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Our researchers examine the fundamental properties of materials under extreme conditions.

Petrology, Mineralogy, and Mineral Physics
Investigating the origin and dynamic evolution of Earth and planetary interiors, from their crusts to their cores, and the processes that lead to surfaces capable of supporting life.
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Extreme Materials
Utilizing experimental and theoretical approaches to understand fundamental chemical processes and interactions and to create new and advanced technological and energy-related materials.
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New compound a crucial step toward revolutionary energy storage
New, original technique predicts and guides the ordered creation of strong, yet flexible, diamond nanothreads, surmounting several existing challenges.
What forces are at work in the interiors of distant worlds, and how do these conditions affect their potential for habitability?
There wasn’t an even distribution of materials between the outer reaches of the Solar System where the carbonaceous chondrites formed, and the inner Solar System, where we live, new research shows.