“The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
the one that heralds new discoveries,
is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny…”
Isaac Asimov
experimental rock deformation
“The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
the one that heralds new discoveries,
is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny…”
Isaac Asimov
Our new paper on the development of “An ultrasound probe array for a high-pressure, high-temperature solid medium apparatus” was just published in Review of Scientific Instruments. Hamed has been working on this project very hard and it is great to see the results published! We managed to integrate several piezoelectric sensors along the loading axis …
Mitigating climate change is arguably one of the largest scientific challenges of our generation. Matej has recently received seed funding with Prof. Shuhei Ono, Dr. Nori Nakata nad Dr. Steven Brown to further the understanding of the influence of carbonate mineralization on the mechanical and transport properties of basalts. Read more about the project on …
Continue reading “New MITei CCUS seed funding for carbon storage in basaltic rocks for the lab”
A new paper co-authored by Matej Pec, Ben Holtzman, Mark Zimmerman and David Kohlstedt on “The Influence of Lithology on Reactive Melt Flow Channelization” is published in GGG. We conducted a series of Darcy-flow type experiments at high pressures and temperatures and observed how feedback between reaction and melt flow lead to the development of …
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