The Eras of Stony Brook High Pressure Ultrasonics
[1988-1996] - Vibrate Real Mantle (P ~ 3 GPa, room T, in
collaboration with ANU)
[1996- 1998] - Great Success (Stony Brook's success to P >
14 GPa at room T)
[1998-2004] - Dazzling Dual (Simultaneous ultrasonics + X-ray,
Dual mode transducers)
[2004-present] – Technology Transfer (Collaborating with Scientists
Worldwide)
Publications in chronological order:
1988
Rigden, I. Jackson, H. Niesler,
A. E. Ringwood, and R. C. Liebermann, Pressure dependence of elastic wave
velocities for Mg2GeO4 spinel to 3 Gpa, Geophys. Res. Letters, 15, 605-608, 1988.
1990
Gwanmesia, G., R. C. Liebermann, and F. Guyot, Hot-pressing and characterization of polycrystals of beta-Mg2SiO4 for acoustic velocity measurements,
Geophys. Res. Lett.,
17, 1331-1334, 1990.
Gwanmesia, G. D., S. Rigden,
I. Jackson, and R. C. Liebermann, Pressure dependence of elastic wave velocity
for ?-Mg2SiO4 and the composition of the Earth's mantle, Science, 250, 794-797,
1990.
1991
Rigden, Sally, M., G. D. Gwanmesia,
J. D. FitzGerald, I. Jackson and R. C. Liebermann,
Spinel elasticity and seismic structure of the transition zone of the mantle,
Nature, 354, 143-145, 1991.
1992
Gwanmesia, G. D., and R. C. Liebermann, Polycrystals of high-pressure phases of mantle minerals:
Hot-pressing and characterization of physical properties, in High Pressure
Research: Applications to Earth and Planetary Sciences, ed. by Y. Syono and M. H. Manghnani, pp
117-135, Terra Scientific Publishing Co., Tokyo/American Geophysical Union,
Washington, D. C., 1992.
Rigden, S. M., G. Gwanmesia,
I. Jackson, and R. C. Liebermann, Pressure dependence of elasticity of
high-pressure Mg2SiO4 polymorphs and constraints on the composition of the
transition zone of the Earth's mantle, in High Pressure Research: Applications
to Earth and Planetary Sciences, ed. by Y. Syono and
M. H. Manghnani, pp 167-182, Terra Scientific
Publishing Co., Tokyo/American Geophysical Union, Washington, D. C., 1992..
1993
Gwanmesia, G.D., B. Li and
R. C. Liebermann, Hot pressing of polycrystals of
high pressure phases of mantle minerals in mulit
anvil apparatus, PAGEOPH, 141, 467-484, 1993.
1994
Rigden, S. M, G. D. Gwanmesia
and R. C. Liebermann, Elastic wave velocities of a pyrope-majorite
garnet to 3 GPa, Phys. Earth Planet Interiors, 84, 35-44, 1994.
1996
Li, Baosheng, Sally M. Rigden, and Robert C.
Liebermann. "Elasticity of stishovite at high
pressure." Phys. Earth Planet. Interiors, 96 113-127, 1996.
Li, B., I. Jackson, T. Gasparik and R. C. Liebermann,
Elastic wave velocity measurement in multi-anvil apparatus to 110 GPa using
ultrasonic interferometry, Phys. Earth Planet. Interiors, 98,
79-91, 1996.
Li, B., G. D. Gwanmesia and R. C.
Liebermann, Sound velocities of olivine and beta polymorphs of Mg2SiO4, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23,
2259-2262, 1996.
Chen, G., B. Li and R. C. Liebermann, Selected elastic moduli of single crystal
olivines from ultrasonic experiments to mantle
pressures, Science, 272, 979-980, 1996.
1998
Li, B., G. Chen, G. D. Gwanmesia and R. C.
Liebermann, Sound velocity measurements at mantle transition zone conditions of
pressure and temperature using ultrasonic interferometry in a multi-anvil
apparatus, in Properties of Earth & Planetary Materials at High Pressure &
Temperature, edited by M. H. Manghnani, Y. Syono and T. Yagi, 41-61,1998.
Flesch, L. C., B. Li and R. C. Liebermann, Sound
velocities inpolycrystalline MgSiO3-orthopyroxene to
10 GPa at room temperature, Am. Mineralogist, 83, 444-450, 1998.
Sinelnikov, Y.D., G. Chen,
and R.C. Liebermann, Elasticity of CaTiO3-CaSiO3 perovskites, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 25,
515-521, 1998.
Liebermann, R.C., G. Chen, B. Li, G.D.
Gwanmesia, J. Chen, M.T.
Vaughan, and D.J. Weidner, Sound Velocity
Measurements in Oxides and Silicates at Simultaneous High Pressures and
Temperatures using Ultrasonic Techniques in Multi-Anvil Apparatus in
Conjunction with Synchrotron X-radiation Determination of Equation of State, in
The Review of High Pressure Science & Technology, Vol. 7, 75-78, 1998.
Chen, G., R.C. Liebermann, and D.J.
Weidner, Elasticity of Single Crystal MgO to 8 Gigapascals
and 1600 Kelvin, Science, 280, 1913-1916, 1998.
Li, B., R.C. Liebermann, and D.J.
Weidner, Elastic Moduli of Wadsleyite (?-Mg2SiO4) 7 GPa
and 873 Kelvin, Science, 291, 675-677, 1998.
Sinelnikov, Y.D., G. Chen, D.R. Neuville, and R.C. Liebermann, Ultrasonic shear velocities of
MgSiO3-perovskite at high pressure and temperature and lower mantle
composition, Science, 281, 677-679, 1998.
Gwanmesia, G. D., G. Chen, and R. C. Liebermann,
Sound velocities in (MgSiO3)-majorite garnet to 8 GPa,
Geophys. Res. Lett., 25,
4553-4556, 1998.
Liebermann, R. C., and B. Li, Elasticity at high pressures and temperatures,
Ch. 15, pp. 459-492, Reviews of Mineralogy, Vol. 37, ed. by R. J. Hemley, Mineralogical Society of America, 1998.
Parise, J.B., D.J. Weidner, J. Chen, R.C.
Liebermann, and G. Chen, In situ studies of the properties of materials under
high pressure and temperature conditions using multi-anvil apparatus and
synchrotron x-rays, Annual Reviews of Materials Science, 28, 349-374, 1998
1999
Chen, G., J.A. Cooke, Jr., G.D.
Gwanmesia, and R.C.
Liebermann, Elastic Wave Velocities of Mg3Al2Si3O12-Pyrope Garnet to 10 GPa,
Am. Mineralogist, 84, 384-388, 1999.
2000
Kung, J., S. Rigden, and G. Gwanmesia,
Elasticity of ScAlO3 at high pressure, Phys. Earth Planet. Interiors, 118, 65-75, 2000.
Kung, J., S. M. Rigden, and I. Jackson, Silicate
perovskite analogue ScAlO3: temperature dependence of elastic moduli, Phys.
Earth Planet. Interiors, 120, 299-314, 2000.
Liebermann, R. C., Elasticity of mantle minerals: Experimental studies, Ch. 7
in AGU Monograph on "Earth's Deep Interior:
Mineral Physics and Tomography from the Atomic to the Global Scale, ed. by S. Karato, , Geophysical Monograph 117, pp. 181-199, 2000.
Decremps, F. B. Li, and R. C. Liebermann,
Single-crystal elasticity of ZnO at high pressure,
Proceedings of AIRAPT Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii,
July 1999. Vol. 2, pp. 810-813, in Science and Technology and High Pressure,
edited by M. H. Manghnani, W. J. Nellis,
and M. F. Nicol, 2 volumes, 1117 pages, 2000.
Gwanmesia, G. D., J. Liu, G. Chen, S. Kesson, S. M. Rigden, and R. C.
Liebermann, Elasticity of the pyrope
(Mg3Al2Si3O12)-majorite (MgSiO3) garnets solid solution, Phys. Chem. Minerals,
27, 445-452, 2000
Li, B., and R. C. Liebermann, Sound velocities of wadsleyite
ß-(Mg0.88Fe0.12)2SiO4 to 10 GPa, Am. Mineralogist, 85, 292-295, 2000.
Liu, J., G. Chen, G. D. Gwanmesia, and R. C.
Liebermann, Elastic wave velocities of pyrope-majorite
garnets (Py62Mj38 and Py50Mj50) to 9 GPa, Phys. Earth
Planet. Interiors, 120, 153-163, 2000.
Decremps, F., J. Zhang, and R. C. Liebermann, New
phase boundary and high pressure thermoelasticity of ZnO,
Europhysics Letters, 51, 268-274 ,
2000.
2001
Decremps, F. J. Zhang, B. Li, and R. C. Liebermann,
Pressure-induced softening of shear modes in ZnO,
Phys. Rev. B, 63, 224105, 2001.
Li, B., R. C. Liebermann, and D. J. Weidner, P-V-VP-VS-T measurements on
wadsleyite to 7 GPa and 873 K: Implications for the
410-km seismic discontinuity, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 30,575-30,591, 2001.
2002
Li, B., K. Chen, J. Kung, R. C. Liebermann, and D. J. Weidner, Sound velocity
measurement using transfer function method, Proceedings of AIRAPT
Conference, Beijing, July 2001, J. Physics Condensed Matter, 14, 11337-11342,
2002.
Kung, J., B. Li, D. J. Weidner, J. Zhang and R. C. Liebermann, Elasticity of
(Mg 0.83 Fe 0.17)O ferropericlase at high pressure: Ultrasonic measurements in
conjunction with X-radiation techniques, Earth Planet. Sci.
Lett., 203, 557-566, 2002.
2003
Li, B., Compressional and shear wave velocity of Ringwoodite gamma-Mg2SiO4 to
12 GPa, American Mineralogist, 88, 1312-1317
Li, B., M.T. Vaughan, and D.J.
Weidner, Direct length measurements using X-radiography for the determination
of acoustic velocities at high pressure and tempeture,
Rev. Sci. Instrum.,
submitted for publication, September, 2002.
2004
Darling, K.L., G.D. Gwanmesia, J. Kung, B. Li, and R.C.
Liebermann, Ultrasonic measurements of the sound velocities in polycrystalline
San Carlos olivine in multi-anvil, high-pressure apparatus, Phys. Earth Planet.
Interiors, 143-144, 19-31, 2004.
Li, B., J. Kung, and R.C. Liebermann, Modern
techniques in measuring elasticity of Earth materials at high pressure and high
temperature using ultrasonics in conjunction with synchrotron X-radiation,
Phys. Earth Planet. Interiors, 143-144, 559-574, 2004.
Sinelnikov, Y.D., G. Chen,
and R.C. Liebermann, Dual mode ultrasonic interferometry
in multi-anvil high-pressure apparatus using single crystal olivine as the
pressure standard, International Journal of High Pressure Research, 24,
183-191, 2004.
Kung, J., B. Li, T. Uchida, Y. Wang, D. Neuville, and
R. C. Liebermann, In situ measurements of sound velocities and densities across
the orthopyroxene->high-pressure clinopyroxene transition in MgSiO3 at high
pressure, Phys. Earth Planet. Interiors, 147, 27-44, 2004.
2005
Kung, J., B. Li, T. Uchida, and Y. Wang, In-situ elasticity measurement for the
unquenchable high?pressure
clinopyroxene phase: Implication for the upper mantle, Geophys.
Res. Letters, 32, L01307, 2005.
Li, B., J. Kung, T. Uchida, and Y. Wang, Pressure calibration to 20 GPa by
simultaneous use of ultrasonic and x-ray techniques, J. Appl.
Phys., 98, 013521, 2005.
Li, B., J. Kung, T. Uchida, and Y. Wang, Simultaneous equation of state,
pressure calibration and sound velocity measurements to lower mantle pressures
using multi-anvil apparatus, pp. 49-66, in Frontiers in High Pressure Research:
Geophysical Applications, edited by J. Chen, Y. Wang, T. Duffy, G. Shen and L. Dobrzhinetskaya,
Elsevier Publications, New York, 2005.
Liu, W., J. Kung, and B. Li, Elasticity of San Carlos olivine to 8 GPa and
1073K, Geophys. Res. Letters, 32, L16301, 2005.
Li, B., and J. Zhang, Pressure and temperature dependence of elastic wave
velocity of MgSiO3 perovskite and the composition of the lower mantle, Phys.
Earth Planet. Interiors, 151, 143-154, 2005.
Sondergeld, P., B. Li, J. Schreuer,
and M. A. Carpenter, Discontinuous evolution of single crystal elastic
constants as a function of pressure through the C2/c <-> P21/c phase
transition in spodumene, LiAlSi2O6, J. Geophys. Res., submitted for publication, July 2005.
Pantea, C.
D. G. Rickel, A. Migliori,
R. G. Leisure, J. Zhang, Y. Zhao, S. El-Khatib, and B.Li, Digital ultrasonic pulse-echo overlap system and
algorithm for unambiguous determination of pulse transit time, Rev. Sci. Instr., 76, 114902, 2005.
2006
Gwanmesia, G. D., J. Zhang, K. Darling, J. Kung, B.
Li, L. Wang, D. Neuville, and R. C. Liebermann,
Elasticity of polycrystalline pyrope (Mg3Al2Si3O12)
to 9 GPa and 1000~C, Phys, Earth Planet. Interiors, 155,
179-190, 2006.
Kung, J., B. Li, and R. C. Liebermann, Ultrasonic observations of elasticity
changes across phase transformations in Mg SiO3 pyroxenes, J. Phys. Chem.
Solids, 67, 2051-2055, 2006.
Li, B., K. Woody, and J. Kung, Elasticity of MgO to 11 GPa
with an independent absolute pressure scale: Implications for pressure calibration,
J. Geophys. Res. 111, B11206, doi:10,1029/2005JB004251,
2006.
Liu, W., and B. Li, Thermal equation of state of
(Mg0.9Fe0.1)2SiO4 olivine, Phys, Earth Planet. Interiors, 157, 188-195,
2006
Carpenter, M. A., P. Sondergeld, B. Li, J. W. Walsh,
J. Schreuer, T. W. Darling and R. C. Liebermann,
Structural evolution, strain and elasticity of perovskites
at high pressures and temperatures, Plenary Lecture at IMA
Meeting in Kobe, Japan, July 2006, , J. Mineralogical and Petrological
Sciences, 101, 95-109, 2006.
Higo, Y., T. Inoue, B. Li, T. Irifune
and R. C. Liebermann, The effect of iron on the elastic properties of
ringwoodite at high pressure, Phys. Earth Planet. Interiors,
159, 276-285, 2006.
2007
Liu, W., and B. Li, Compressional and shear-wave velocities of the
polycrystalline CaGeO3 perovskite to 10 GPa, Phys. Rev B, 75, 024107, 2007.
Gwanmesia, G. D., I. Jackson, and R. C. Liebermann,
In search of the mixed derivative ?2M/?P?T (M = G, K): joint analysis of
ultrasonic data for polycrystalline pyrope from gas-
and solid-medium apparatus, Phys. Chem. Minerals, DOI
10.1007/s00269-006-0130-x, 2007.
Carpenter, M. A., B. Li, R. C. Liebermann, Elastic anomalies accompanying phase
transitions in (Ca, Sr)TiO3 perovskites III: Experimental investigation of
polycrystalline samples, Am. Mineralogist, 92, 344-355, 2007.
Antao, S. M., Ian Jackson, Baosheng Li, Jennifer
Kung, Jiuhua Chen, Ishmael Hassan,
Robert C. Liebermann, and John B. Parise,
High-temperature elasticity of magnesioeferrite
spinel, Phys. Chem. Minerals, DOI
10.1007/s00269-007-0152-z, 2007
Li, B., and R. C. Liebermann, Indoor seismology by probing the Earth's interior
by using sound velocity measurements at high pressures and temperatures, Proc.
National Acad. Sci., 104, 9145-9150, 2007
Liu, W., B. Li, L. Wang, J. Zhang, Y. Zhao. Elasticity of
omega-phase zirconium. Physical Review B, 2007, 76,
144107.
Liu, W., J. Kung, L. Wang, B. Li. Thermal equation of state of CaGeO3
perovskite. American Mineralogist, 2007 (accepted).
Liu, W., J. Kung, B. Li, N. Nishiyama,
Y. Wang. Elasticity of (Mg0.87Fe0.13)2SiO4 wadsleyite to 12 GPa and 1073 K. Physics of the Earth and Planetary
Interiors, 2007 (submitted).
2008
Antao, S., C.J. Benmore, B. Li, , L. Wang,
S.K. Lee, J. Lin, Yong Cai,
Zhang, J., B. Li, Y. Zhao (2008) Pressure-induced shear-mode elastic
softening in orthorhombic BaCe1-xYxO3-0.5x perovskite, High Pressure Research,
28, No. 3, 415–421.
Schneider, B., W. Liu, B. Li (2008) Searching for Post Perovskite
Transition in CaSnO3 at High Pressure: An Ultrasonic Velocity Study to 18 GPa, High Pressure Research, 28:3,397-404
Whitaker, M., W., Liu, Q. Liu, L. Wang, B. Li (2008),Combined in situ
synchrotron X-ray diffraction and ultrasonic interferometry study of -FeSi at high
pressure and temperature, High Pressure Research, 28:3,385-395.
Liu, Q.,
Liu, W., L. Wang, B. Li, J. Zhang, Y. Zhao (2008),
Ultrasonic study of Zr across a-w
phase transition, J App. Phy., (available on line
October, 2008).
Wu, Z., R. Wentzcovictch, K. Umemoto, B. Li, K. Hirose (2008), PVT
relations in MgO: an ultra-high P-T scale for planetary science applications, J
Geophys Res. ,113, B06204,
doi:10.1029/2007JB005275.
Liu W., J. Kung, L. Wang, B. Li (2008) Thermoelasticity of CaGeO3 to 10
GPa 1273K, Am. Min.,; 93; no. 5-6; p. 745-750; DOI:
10.2138/am.2008.2428.
Higo, Y., T. Inoue, T. Irifune, K. Funakoshi, B. Li (2008) Elastic wave velocities
of (Mg0.91Fe0.09)2SiO4 ringwoodite under P-T condition of the mantle transition
region, Phys Earth. Planet Interi.
, 66, 167-174.
Bass, J.,
2009
Liu, W., Q., Liu, M. Whitaker, L. Wang, B. Li (2009), Experimental and
theoretical studies on the elasticity of molybdenum to 12 GPa, J. App. Phy.,
106, 043506.
Li, B., On the characteristics of lateral
heterogeneities with thermal and chemical origins in pyrolite lower mantle
(2009), Progress in Natural Sciences
(in press).
Uchida, T., Y. Wang, N. Nishiyama, K. Funakoshi, H. Kenko, A. Nozawa, R van Dreele, M. Rivers, S. R. Sutton, A. Yamada, A. Kumimoto, T. Irifune, T. Inoue, B. Li (2009) Non-cubic crystal symmetry of CaSiO3 perovskite up to 18 GPa 1600K, Earth Planet Sci. Lett, 282, 268-274.
Whitaker, M., A Journey to the Center of the Earth: Iron and Iron/Light-Element
Alloys at Extreme Conditions and Their Implications for the Earth's Core, Ph.D thesis, SUNY Stony Brook,
2009.
Liu, X.,
Q. Liu, W. Liu, M. Whitaker, L. Wang, B. Li (2009) Ultrasonic study of
fayalite-spinel phase transition at high pressure, Am. Min. (submitted).
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