by on Monday, June 4, 2018
Kelsey Nichols from the Global Environmental Science program at the University of Hawaii joined our group to conduct a nine-week summer research program supported by the NSF REU program- ESVI: Earth Science on Volcanic Islands at the Department of Geology and Geophysics of the University of Hawaii. Welcome Kelsey
She will be synthesizing large nano-crystalline diamond from graphite using the multi-anvil press in the mineral physics laboratory. The synthesized diamonds will be probed by X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy and Transmission Electron Microprobe. The synthesized diamond will have potential academic and industrial applications.