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Awards\/Honors<\/h3>\n
1998 Mineralogical Society of Japan Award<\/span><\/p>\n2004 Ishikawa Carbon Prize<\/span><\/p>\n2007 Research Award of Japan Society of Powder and Powder Metallurgy<\/span><\/p>\n2007 Alexander von Humboldt Research Award<\/span><\/p>\n2008 Fellow of American Geophysical Uion<\/span><\/p>\n2010 The Japan Society of High Pressure Science and Technology Award<\/span><\/p>\n2014 Geological Society of Australia (GSA), A. E. Ringwood Medal<\/span><\/p>\n2015 Medal with Purple Ribbon, Government of Japan<\/span><\/p>\n2016 European Geoscience Union (EGU), R. W. Bunsen Medal<\/span><\/p>\n2018 Ehime Newspaper Award
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Research Interests<\/h3>\n
T. Irifune has been studiying the mineralogy, density, and elastic wave velocities of subducting slabs and surrounding mantle using multianvil high-pressure technology. He has been extensively working on the behaviors of pyrolite, oceanic basalt, harzburgite, marine sediments, and relevant minerals with simpler compositions based on both quench and in situ X-ray observations, to understand the composition and dynamics of the slab and the mantle. He has also been working on the application of multianvil technology to the synthesis of novel ultarhard materials, such as nano-polycrystalline diamond (or HIME-diamond), which is known to be the world hardest bulk material.<\/span><\/p>\nAs the leader of Ehime Satellite (ELSI-ES), he particularly focuses on the chemical composition of lower mantle, behaviors of water in the deep mantle, and thermal evolution of the Earth interior etc. to provide some important constraints on the chemical composition of bulk Earth and hence differentiation and evolution processes of the solid Earth, which are vital to understand the o<\/span> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Name Irifune, Tetsuo Position Principal Investigator (Professor, Ehime University) Research Field Solid earth material science E-mail irifune_at_elsi.jp irifune_at_dpc.ehime-u.ac.jp Web Page http:\/\/www.grc.ehime-u.ac.jp\/en\/ Google Scholar Profile https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=1mKpbDoAAAAJ&hl=en Awards\/Honors 1998 Mineralogical Society of Japan Award 2004 Ishikawa Carbon Prize 2007 Research Award of Japan Society of Powder and Powder Metallurgy 2007 Alexander von Humboldt Research Award […]","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":885,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"http:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/?page_id=983"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":985,"href":"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/984\/revisions\/985"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elsi.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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