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The study of materials at extreme conditions took a giant leap forward with the discovery of a way to generate super high pressures without using shock waves whose accompanying heat turns solids to ...

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With high-pressure experiments at DESY's X-ray light source PETRA III and other facilities, a research team has solved a long standing riddle in the analysis of meteorites from Moon and Mars. The ...

For more than a quarter century, scientists have been trying to determine the structure of a particular form of solid oxygen. X-ray analysis of the substance under high pressure now indicates that ...

Solid iodine forms an orthorhombic molecular crystal made up of four I 2 molecules in a unit cell with space group Cmca (phase I). Application of pressure forces the molecules to approach each other 8 ...

Using high-powered laser beams, researchers have simulated conditions inside a planet three times as large as Earth. Scientists have identified more than 2,000 of these “super-Earths,” exoplanets that ...

The Queen Mary research shows that graphene is 3D as well as 2D. CREDIT Yiwei Sun Contrary to what is believed, monolayer graphene (a sheet of carbon just one atomic layer thick) has 3D mechanical ...

Some solid materials can cool down or heat up when pressure is applied or released. This behavior enables cooling and heating technologies that do not rely on climate-damaging refrigerant gases. In ...