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Sylvie Demouchy is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France and has a research focus primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with substantial contributions to the subfields of Geophysics, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

Their scholarly output encompasses a wide range of topics including:

  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Mineral Processing and Grinding
  • Metallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sylvie Demouchy include Patrick Cordier, Alexandre Mussi, Andréa Tommasi, Fabrice Barou, and Manuel Thieme.

Their work has been published repeatedly in several venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Elements
  • Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
  • European Journal of Mineralogy
  • Tectonophysics

Notable recent papers include:

  • Stress-induced amorphization triggers deformation in the lithospheric mantle, 2021, Nature
  • The intrinsic nature of antigorite breakdown at 3 GPa: Experimental constraints on redox conditions of serpentinite dehydration in subduction zones, 2020, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
  • Coseismic fault lubrication by viscous deformation, 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • Hydrogen, trace, and ultra-trace element distribution in natural olivines, 2021, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology
  • Defects in olivine, 2021, European Journal of Mineralogy

Best Publications

  • Rapid magma ascent recorded by water diffusion profiles in mantle olivine

    Sylvie Demouchy;Steven D. Jacobsen;Fabrice Gaillard;Charles R. Stern

  • Mechanisms of hydrogen incorporation and diffusion in iron-bearing olivine

    Sylvie Demouchy;Sylvie Demouchy;Stephen Mackwell;Stephen Mackwell

  • Olivine in the Udachnaya-East Kimberlite (Yakutia, Russia): Types, Compositions and Origins

    Vadim S. Kamenetsky;Maya B. Kamenetsky;Alexander V. Sobolev;Alexander V. Golovin

  • Distribution and transport of hydrogen in the lithospheric mantle: A review

    Sylvie Demouchy;Nathalie Bolfan-Casanova

  • Deformation and Fluid–Rock Interaction in the Supra-subduction Mantle: Microstructures and Water Contents in Peridotite Xenoliths from the Avacha Volcano, Kamchatka

    Vincent Soustelle;Andrea Tommasi;Sylvie Demouchy;D. A. Ionov

  • Water diffusion in synthetic iron-free forsterite

    S. Demouchy;S. Mackwell

  • Pressure and temperature-dependence of water solubility in Fe-free wadsleyite

    Sylvie Demouchy;Etienne Deloule;Daniel James Frost;Hans Keppler

  • A systematic study of OH in hydrous wadsleyite from polarized FTIR spectroscopy and single-crystal X-ray diffraction: Oxygen sites for hydrogen storage in Earth∑ s interior

    Steven D. Jacobsen;Steven D. Jacobsen;Sylvie Demouchy;Daniel J. Frost;Tiziana Boffa Ballaran

  • Diffusion of hydrogen in olivine grain boundaries and implications for the survival of water-rich zones in the Earth's mantle

    Sylvie Demouchy

  • Disclinations provide the missing mechanism for deforming olivine-rich rocks in the mantle

    Patrick Cordier;Sylvie Demouchy;Benoît Beausir;Vincent Taupin

  • Low strength of Earth’s uppermost mantle inferred from tri-axial deformation experiments on dry olivine crystals

    Sylvie Demouchy;Andréa Tommasi;Tiziana Boffa Ballaran;Patrick Cordier

  • Deformation and hydration of the lithospheric mantle beneath the Kaapvaal craton, South Africa

    Virginie Baptiste;Andréa Tommasi;Sylvie Demouchy

  • Deformation of olivine in torsion under hydrous conditions

    Sylvie Demouchy;Andréa Tommasi;Fabrice Barou;David Mainprice

  • Evidence of dehydration in peridotites from Eifel Volcanic Field and estimates of the rate of magma ascent

    Carole M.M. Denis;Sylvie Demouchy;Cliff S.J. Shaw

  • Water content and hydrogen behaviour during metasomatism in the uppermost mantle beneath Ray Pic volcano (Massif Central, France)

    Carole M.M. Denis;Olivier Alard;Sylvie Demouchy

  • Characterization of hydration in the mantle lithosphere: Peridotite xenoliths from the Ontong Java Plateau as an example

    Sylvie Demouchy;Akira Ishikawa;Andréa Tommasi;Olivier Alard

  • Experimental deformation of olivine single crystals at lithospheric temperatures

    Sylvie Demouchy;Sylvie Demouchy;Sylvie Demouchy;Stephen E. Schneider;Stephen J. Mackwell;Mark E. Zimmerman

  • Viscoplasticity of polycrystalline olivine experimentally deformed at high pressure and 900 °C

    Sylvie Demouchy;Alexandre Mussi;Fabrice Barou;Andrea Tommasi

  • Influence of hydrogen on Fe–Mg interdiffusion in (Mg,Fe)O and implications for Earth’s lower mantle

    Sylvie Demouchy;Stephen J. Mackwell;David L. Kohlstedt

  • Deformation, hydration, and anisotropy of the lithospheric mantle in an active rift: Constraints from mantle xenoliths from the North Tanzanian Divergence of the East African Rift

    Virginie Baptiste;Andréa Tommasi;Alain Vauchez;Sylvie Demouchy

  • Stress-induced amorphization triggers deformation in the lithospheric mantle

    Vahid Samae;Patrick Cordier;Patrick Cordier;Sylvie Demouchy;Caroline Bollinger;Caroline Bollinger

  • Viscoplasticity of polycrystalline olivineexperimentallydeformedathigh pressure and 900 °C

    Sylvie Demouchy;Alexandre Mussi;Fabrice Barou;Patrick Cordier

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Cordier
Patrick Cordier Institut Universitaire de France
Andréa Tommasi
Andréa Tommasi University of Montpellier
Olivier Alard
Olivier Alard Macquarie University
Nathalie Bolfan-Casanova
Nathalie Bolfan-Casanova University of Clermont Auvergne
David Mainprice
David Mainprice University of Montpellier
Stephen J. Mackwell
Stephen J. Mackwell Lunar and Planetary Institute
Yves Marrocchi
Yves Marrocchi University of Lorraine
Pete Burnard
Pete Burnard University of Lorraine
Daniel J. Frost
Daniel J. Frost University of Bayreuth
Denis Andrault
Denis Andrault University of Clermont Auvergne

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