DFG Priority Program 1236: 'Strukturen und Eigenschaften von Kristallen bei extrem hohen Drücken und Temperaturen'

List of projects in the period 2009-2012

• High (p,T) properties of wide band-gap semiconductors from second harmonic generation measurements
  (main proposer: Dr. Lkhamsuren Bayarjargal)
• Combining experimental and computational approaches to determine high P and T thermal conductivity of CaGeO₃ and MgSiO₃ perovskite
  (main proposers: Dr. Nico de Koker, Dr. Daniel Frost, Prof. David Rubie)
• Elasticity of iron and iron-based alloys at conditions of the Earth's and planetary cores
  (main proposers: Prof. Leonid Dubrovinsky, PD Dr. Natalia Dubrovinskaia)
• B, B-C and B-N compounds at high pressures and high temperatures
  (main proposers: PD Dr. Natalia Dubrovinskaia , Prof. Leonid Dubrovinsky)
• Ionic and superionic ammonia (main proposer: Dr. Mikhail Eremets)
• High-(p,T) syntheses and characterisation of binary transition metal carbides and nitrides of the period 6 elements with atomic numbers 73-79
  (main proposer: Dr. Alexandra Friedrich)
• Indium oxide (In₂O₃) under high pressure: rational design of new polymorphs and characterisation of their physico-chemical properties
  (main proposers: Dr. Alexander Gurlo, Prof. Hans-Joachim Kleebe, Prof. Ralf Riedel )
• The System Si–Al–O–N at extreme pressures: A synthetic and computational route to novel materials?
  (main proposers: Prof. Gerhard Heide, Prof. Jens Kortus, Prof. Edwin Kroke)
• High pressure and high temperature synthesis and in situ characterization of new compounds with special electronic properties using "lone-pair" oxides, fluorides, sulphides and selenides of elements from groups 14-16 (main proposers: Prof. Martin Jansen, Dr. Thomas Locherer, Prof. Frank Schilling)
• Noble gases in silicate perovskite: Solubility, dissolution mechanism and influence on the equation of state (main proposer:  Prof. Hans Keppler)
• Effect of water in wadsleyite and ringwoodite on the P-T-x coordinates of the wadsleyite-ringwoodite phase transformation: an experimental and thermodynamic study
  (main proposer: Prof. Monika Koch-Mueller)
• High-pressure high-temperature ⁵⁷Fe Mössbauer studies of lower mantle and core minerals
  (main proposers: Dr. Catherine McCammon, Prof. Leonid Dubrovinsky)
• High pressure-induced structural transformations in lead-based perovskite type relaxor ferroelectrics
  (main proposers: Prof. Boriana Mihailova, Prof. Ulrich Bismayer)
• Single-crystal X-ray high-pressure crystallography in excess of 1000oC using new laser and internal heating devices
  (main proposers: Prof. Ronald Miletich-Pawliczek, Prof. Leonid Dubrovinsky)
• Nitride chemistry of geomaterials: Formation, quantum-chemical prediction and characterization, crystal structures and properties of multinary metal nitrides prepared at high pressures (main proposers: Prof. Ralf. Niewa, PD Dr. Ulrich Schwarz, Prof. Richard Dronskowski)
• Magnetic, electronic and structural transitions in iron bearing mineralsunder pressure: Theory and experiment  (main proposer:  PD Dr. Rossitza Pentcheva)
• High-Pressure High-Temperature Synthesis of Novel Binary and Ternary Superhard Phasen in the B-C-N System  (main proposer: Prof. Ralf Riedel)
• High-Pressure Nitridosilicates, Oxonitridosilicates and Nitridophosphates and Related Binary Nitrides (main proposer: Prof. Wolfgang Schnick)
• Determination of single-crystal elastic properties of olivine and serpentine as a function of chemical composition at conditions of subduction zones up to 25 Gpa, 1000^oC
  (main proposers: Dr. Sergio Speziale, Dr. Sandro Jahn, PD Dr. Max Wilke)
• Central laser heating facility for the SPP 1236  (main proposer: Prof. Bjoern Winkler)
• Coordination of the SPP 1236  (main proposer: Prof. Bjoern Winkler)