The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with our own Sergey Lobanov. He will present, "Peeking into the color of the lower mantle: Optical studies of minerals at high P/T.”
Amol Karandikar is a postdoctoral associate working with Tim Strobel and Reinhard Boehler. Amol is interested in high-pressure/high-temperature study of materials and melting temperature measurements. Previously, Amol was a predoctoral associate at the Geophysical Laboratory from 2010-2014.
The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Arianna Gleason from Stanford University. She will present, "Ultrafast X-ray Studies on the Dynamics of Transitions in Planetary Materials."
Washington, DC—Germanium may not be a household name like silicon, its group-mate on the periodic table, but it has great potential for use in next-generation electronics and energy technology.
Of particular interest are forms of germanium that can be synthesized in the lab under extreme pressure conditions. However, one of the most-promising forms of germanium for practical applications, called ST12, has only been created in tiny sample sizes—too small to definitively confirm its properties.
The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Susannah Dorfman of Michigan State University. She will present, "Deep Earth Redox: Iron and Carbon in the Lower Mantle.”
The AGU Fall Meeting 2016 will take place in San Francisco, CA from December 12-17. Many staff members and postdoctoral associates from the Geophysical Laboratory will attend this year.
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The Geophysical Laboratory's Postdoctoral Fellow Shi Liu was awarded the 2017 APS Metropolis Award in late October. The purpose of the award is to recognize doctoral thesis research of outstanding quality and achievement in computational physics and to encourage effective written and oral presentation of research results.
Washington, DC— New work from a team led by the Geophysical Laboratory's Alexander Goncharov has created a new extremely incompressible carbon nitride compound. They say it could be the prototype for a whole new family of superhard materials, due to the unexpected ratio of carbon and nitrogen atoms. Their work is published in the journal Chemistry of Materials.
Li Zhu joins the Geophysical Laboratory as a postdoctoral associate from the University of Basel. Li is working with Timothy Strobel on the development of a reaction pathway prediction method to be able to apply the method and predict reaction pathways and transition states.
Washington, DC— For the first time, researchers, including GL's Viktor Struzhkin, have experimentally produced a new class of materials blending hydrogen with sodium that could alter the superconductivity landscape and could be used for hydrogen-fuel cell storage.
