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Overview

John P. Brodholt is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a specialization in Geophysics.

Their work encompasses various subfields including Geophysics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, and Ecology.

Key research topics covered by Brodholt include:

  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geological and geochemical analysis
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Astro and planetary science
  • Planetary science and exploration
  • Isotope analysis in ecology
  • Geomagnetism and paleomagnetism studies

Brodholt has contributed extensively to publications in the following venues:

  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • American Mineralogist
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Brodholt include:

  • Lidunka Vočadlo
  • Yunguo Li
  • Wenzhong Wang
  • Michael J. Walter
  • D. P. Dobson

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Brodholt are:

  • The Earth's core as a reservoir of water (2020, Nature Geoscience)
  • Strong shear softening induced by superionic hydrogen in Earth's inner core (2021, Earth and Planetary Science Letters)
  • Sulfur isotopic signature of Earth established by planetesimal volatile evaporation (2021, Nature Geoscience)
  • Elasticity of hydrous ringwoodite at mantle conditions: Implication for water distribution in the lowermost mantle transition zone (2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters)
  • Hydrous silicate melts and the deep mantle H2O cycle (2022, Earth and Planetary Science Letters)

Best Publications

  • Possible thermal and chemical stabilization of body-centred-cubic iron in the Earth's core.

    Lidunka Vočadlo;Dario Alfè;M. J. Gillan;I. G. Wood

  • A seismologically consistent compositional model of Earth’s core

    James Badro;James Badro;Alexander S. Côté;Alexander S. Côté;John P. Brodholt

  • First-principles constraints on diffusion in lower-mantle minerals and a weak D'' layer

    M. W. Ammann;J. P. Brodholt;James M Wookey;D. P Dobson

  • The elastic constants of MgSiO3 perovskite at pressures and temperatures of the Earth's mantle.

    Artem R. Oganov;John P. Brodholt;G. David Price

  • Thermal expansion and crystal structure of cementite, Fe3C, between 4 and 600 K determined by time-of-flight neutron powder diffraction

    I. G. Wood;Lidunka Vočadlo;K. S. Knight;K. S. Knight;David P. Dobson

  • Arsenic incorporation into FeS2 pyrite and its influence on dissolution: A DFT study

    Marc Blanchard;Maria Alfredsson;John P. Brodholt;Kate Wright

  • The influence of potassium on core and geodynamo evolution

    F. Nimmo;G. D. Price;J. Brodholt;D. Gubbins

  • Efficacy of the post-perovskite phase as an explanation for lowermost-mantle seismic properties

    James Wookey;James Wookey;Stephen Stackhouse;J-Michael Kendall;John Brodholt

  • Analysis of the hydrogen-bonded structure of water from ambient to supercritical conditions

    P. Jedlovszky;J. P. Brodholt;Fabio Bruni;Maria Antonietta Ricci

  • Core formation and core composition from coupled geochemical and geophysical constraints.

    James Badro;James Badro;John P. Brodholt;Hélène Piet;Hélène Piet;Julien Siebert

  • Subducted banded iron formations as a source of ultralow-velocity zones at the core-mantle boundary.

    David P. Dobson;John P. Brodholt

  • Ab initio elasticity and thermal equation of state of MgSiO3 perovskite

    Artem R Oganov;John P Brodholt;G.David Price

  • Pressure-induced changes in the compression mechanism of aluminous perovskite in the Earth's mantle

    John P. Brodholt

  • Mantle dynamics in super-Earths: Post-perovskite rheology and self-regulation of viscosity

    P.J. Tackley;M. Ammann;J.P. Brodholt;D.P. Dobson

  • The effect of temperature on the seismic anisotropy of the perovskite and post-perovskite polymorphs of MgSiO3

    S. Stackhouse;J.P. Brodholt;J. Wookey;J.-M. Kendall

  • First-principles modelling of Earth and planetary materials at high pressures and temperatures

    M J Gillan;D Alfè;J Brodholt;L Vočadlo

  • Comparative study of quasiharmonic lattice dynamics, molecular dynamics and Debye model applied to MgSiO3 perovskite.

    Artem R. Oganov;John P. Brodholt;G. David Price

  • Simulations of the structure and thermodynamic properties of water at high pressures and temperatures

    John Brodholt;Bernard Wood

  • Parameterizing a polarizable intermolecular potential for water

    John Brodholt;Marco Sampoli;Renzo Vallauri

  • Molecular dynamics simulations of aqueous NaCl solutions at high pressures and temperatures

    John P. Brodholt

  • Electronic spin transitions in iron-bearing MgSiO3 perovskite

    Stephen Stackhouse;John P. Brodholt;G. David Price

Frequent Co-Authors

Lidunka Vočadlo
Lidunka Vočadlo University College London
Geoffrey D. Price
Geoffrey D. Price University College London
Donald J. Weidner
Donald J. Weidner Stony Brook University
Martin T. Dove
Martin T. Dove Sichuan University
Artem R. Oganov
Artem R. Oganov Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
Stephen C. Parker
Stephen C. Parker University of Bath
Shigeaki Ono
Shigeaki Ono Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Wolfgang Emmerich
Wolfgang Emmerich University College London
Kevin S. Knight
Kevin S. Knight University College London
James Wookey
James Wookey University of Bristol

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