Paris-Edinburgh (PE) press combined with angle dispersive X-ray diffraction at 13-ID-C beamline for material structure measurements
An example of the diffraction rings collected for a crystalline material using the online software Dioptas, from Yu et al. (2019)
Structure measurements on melts and glasses
Recently, I am also starting to work on projects for structure measurements on amorphous materials. The physical properties of melts in planetary interiors are ultimately controlled by their atomic structures. Thus, understanding the structure-property relationship is of vital importance to the prediction of planetary melt behavior at extreme conditions and the understanding of the microscopic mechanism controlling the changes of properties of melt. I just got my first dataset on carbonate melt structure a few weeks ago. These data would help us get a deeper understanding on the fate of subducted carbonate melts in the Earth's mantle from the atomic level. Stay tuned for my results!