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Capturing high pressures in diamond capsules
Scientists have created diamond capsules that can entrap other phases and preserve high pressure conditions even after returning the capsules to low pressure.
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‘Fingerprinting’ minerals to better understand how they are affected by meteorite collisions
Researchers mimicked these extreme impacts in the lab and discovered new details about how they transform minerals in Earth’s crust.
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Squeezing a rock-star material could make it stable enough for solar cells
Scientists have discovered how to stabilize a promising lead halide perovskite with pressure from a diamond anvil cell.
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Researchers recreate deep-Earth conditions to see how iron copes with extreme stress
New observations of the atomic structure of iron reveal it undergoes "twinning" under extreme stress and pressure.
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Sulgi receives 2021 Jamieson Award
Sulgiye Park, PhD ’18, has been recognized for her PhD and postdoctoral work on understanding a wide array of functional materials at extreme environments.
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Hunting down clues to Earth's early molten days
Learning how liquid silicates behave at extreme temperatures and pressures has been a longstanding challenge in the geosciences.
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Stanford research maps a faster, easier way to build diamond
Sulgi, Wendy, and Yu's Science Advances paper featured in Stanford Earth Matters