
reporting work done at X17B2 at the NSLS using cell assemblies developed in multi-anvil project at ASU

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Posted 10/15/2008

Not All Glasses Behave Like SiO2
S. M. Antao et al. from Stony Brook University and Argonne National Laboratory [in PRL, 21 March 2008]
reporting work done at X17B2 at the NSLS

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Posted 5/9/2008

 

Discovery of Metallic State of Hydrogen Material: Solid Silane
X. Chen et al. from Carnegie Institution of Washington [in PNAS, 8 January 2008}
reporting work done at U2A at the NSLS

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Posted 5/9/2008

 


Iron Alloys and Earth's Core
B. Chen et al. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
[in PNAS, 29 May 2007]
reporting work done at X17C at the NSLS


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Posted 4/7/2008

Brillouin Spectroscopy to 44 GPa
Lakshtanov et al. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
[in PNAS, 21 August 2007]
reporting on ID project at UIUC

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Posted 4/7/2008


Nuclear Waste Disposal Materials
F. Zhang et al. from the Univ of Michigan [in PRL, 1 Feb 2008]
reporting work done at X17C at the NSLS

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Posted 3/12/2008

Metallic Osmium and Iron in Earth's Core
M. Weinberger et al., from UCLA [in PRL, 1 Feb 2008]
reporting on work done at X17C at the NSLS

 


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Posted 3/12/2008

Modified on 15 April 2009