X-ray free electron laser heating of water and gold at high static pressure

Rachel J. Husband; R. Stewart McWilliams; Edward J. Pace; Amy L. Coleman; Huijeong Hwang; Jinhyuk Choi; Taehyun Kim; Gil Chan Hwang; Orianna B. Ball; Sae Hwan Chun; Daewoong Nam; Sangsoo Kim; Hyunchae Cynn; Vitali B. Prakapenka; Sang Heon Shim; Sven Toleikis; Malcolm I. McMahon; Yongjae Lee; Hanns Peter Liermann

doi:10.1038/s43246-021-00158-7

X-ray free electron laser heating of water and gold at high static pressure

Rachel J. Husband, R. Stewart McWilliams, Edward J. Pace, Amy L. Coleman, Huijeong Hwang, Jinhyuk Choi, Taehyun Kim, Gil Chan Hwang, Orianna B. Ball, Sae Hwan Chun, Daewoong Nam, Sangsoo Kim, Hyunchae Cynn, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Sang Heon Shim, Sven Toleikis, Malcolm I. McMahon, Yongjae Lee, Hanns Peter Liermann

Earth and Space Exploration, School of (SESE)

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Probing of reactive materials such as H₂O ices and fluids at the high pressures and temperatures of planetary interiors is limited by unwanted chemical reactions and confinement failure. Faster experiments can mitigate such issues, but the common approach of adiabatic compression limits the conditions achieved. This study demonstrates a fast experimental strategy for the creation and probing of selected extreme states using static compression coupled with ultrafast X-ray laser heating. Indirect X-ray heating of H₂O through the use of a gold absorber is evidenced by sample melting inferred from textural changes in the H₂O diffraction lines and inter-dispersion of gold and H₂O melts. Coupled with numerical analysis of femtosecond energy absorption, thermal equilibration, and heat transfer, all evidence indicates that temperatures in excess of an electron volt have been reached in the H₂O at high pressure. Even after repeated heating, samples stayed chemically unchanged from the starting material.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	61
Journal	Communications Materials
Volume	2
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-021-00158-7
State	Published - Dec 2021

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Husband, R. J., McWilliams, R. S., Pace, E. J., Coleman, A. L., Hwang, H., Choi, J., Kim, T., Hwang, G. C., Ball, O. B., Chun, S. H., Nam, D., Kim, S., Cynn, H., Prakapenka, V. B., Shim, S. H., Toleikis, S., McMahon, M. I., Lee, Y., & Liermann, H. P. (2021). X-ray free electron laser heating of water and gold at high static pressure. Communications Materials, 2(1), Article 61. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-021-00158-7

Husband, RJ, McWilliams, RS, Pace, EJ, Coleman, AL, Hwang, H, Choi, J, Kim, T, Hwang, GC, Ball, OB, Chun, SH, Nam, D, Kim, S, Cynn, H, Prakapenka, VB, Shim, SH, Toleikis, S, McMahon, MI, Lee, Y & Liermann, HP 2021, 'X-ray free electron laser heating of water and gold at high static pressure', Communications Materials, vol. 2, no. 1, 61. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-021-00158-7

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