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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 ...

Some solid materials can cool down or heat up when pressure is applied or released. This behavior enables cooling and heating ...

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Chris J. Pickard is in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0FS, UK, and at the Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, ...

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 ...

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 ...