Category: Science Highlights

Resiliency, morphology, and entropic transformations in high-entropy oxide nanoribbons

Hessam Shahbazi et al.  Science 388, 950-956 (2025). DOI: 10.1126/science.adr5604

Direct observations of transient weakening during phase transformations in quartz and olivine

Cross, A.J., Goddard, R.M., Kumamoto, K.M. et al. Nat. Geosci. 18, 548–554 (2025).

Deformation of Hydrous Phases Egg [AlSiO3(OH)], δ [AlO(OH)] and Stishovite [Si1-nH4nO2] Relevant to Anisotropy of the Earth’s Mantle

Kattemalavadi, A.,  Devoe, M., &  Wenk, H.-R. (2025).  Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth,  130, e2025JB031362.

Volatiles and Redox Along the East African Rift

Brounce, M., Scoggins, S., Fischer, T. P., Ford, H., & Byrnes, J. (2024). Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25, e2024GC011657.

Phase transformation of ferric-iron-rich silicate in Earth’s mid-mantle

Lv, M., Zhu, S., Liu, J., Hu, Y., Zhu, F., Lai, X., Zhang, D., Chen, B., Dera, P., Li, J. and Dorfman, S.M., 2024. American Mineralogist. DOI: 10.2138/am-2024-9410