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High-pressure chemistry of hydrocarbons relevant to planetary interiors and inertial confinement fusion
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article
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Kraus, D; Hartley, NJ; Frydrych, S; Schuster, AK; Rohatsch, K; Rödel, M; Cowan, TE; Brown, S; Cunningham, E; Van Driel, T; Fletcher, LB; Galtier, E; Gamboa, EJ; Laso Garcia, A; Gericke, DO; Granados, E; Heimann, PA; Lee, HJ; Macdonald, MJ; Mackinnon, AJ; McBride, EE; Nam, I; Neumayer, P; Pak, A; Pelka, A; Prencipe, I; Ravasio, A; Redmer, R; Saunders, AM; Schölmerich, M; Schörner, M; Sun, P; Turner, SJ; Zettl, A; Falcone, RW; Glenzer, SH; Döppner, T; Vorberger, J
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Physics of Plasmas. 25(5)
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Abstract
© 2018 Author(s). Diamond formation in polystyrene (C8H8)n, which is laser-compressed and heated to conditions around 150 GPa and 5000 K, has recently been demonstrated in the laboratory [Kraus et al., Nat. Astron. 1, 606-611 (2017)]. Here, we show an extended analysis and comparison to first-principles simulations of the acquired data and their implications for planetary physics and inertial confinement fusion. Moreover, we discuss the advanced diagnostic capabilities of adding high-quality small angle X-ray scattering and spectrally resolved X-ray scattering to the platform, which shows great prospects of precisely studying the kinetics of chemical reactions in dense plasma environments at pressures exceeding 100 GPa.