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Project 1
Phase stabilities of carbonates and reaction between carbonates and mantle minerals at high pressures and temperatures studied in the LH-DAC by Raman and time-resolved laser fluorescence spectroscopy
Principal investigators: Dr. Lkhamsuren Bayarjargal and Prof. Dr. Björn Winkler
Project 2
Structural, electronic and thermodynamic properties of carbonates at high pressures and temperatures by in situ spectroscopy and atomic-scale simulations
Principal investigators: Dr. Ilias Efthimiopoulos, Prof. Dr. Sandro Jahn and Prof. Dr. Monika Koch-Müller
Project 3
Electronic structure of Fe/Mg carbonates at conditions of the Earth's lower mantle: Implications for the formation of tetrahedrally coordinated carbon
Principal investigators: Dr. Christian Sternemann and Prof. Dr. Max Wilke
Project 4
X-ray spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction studies of element redistribution processes between carbonates and mantle phases at mantle conditions
Principal investigators: Prof. Dr. Max Wilke and Dr. Karen Appel
Project 6
Elastic properties of carbonates at high pressures and temperatures
Principal investigator: Dr. Catherine McCammon
Project 7
Chemical reactions between carbonates and pyrolite mantle and the origin of ultradeep diamonds
Principal investigators: Prof. Dr. Leonid Dubrovinsky and Prof. Dr. Natalia Dubrovinskaia
Project 8
Phase relations and melting in the system CaCO3–MgCO3 at high pressures and temperatures
Principal investigators: Prof. Dr. Monika Koch-Müller and Dr. Hans Josef Reichmann
Project 9
Elasticity and structure evolution of carbonates at upper mantle conditions
Principal investigators: Dr. Sergio Speziale and Prof. Dr. Björn Winkler