Dr. Oded Navon of The Fredy & Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem presented on "Diamond forming fluids: Diamond formation and other mantle processes."
Josh Sugar from Sandia National Laboratories presented on "The Thermal History of Materials: The Origin of Earth, Civilization, and Advanced Manufacturing."
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.
New work from a team led by the Geophysical Laboratory’s Alexander Goncharov confirms that nitrogen, the dominant gas in Earth’s atmosphere, becomes a metallic fluid when subjected to the extreme pressure and temperature conditions found deep inside the Earth and other planets. Their findings are published by Nature Communications.
The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Maosheng Miao of California State University, Northridge. He will present, "Chemical trends of elements under pressure and their effects to the form and properties of materials."
The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Leonid Dubrovinsky of the University of Bayreuth. He will present, "High-Pressure High-Temperature Single Crystal Structural Studies at Multimegabar Pressures."
The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with Kristin Persson of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She will present, "The Materials Project for Accelerated Materials Design."
The Geophysical Laboratory’s Tim Strobel and Venkata Bhadram now report unexpected quantum behavior of hydrogen molecules, H2, trapped within tiny cages made of organic molecules, demonstrating that the structure of the cage influences the behavior of the molecule imprisoned inside it.
The paradox of the missing xenon might sound like the title of the latest airport thriller, but it’s actually a problem that’s stumped geophysicists for decades. New work from an international team including the Geophysical Laboratory’s Alexander Goncharov and Hanyu Liu, and GL alumni Elissaios Stavrou and Sergey Lobanov, is chasing down the solution to this longstanding puzzle.
The Geophysical Laboratory's weekly seminar series continues with GL's own Tim Strobel. He will present, "Braking Rotors at the Nanoscale: How Diatomic Molecules Spin within Quantum Cages."
