Compression of Condensed Matter

Presentations

• Tabletop superposed laser shocks: 10 GPa nondestructively and >100 GPa with  < 100 mJ laser pulse energy

  ORAL · Invited

  March 17, 2026, 12:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 12:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Keith Adam Nelson

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Keith Adam Nelson

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Adiabatic Plasticity of Nanostructured Ductile Materials under Micro-Ballistic Loading

  ORAL · Invited

  March 17, 2026, 12:36 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Jae-Hwang Lee

    • Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, US

  Authors

  • Jae-Hwang Lee

    • Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, US

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• Extreme Compression of Calcium Silicate Perovskite: Clues to Earth's Deepest Mantle

  ORAL · Invited

  March 17, 2026, 1:12 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:48 PM

  Publication: Zhou, W.Y., Hao, M., Su, W.H., Kim, T., Chen, S.B., Shim, S.H., Zhang, D.Z., Nguyen, P.Q.H., Armstrong, K., Zhang, J.S., 2025. Elasticity of Davmaoite as primary contributor to lower mantle heterogeneities. Science, Accepted.

  Presenters

  • Jin Zhang

    • Texas A&M University

  Authors

  • Jin Zhang

    • Texas A&M University

  • Wen-Yi Zhou

    • Texas A&M University

  • Ming Hao

    • ETH

  • Wen-Hao Su

    • Texas A&M University

  • Taehyun Kim

    • Arizona State University

  • Sibo Chen

    • Arizona State University

  • Dan Shim

    • Arizona State University

  • Dongzhou Zhang

    • The University of Chicago (GSECARS)

  • Phuong Nguyen

    • Rigaku

  • Kathering Armstrong

    • Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Advanced Light Source
    • ALS, LBL

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• Improving the compression environment in the toroidal DAC for equations of state studies above 4 Mbar

  ORAL · Invited

  March 17, 2026, 1:48 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Claire Christine Zurkowski

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Claire Christine Zurkowski

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Rachel E Lim

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Olivia S Pardo

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Earl F O'Bannon

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Konstantin Glazyrin

    • Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY

  • Jesse S Smith

    • HPCAT, X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
    • Argonne National Laboratory

  • Per A Söderlind

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Zsolt Jenei

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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• Experimental and Computational Methods for the Discovery of Novel Transition Metal Carbides Under High Pressure

  ORAL · Invited

  March 17, 2026, 2:24 PM – March 17, 2026, 3:00 PM

  Publication: Cote, E. E.; Nelson, T. L.; Ambos, S. D.; Arigbede, J.; Walsh, C.; Brooks H. L.; Whitaker, M. L.; Walsh, J. P. S. "High-pressure synthesis of martensite-type ε-VCy″." Submitted.
  
  Marshall, P. V.; Thiel, S. D.; Cote, E. E.; Arigbede, J.; Whitaker, M. L.; Walsh, J. P. S. "High-pressure synthesis and recovery of single crystals of the metastable manganese carbide, MnCx." Chem. - Eur. J. 2024, 30, e202401581.
  
  Marshall, P. V.; Thiel, S. D.; Cote, E. E.; Hrubiak, R.; Whitaker, M. L.; Meng, Y.; Walsh, J. P. S. "Combined first-principles and experimental investigation into the reactivity of co-deposited chromium–carbon samples under pressure" ACS Mater. Au 2024, 63, 9763–9770.
  
  Thiel, S. D.; Walsh, J. P. S. "First-principles investigation of phase stability in substoichiometric zirconium carbide under high pressure." Adv. Theory Simul. 2022, 5, 2200439.
  
  Marshall, P. V.; Alptekin, Z.; Thiel, S. D.; Smith, D.; Meng, Y.; Walsh, J. P. S. "High-pressure synthesis of bulk cobalt cementite, Co3C." Chem. Mater. 2021, 33, 9601–9607.

  Presenters

  • James PS Walsh

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  Authors

  • James PS Walsh

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

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