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Chemistry Departmental Seminar

About the event

Departmental Seminar, Monday, 9/27/21 at 4:10 in Fulmer 201

Speaker:   Professor Choong-Shik Yoo

Department of Chemistry, Institute for Shock Physics, and
Materials Science and Engineering,

Washington State University

Title:   Chemistry under Extreme Conditions (XCHEM)

Abstract:  Many novel phenomena that emerge at extreme pressure-temperature (PT) conditions are fundamentally chemical processes; reflecting how chemical bonds break and form, how atoms and molecules organize over short- and long-range spatial extents, and how kinetics and thermodynamics govern materials stability. With recent advances in high PT and HED platforms, advanced light sources at large scientific user facilities, and supercomputers and computational methodologies, HP research today uncovers novel states, structures, transformations, and properties of highly compressed solids that may constitute the giant planets and stars, at an unprecedented rate. Riding on this emerging HP research, I will describe our efforts to investigate the pressure evolution of chemical bonding and crystal structure of low Z molecular solids in both static and dynamic-diamond anvil cells and to elucidate the fundamental principles governing the chemistry of dense solids and solid interfaces at extreme conditions.

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