Washington, DC— A long-sought-after class of “superdiamond” carbon-based materials with tunable mechanical and electronic properties was predicted and synthesized by Carnegie’s Li Zhu and Timothy Strobel.
Washington, DC— Every school child learns about the water cycle—evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection.
New materials can contribute potential solutions to many societal issues—from increasing access to clean drinking water to improving solar panel efficiency.
Dr. Kai Luo is a Postdoctoral Fellow at GL who is working with Dr. Ron Cohen on a computation study of the Earth's core.
Geophysical Laboratory Staff Scientist Dr. Sally June Tracy applies cutting edge experimental and analytical techniques to interrogate the fundamental physical behavior of materials at extreme conditions.
Lab-based mimicry allowed an international team of physicists including the Geophysical Laboratory’s Alexander Goncharov to probe hydrogen under the conditions found in the interiors of giant planets—where experts believe it gets squeezed until it becomes a liquid metal, capable of conducting electricity. Their work is published in Science.
Blue diamonds—like the world-famous Hope Diamond at the National Museum of Natural History—formed up to four times deeper in the Earth’s mantle than most other diamonds, according to new work by Carnegie’s Steven Shirey, Emma Bullock, and Jianhua Wang and published on the cover of Nature.
Irina Chuvashova joins the Geophysical Laboratory as a postdoctoral associate, previously from LSPM-CNRS Universite Paris Nord. She is working with Alex Goncharov on high-pressure investigations of transport and elastic properties of the Earth's minerals. Additionally, she is interested in sintering materials with different defined properties using various methods, especially high pressure and analytical techniques.
