Title: Using in situ X-ray Diffraction and Imaging to Study Materials Under Pressure
Abstract: The physical properties and crystal structures of materials under non-ambient conditions can be drastically different than those exhibited at room pressure and temperature. Over the last few decades, the Mineral Physics community has been at the forefront of the development of new experimental techniques that take advantage of synchrotron X-radiation to study materials under extreme conditions of pressure and temperature, and these new tools and techniques have been used across the scientific spectrum from Earth and Planetary Sciences to Engineering, Materials Science, Solid State Chemistry and more. I will discuss a few developments that I have been involved with, in particular the measurement of acoustic velocities and elastic properties of materials, dynamic compression and heating experiments relevant to impact events, and controlled-strain deformation experiments. I will introduce some of the multi-disciplinary science that has been made possible by those developments and offer some insight into some exciting new developments and collaborations on the horizon.
