Constraining the core's composition is essential for understanding Earth accretion, core
formation and the sustainment of Earth's magnetic field. Earth's outer and inner core exhibit …

Active research is ongoing that investigates the properties of matter under extreme pressure.
Such condensed matter is found inside planets at millions of atmospheres and thousands of …

Several small dense exoplanets are now known, inviting comparisons to Earth and Venus.
Such comparisons require translating their masses and sizes to composition models of …

Hydrogen is one of the possible alloying elements in the Earth's core, but its siderophile
(iron-loving) nature is debated. Here we experimentally examined the partitioning of …

Polymorphism and polymorphic transitions are attracting considerable interest because of
their significant effect on the phase stability, switchable properties, and the atomic …

Earth's core is structured in a solid inner core, mainly composed of iron, and a liquid outer
core. The temperature at the inner core boundary is expected to be close to the melting point …

The conduction of heat through minerals and melts at extreme pressures and temperatures
is of central importance to the evolution and dynamics of planets. In the cooling Earth's core …

Earth continuously generates a dipole magnetic field in its convecting liquid outer core by a
self-sustained dynamo action. Metallic iron is a dominant component of the outer core, so its …

Over the past 60 years, the diamond anvil cell (DAC) has been developed into a widespread
high static pressure device. The adaptation of laboratory and synchrotron analytical …

Our ability to interpret seismic observations including the seismic discontinuities and the
density and velocity profiles in the earth's interior is critically dependent on the accuracy of …