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[News] Carbon and oxygen at extremes

9 February 2012

Miguel Martinez-Canales, Chris J.

Pickard, Richard J. Needs, Thermodynamically Stable Phases of Carbon at Multiterapascal Pressures Physical Review Letters, 108, 045704 (2012)

Jian Sun, Miguel Martinez-Canales, Dennis D. Klug, Chris J. Pickard, Richard J. Needs Persistence and Eventual Demise of Oxygen Molecules at Terapascal Pressures Physical Review Letters, 108, 045503 (2012)

Dr Miguel Martinez-Canales and Prof. Chris Pickard (CMMP), with co-workers, have revealed the fate of the vital elements carbon and oxygen when subjected to the extremes of pressure encountered in giant planets and stars. [Read more]