Chemistry under high pressure

M Miao, Y Sun, E Zurek, H Lin - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Thanks to the development of experimental high-pressure techniques and methods for
crystal-structure prediction based on quantum mechanics, in the past decade, numerous …

Potential high-Tc superconducting lanthanum and yttrium hydrides at high pressure

H Liu, II Naumov, R Hoffmann… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
A systematic structure search in the La–H and Y–H systems under pressure reveals some
hydrogen-rich structures with intriguing electronic properties. For example, LaH10 is found …

[HTML][HTML] Chemistry under extreme conditions: Pressure evolution of chemical bonding and structure in dense solids

CS Yoo - Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Recent advances in high-pressure technologies and large-scale experimental and
computational facilities have enabled scientists, at an unprecedented rate, to discover and …

Crystalline polymeric carbon dioxide stable at megabar pressures

KF Dziubek, M Ende, D Scelta, R Bini… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Carbon dioxide is a widespread simple molecule in the Universe. In spite of its simplicity it
has a very complex phase diagram, forming both amorphous and crystalline extended …

Structural and electron spin state changes in an x-ray heated iron carbonate system at the Earth's lower mantle pressures

JM Kaa, C Sternemann, K Appel, V Cerantola… - Physical review …, 2022 - APS
The determination of the spin state of iron-bearing compounds at high pressure and
temperature is crucial for our understanding of chemical and physical properties of the deep …

New multifunctional tungsten nitride with energetic N6 and extreme hardness predicted from first principles

Q Li, L Sha, C Zhu, Y Yao - Europhysics Letters, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We report a new member to the family of tungsten nitrides, WN 6, predicted from the
structure search. Ground-state convex hull calculation reveals that crystalline WN 6 is …

Applications of solid carbon dioxide (dry ice) pellet blasting for removal of surface contaminants

R Kohli - Developments in surface contamination and cleaning …, 2019 - Elsevier
The use of solid carbon dioxide (or dry ice) blasting has been developed as an established
non-solvent, dry method for removing surface contaminants in a variety of cleaning …

Ab initio Determination of the Phase Diagram of at High Pressures and Temperatures

BH Cogollo-Olivo, S Biswas, S Scandolo… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
The experimental study of the CO 2 phase diagram is hampered by strong kinetic effects
leading to wide regions of metastability and to large uncertainties in the location of some …

Prediction of novel high-pressure structures of magnesium niobium dihydride

C Zhang, G Sun, J Wang, C Lu, Y Jin… - … Applied Materials & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
On the basis of a combination of the particle-swarm optimization technique and density
functional theory (DFT), we explore the crystal structures of MgH2, NbH2, and MgNbH2 …

New states of matter and chemistry at extreme pressures: Low-Z extended solid

CS Yoo - MRS bulletin, 2017 - cambridge.org
High-pressure research, whether static or dynamic, provides “windows” to novel states,
transformations, and properties of highly compressed extended states of light elemental …