2024 Medal (ceremony on May 2024)
Physical and Natural Sciences
A paper with the Nobel prize in Physics 2021: Giorgio Parisi
"Quasicrystals: fragments of history and future outlooks"
PUBLISHED on Rendiconti dei Lincei (link) on May 2023!
(introduction to the Special Issue on Quasicrystals )
New materials from fulgurites!
Description of the first calcium phosphite!
PUBLISHED on Communications Earth & Environment (link) on April 2023!
(This article was ranked 1st in terms of online attention of the tracked articles of a similar age in Communications Earth & Environment )
Extreme redox variations in a superdeep diamond from a subducted slab
Study of the redox conditions of the deep mantle recorded in inclusions in a diamond from Kankan, Guinea
PUBLISHED on Nature (link) on January 2023!
The (divulgative) book recounting the extraordinary adventure of the discovery of the first natural quasicrystal has been published!
Media coverage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba-7E8uO81A
MERELANIITE STRUCTURE SOLVED!
(a complex case of composite modulated structure)
PUBLISHED on PRM Physical Review Materials (link) on November, 2022!
New extraterrestrial Mg-Fe-silicate found!
PUBLISHED on ACS Earth and Space Chemistry (link) on August, 2021!
Quasicrystals formed in the first atomic blast (Trinity Test, 1945)
PUBLISHED on PNAS (link) on May 17, 2021!
Can quasicrystal survive in planetary collisions?
PUBLISHED on Progress in Earth and Planetary Science (link) on April 20, 2021!
New Mg-Si-O phase found in shocked veins!
POIRIERITE, Mg2SiO4
PUBLISHED on Communications Earth & Environment (link) on January 22, 2021!
Determination of the crystal structure of the NATURAL QUASICRYSTALS released!!! (January 2021)
Insight into the structure of decagonite - the extraterrestrial decagonal quasicrystal
PUBLISHED ON IUCrJ (link)
Short monograph on NATURAL QUASICRYSTALS released!!! (July 2020)
Natural Quasicrystals: The Solar System's Hidden Secrets
It is the first SpringerBrief in Crystallography published under the auspices of the International Union of Crystallography
July 2020 - Topical Invited Review
Producing highly complicated materials. Nature does it better
May 2020
Shock synthesis of the third natural quasicrystal found in the Khatryrka meteorite
March 2020
and we got the COVER!!
December 28th, 2019
Such a crystallographic monster has been published on IUCrJ and got the cover!
Incorporation of Mg in phase Egg leads to a new polymorph of phase H, MgSiH2O4, a carrier of water in the deep mantle!
Just published on the American Mineralogist (Vol. 105, 2020)
Cover article on DRM!
September 2019:
Elected Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America!
Carmeltazite, chosen as Mineral of the Year 2018 by the International Mineralogical Association!
