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Tetsuo Irifune

Tetsuo Irifune

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Earth Science

D-Index
61
Citations
14486
World Ranking
1778
National Ranking
39

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Tetsuo Irifune is affiliated with Ehime University in Japan, conducting extensive research primarily in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Materials Science. Their work spans numerous subfields including Geophysics, Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Condensed Matter Physics, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The research topics covered by Irifune predominantly focus on high-pressure geophysics and materials. Additional topics include geological and geochemical analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, diamond and carbon-based materials research, metal and thin film mechanics, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, and magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials.

Irifune has contributed to various scientific journals and publication venues, with frequent appearances in Physical Review B, arXiv (Cornell University), The Cambridge Structural Database, Geophysical Research Letters, and Nature Communications.

Some of Irifune's recent scientific papers are:

  • Local electronic structure rearrangements and strong anharmonicity in YH3 under pressures up to 180 GPa, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Hadean mantle oxidation inferred from melting of peridotite under lower-mantle conditions, 2023, Nature Geoscience
  • Melting Curve and Phase Relations of Fe-Ni Alloys: Implications for the Earth's Core Composition, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Revealing the Complex Nature of Bonding in the Binary High-Pressure Compound FeO2, 2021, Physical Review Letters
  • Melting properties by X-ray absorption spectroscopy: common signatures in binary Fe-C, Fe-O, Fe-S and Fe-Si systems, 2020, Scientific Reports

Collaborations are a significant aspect of Irifune's work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Angelika D. Rosa
  • Toru Shinmei
  • R. Torchio
  • Olivier Mathon
  • Emin Mijit

Among honors, Irifune was recognized as a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Materials: Ultrahard polycrystalline diamond from graphite.

    Tetsuo Irifune;Ayako Kurio;Shizue Sakamoto;Toru Inoue

  • Phase transformations in subducted oceanic crust and buoyancy relationships at depths of 600–800 km in the mantle

    T. Irifune;A.E. Ringwood

  • Stagnant slab : A review

    Yoshio Fukao;Tomoeki Nakakuki;Hisashi Utada;Daisuke Suetsugu

  • Absence of an aluminous phase in the upper part of the Earth's lower mantle

    Tetsuo Irifune

  • Nature of the 650–km seismic discontinuity: implications for mantle dynamics and differentiation

    A. E. Ringwood;T. Irifune

  • An experimental investigation of the pyroxene-garnet transformation in a pyrolite composition and its bearing on the constitution of the mantle

    Tetsuo Irifune

  • Stability of magnesite and its high-pressure form in the lowermost mantle

    Maiko Isshiki;Tetsuo Irifune;Kei Hirose;Shigeaki Ono

  • Subduction of continental crust and terrigenous and pelagic sediments: an experimental study

    T. Irifune;A.E. Ringwood;W.O. Hibberson

  • The Postspinel Phase Boundary in Mg2SiO4 Determined by in Situ X-ray Diffraction

    Tetsuo Irifune;Norimasa Nishiyama;Koji Kuroda;Toru Inoue

  • Experimental determination of element partitioning between silicate perovskites, garnets and liquids: constraints on early differentiation of the mantle

    T. Kato;A.E. Ringwood;T. Irifune

  • Phase transformations in a harzburgite composition to 26 GPa: implications for dynamical behaviour of the subducting slab

    T. Irifune;A.E. Ringwood

  • Stability of hydrous silicate at high pressures and water transport to the deep lower mantle

    M. Nishi;M. Nishi;T. Irifune;T. Irifune;J. Tsuchiya;J. Tsuchiya;Y. Tange;Y. Tange

  • Iron Partitioning and Density Changes of Pyrolite in Earth’s Lower Mantle

    Tetsuo Irifune;Toru Shinmei;Catherine A. McCammon;Nobuyoshi Miyajima

  • The eclogite-garnetite transformation at high pressure and some geophysical implications

    T. Irifune;T. Sekine;A.E. Ringwood;W.O. Hibberson

  • Phase Relations and Volume Changes of Hafnia under High Pressure and High Temperature

    Osamu Ohtaka;Hiroshi Fukui;Taichi Kunisada;Tomoyuki Fujisawa

  • Phase transformations and mantle dynamics

    A.E. Ringwood

  • A new high-pressure form of MgAl2O4

    T. Irifune;K. Fujino;E. Ohtani

  • An experimental study of the garnet-perovskite transformation in the system MgSiO3Mg3Al2Si3O12

    Tetsuo Irifune;Tomomi Koizumi;Jun-ichi Ando

  • Hardness and deformation microstructures of nano-polycrystalline diamonds synthesized from various carbons under high pressure and high temperature

    H. Sumiya;T. Irifune

  • Phase relations and equations of state of ZrO 2 under high temperature and high pressure

    O. Ohtaka;H. Fukui;T. Kunisada;T. Fujisawa

  • Sound velocities of majorite garnet and the composition of the mantle transition region

    T. Irifune;Y. Higo;T. Inoue;Y. Kono

  • Iron partitioning in a pyrolite mantle and the nature of the 410-km seismic discontinuity

    Tetsuo Irifune;Maiko Isshiki

  • Formation of pure polycrystalline diamond by direct conversion of graphite at high pressure and high temperature

    Tetsuo Irifune;Ayako Kurio;Shizue Sakamoto;Toru Inoue

  • PVT relation of MgO derived by simultaneous elastic wave velocity and in situ X-ray measurements: A new pressure scale for the mantle transition region

    Yoshio Kono;Tetsuo Irifune;Yuji Higo;Toru Inoue

Frequent Co-Authors

Ken-ichi Funakoshi
Ken-ichi Funakoshi Comprehensive Research Organization for Science and Society
Toru Inoue
Toru Inoue Hiroshima University
Yoshihiko Takano
Yoshihiko Takano National Institute for Materials Science
Hitoshi Sumiya
Hitoshi Sumiya Sumitomo Electric Industries (United States)
Luca Bindi
Luca Bindi University of Florence
Takehiko Yagi
Takehiko Yagi University of Tokyo
Daisuke Yamazaki
Daisuke Yamazaki Okayama University
Takumi Kikegawa
Takumi Kikegawa High Energy Accelerator Research Organization
Ryoji Takahashi
Ryoji Takahashi Ehime University
Lin-gun Liu
Lin-gun Liu Academia Sinica

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