Crystallography, high-pressure

Pressure is an important thermodynamic variable, yet compared to temperamre its effects have been little explored in chemical applications. For molecular materials, we can usually vary temperature over a few hundred degrees, whereas pressure can be increased quite routinely in excess of 1 GPa, which is 10 times 

With such an arrangement many investigations arc possible. Interesting studies on high-eneigy-density materials (explosives) under high pressure have recendy attracted interest RDX (1,3,5-trinitrohexahydrotriazine, 

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High-pressure crystallography generally, and diffraction studies (with both Xrays and neutrons) particularly, is a nonroutine and traditionally highly specialized area of research, developed by several research groups aroimd the world and (in part) closely associated with industrial. 

High-pressure Crystallography, ed. A. Katrusiak and P. McMillan, NATO Science Series 2, 2003, vol. 140. 

Gruner, S. M. (2004) Soft materials and biomaterials under pressure. Putting the squeeze on Biology, in A. Katrusiak and P. MeMillan (eds.), High-Pressure Crystallography, p. 543 (Kluwer, Dordreeht)... 

Katrusiak, A, McMillan, P. High-Pressure Crystallography, NATO Science Series. 11. Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, Vol. 140 (2004) Kluwer, Dordrecht. 

Boldyreva, E.V. Molecules in strained environment, in High-Pressure Crystallography, Ed. A. Katrusiak P.F. McMillan, Kluwer, Dordrecht (2004) 495-512. 

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