An international team of researchers has developed a technique that allows higher-than-ever-before static pressures to be generated in the laboratory, using a newly designed diamond-anvil cell. The ...

Since invention of the diamond anvil cell technique in the late 1950s for studying materials at extreme conditions, the maximum static pressure generated so far at room temperature was reported to ...

In particular they have used the technique to shock materials under high static pressure in a diamond anvil cell. At first, nanoshocks may seem like something to describe the millions of ...

At Calipso, the California High-Pressure Science Observatory at beamline 12.2.2 of the Advanced Light Source, materials can be squeezed to tremendous pressures in diamond anvil cells, where they ...

The diamond anvil cell used in this experiment. (A) Symmetric Diamond Anvil Cell, (B) Schematic diagram of a diamond anvil. The orange circle is the area corresponding to (C, D) (C) Image of the ...

Above: an image of a diamond anvil cell inside the pressure chamber. Traditionally, a diamond anvil cell works like a vice that squeezes the sample between two single-crystal diamonds to produce ...