Updated PVT Equation of State for Rutile The conclusion of Zaffiro et al. (2019 Mineralogical Magazine, 83, 339–347) that the Mie–Grüneisen–Debye (MGD) Equation of State (EoS) cannot fit the available data for rutile is shown to be incorrect...
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Diamond-Graphene Composite Nanostructures In their latest paper Mara and co-workers describe two new families of diamond-graphene (diaphite) phases constructed from layered and bonded sp3 and sp2 nanostructural units and provide a framework for...
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Dr. Joseph Gonzalez has recently been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Earth Sciences Post-doctoral Fellowship to support his research at the Università degli Studi di Pavia. This award made through the United States National Science...
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Using polarized Raman spectroscopy to study the stress gradient in mineral systems with anomalous birefringence Our PhD student Nicola Campomenosi using experimental results coupled with selected finite element models showed that the ratio...
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Cooling history and emplacement of a pyroxenitic lava as proxy for understanding Martian lava flows Our PhD student Mara Murri at her second Scientific Reports paper for this year! Congratulations!! She has now concluded her studies on the...
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It took overall about three years but we think we now start understanding things. This is science, only 3 years to start understanding. Thank you Mattia Bonazzi for this wonderful opportunity and the brilliant work. Check out Mattia...
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With this new manuscript just published in Journal of Metamorphic Geology Joe has done an excellent job in showing us advantages and limitations of elastic barometry (quartz in garnet) combined with chemical thermometry (Titanium in quartz) to...
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A new brilliant manuscript by Boriana and Naemi that finally revise the phase transition(s) of ZrSiO4 at high pressure conditions. In this manuscript published in Physics and Chemistry of Minerals they present the experimental proof for the...
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Quoting the really nice paragraph by the Editors of American Mineralogist about our paper: “stangaronite….”! Stangarone et al. (page 830) used density functional theory (DFT) simulations of the structures of zircon and reidite...
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In his latest manuscript Gabriele show us how to determine the thermo-elastic behaviour of rutile combining X-ray diffraction data at highP and high T together with direct elastic measurements. The manuscript then presents a series of...
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Gabriele Zaffiro, in his new manuscript presents an assessment of the thermo-elastic behaviour of rutile based on X-ray diffraction data and direct elastic measurements available in literature. Gabriele’s results confirm that the...
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In her latest study Claudia Stangarone carried out ab initio hybrid Hartree-Fock/Density Functional Theory simulations to determine the structure and vibrational modes of zircon, ZrSiO4, as a function of different applied strains. In her...
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