'Beautiful Accident' Leads to Advances in High Pressure Materials Synthesis (IMAGE)

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

'Beautiful Accident' Leads to Advances in High Pressure Materials Synthesis

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Ilia Ivanov (left) from Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Center for Nanophase Materials Science, Chris Tulk (right) from ORNL's Spallation Neutron Source and their collaborators received unexpected results from a neutron scattering experiment at SNS that could open a new pathway for the synthesis of novel materials and also help explain the formation of complex organic structures observed in interstellar space.

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Genevieve Martin/ORNL

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