FORCE updates

On April 9, we conducted the first and second experiments in Twister, our high pressure torsion press from Riken Enterprise. Experiment T0001 was an Al test disk. T0002 was a pellet made of pressed Fe powder. We will use the information we learned from these experiments to better inform future procedures.

Phase 1 construction of the FORCE High Pressure Lab, located in Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building 2 (ISTB2) on the ASU Tempe campus, was completed at the end of December 2023. During this phase of the project…

On January 3–4, 2024, FORCE held its 2nd Winter Workshop on Recent Advances in High Pressure Research. Over 50 attendees convened in Tempe, AZ to…

On Sept. 5, apparatus installation began. This process was coordinated with CORE Construction, Enprotech, Bragg, Sumotomo, and ASU.

An interdisciplinary team of scientists led by Arizona State University has received a $5.7 million award from NASA’s Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (NExSS) program to to predict the range of rocky exoplanet compositions and provide expertise on the design and operation of space telescopes designed to look for life on exoplanets.

The U.S. is about to open a new window into Earth’s mysterious insides “Crushing and blasting rocks in the lab helps scientists re-create the high-pressure, scorching-hot conditions of unreachably deep portions of planets”

The Workshop will be held at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ, USA. For program information and to indicate your interest, please fill out the form below by August 9. We need an estimate of likely attendance to choose appropriate venues and assess realistic registration costs and the possibility of student travel grant opportunities.

Alex Navrotsky, director of the Navrotsky Eyring Center for Materials of the Universe, will be honored at conferences in three countries this year in recognition of her accomplishments and her 80th birthday.

In this issue:

• About FORCE
• Groundbreaking ceremony
• Ichiban passes final testing
• More news
• Seminar 5/19: Yingwei Fei

On January 4, 2023, FORCE held its first Workshop, entitled “ASU Winter Workshop on Recent Developments in High Pressure Research”.

“Her pioneering work and expertise in the fields of thermochemistry of minerals and solid-state matter push the boundaries of knowledge in materials while training the next generation of scientists in this field,” says Kenro Kusumi, Dean of Natural Sciences in The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

NSF has just announced the award of $13.7 million to ASU to build a one-of-a-kind high-pressure research facility, Facility for Open Research in a Compressed Environment (FORCE).