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Highlights: Matter at Extremes
- New research reveals Earth's ancient 'breath'
- EXAFS helps to unveil the spin-phonon coupling strength in a spintronic material
- Chemistry under sheer force
- The dense methane-hydrogen system yields a record-breaking compound containing over 50% hydrogen by weight
- Observing hot dense superionic water
- Scientists synthesise new materials at terapascal pressures for the first time
- Australopithecus sediba is back at the ESRF – and this time he’s not alone!
- The reign of the dinosaurs ended in spring
- 5 ways the ESRF’s research is helping tackle climate change
- Early dinosaurs were sociable
- Platinum hitches a ride with sulfur in the Earth’s crust
- Carbon trapped in ocean floor rocks mostly sinks into the deep Earth
- Where did life originate on Earth? Ancient hot springs under the seafloor could have the answer
- New fossil sheds light on the evolution of how dinosaurs breathed
- ESRF user awarded ERC advanced grant
- High-pressure synthesis of phosphine from the elements and the discovery of the missing (PH3)2H2 tile
- Hard X-ray spectroscopy with “Newton’s prism”
- Evolution of the elastic properties of glassy amber in 110 million years measured by inelastic X-ray scattering
- Determination of the kinetic constants of chemical reactions in the millisecond timescale by coupled XAS and UV/Vis spectroscopy
- Revealing the structure of nitrogen’s most complex polymorph
- Iron sesquioxide under pressure: formation of a new iron oxide polymorph
- Elastic properties of molecular spin-crossover solids investigated by synchrotron techniques and by MEMS technology
- FeSi: a new building block for iron-based superconductivity
- Oxidised garnets from the Earth’s transition zone
- Did Plate tectonics aid the development of life on Earth?
- Localisation and speciation of impurities in deactivated petrochemical heterogeneous catalysts
- Superradiance of an ensemble of nuclei excited by a free electron laser
- Interlayer bond formation in black phosphorus at high pressure
- Sudden shifts sharpen X-ray pulses
- Synthesis of FeH5 under pressure: dense atomic metal hydrogen stabilised with Fe
- Redox processes in Fe catalysts resolved by XAS and UV/Vis spectroscopy
- Redox-active MOF for reversible capture and release of halogens
- Stable subnanometric platinum catalyst characterised by XAS
- First users on brand new beamline ID15
- #weekendusers Resolving the mystery of the Earth’s missing gas
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards extreme-conditions users
- In search of the missing xenon
- New phenomenon in old material: giant spin-phonon interaction unveiled in EuO
- Where science never sleeps
- Observation of superconductivity in H2S by nuclear resonant scattering
- Diffraction based transmission X-ray microscopy
- In situ studies of palladium nanoparticles during methane oxidation
- Synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy sheds light on the major Cu-species in the Cu-CHA deNOx catalyst
- Bimetallic nanoalloys as highly effective hydrogenation catalysts
- Nuclear resonance scattering clarifies the structure of a pharmacologically relevant iron sulfur protein and its interaction with inhibitors
- Nanosize effect on magnetism
- Unconventional high-Tc superconductivity in fullerides
- Polyamorphism of a Ce-based metallic glass under high pressure
- High Poisson’s ratio of Earth’s inner core explained by carbon alloying
- XAS: a novel approach to determine iron melting at megabar pressures
- Discovery of new high pressure iron oxides points to a large oxygen source in Earth's mantle
- Revealing the molecular structure of kerogen in gas shale
- Nuclear resonance scattering clarifies the structure of a pharmacologically relevant iron sulfur protein and its interaction with inhibitors
- Melting temperature of iron at megabar pressures: a new spectroscopic approach to estimate the Earth inner core boundary temperature
- Record high pressure squeezes secrets out of osmium
- Giant pressure-induced volume collapse in the pyrite mineral MnS2
- Buoyant magmas trigger supervolcano eruptions
- Melting of subducted basalt at the core-mantle boundary
- (N2)3Ne7: a high pressure van der Waals insertion compound
- A new crystal phase of ferrocene
- Diverse chemistry in the magnesium/carbon system
- Hyperfine splitting and room-temperature ferromagnetism of Ni at multimegabar pressure
- Role of disorder in the thermodynamics and atomic dynamics of glasses
- Local fivefold symmetry in liquid and undercooled Ni
- Rate capability enhancement by Ru doping in high voltage lithium-ion battery cathode material LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4
- What drives oscillations in CO oxidation by O2 over Rh/Al2O3 catalysts?
- Probing wave functions in complex oxides with X-rays
- Room-temperature ferromagnetism of nickel at multimegabar pressure
- Iron electronic state and the electrical conductivity of the Earth’s lower mantle
- Reactivity of xenon with ice under planetary conditions
- Does nuclear resonant scattering violate reciprocity?
- High pressure synthesis of high oxidation state metal nitrides using a pre-structured nanocrystalline chemical precursor
- Phonon anomalies and the Verwey transition in magnetite
- The Earth’s Centre is 1000 Degrees Hotter than Previously Thought
- A path to new manganites with perovskite structure
- Scientists probe atomic structure and dynamics of water under deep Earth extreme pressure and temperature conditions
- New structures of carbonates at high pressures and their relevance for the deep Earth carbon cycle
- An exotic form of ice: superionic ammonia
- X-rays illuminate the origin of volcanic hotspots
- Cardiovascular regulatory nitric oxide binding to heme proteins investigated using nuclear resonance scattering
- The role of electron-phonon coupling in understanding the phase diagram of uranium
- Real-space multiple-scattering approach to resonant inelastic X-ray scattering
- Sapphire monochromator for hard X-rays (> 30 keV) with sub-meV bandwidth
- Novel X-ray imaging technique with molecular-bond sensitivity
- New host for carbon in the deep Earth
- Silicon carbonate formed from carbon dioxide and silicon dioxide
- Role of platinum in tin oxide based gas sensors: a study under working conditions
- The role of electron-phonon coupling in understanding the phase diagram of uranium
- Lattice dynamics of cerium metal across the gamma to alpha transition
- Cerium’s unusual behaviour
- Plasmons in sodium under pressure
- Cold melting and solid structures of dense lithium
- Equivalence of the boson peak in glasses to the transverse acoustic van Hove singularity in crystals
- X-rays illuminate the interior of the Moon
- Silicon carbonate phase formed from carbon dioxide and silica under pressure
- Cerium enters a rare and spectacular phase
- Determining the state of Pt in SnO2-based sensors under working conditions
- New synchrotron technique could see hidden building blocks of life
- Why chaos is warmer than order
- Low thermal conductivity of phase-change materials explained through synchrotron studies