Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Chemistry

An Externally-Heated Diamond Anvil Cell for Synthesis and Single-Crystal Elasticity Determination of Ice-VII at High Pressure-Temperature Conditions

Xiaojing Lai^1,2, Feng Zhu², Jin S. Zhang³, Dongzhou Zhang^2,4, Sergey Tkachev⁴, Vitali B. Prakapenka⁴, Bin Chen²

¹Gemmological Institute, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), ²Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, ³Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, ⁴Center for Advanced Radiation Sources, University of Chicago

This work focuses on the standard protocol for preparing the externally-heated diamond anvil cell (EHDAC) for generating high-pressure and high-temperature (HPHT) conditions. The EHDAC is employed to investigate materials in Earth and planetary interiors under extreme conditions, which can be also used in solid state physics and chemistry studies.

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Determining the Mechanical Strength of Ultra-Fine-Grained Metals

Jianing Xu^*1,2, Yanju Wang^*2, Jinyuan Yan³, Bin Chen^1,2

¹School of Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, ²Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, ³Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

The protocol presented here describes the high-pressure radial diamond-anvil-cell experiments and analyzing the related data, which are essential for obtaining the mechanical strength of the nanomaterials with a significant breakthrough to the traditional approach.