COMPRES
Science Highlights Archive
This archive includes past
and current COMPRES Science Highlights _________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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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

Summary
(Word doc)
Article (pdf)
Posted 4/15/2009
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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.

Summary
(Word doc)
Article (pdf)
Posted 4/15/2009
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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

Summary
(Word doc)
Article (pdf)
Posted 1/29/2009
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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

Summary
(Word doc)
Article
(pdf)
Posted 1/29/2009
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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

Summary
(Word doc)
Article (pdf)
Posted 10/15/2008
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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

Summary
(Word doc)
Article
(pdf)
Posted 10/15/2008
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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

Summary
(Word doc)
Article (pdf)
Posted 5/9/2008
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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

Summary
(Word doc)
Article
(pdf)
Posted 5/9/2008
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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

Summary (Word doc)
Article (pdf)
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

Summary
(Word doc)
Article (pdf)
Posted 4/7/2008 |
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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

Summary
(Word doc)
Article (pdf)
Posted 3/12/2008
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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
Summary (Word doc)
Article (pdf)
Posted 3/12/2008 |