Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Ultrafast olivine-ringwoodite transformation during shock compression

  • Takuo Okuchi,
  • Yusuke Seto,
  • Naotaka Tomioka,
  • Takeshi Matsuoka,
  • Bruno Albertazzi,
  • Nicholas J. Hartley,
  • Yuichi Inubushi,
  • Kento Katagiri,
  • Ryosuke Kodama,
  • Tatiana A. Pikuz,
  • Narangoo Purevjav,
  • Kohei Miyanishi,
  • Tomoko Sato,
  • Toshimori Sekine,
  • Keiichi Sueda,
  • Kazuo A. Tanaka,
  • Yoshinori Tange,
  • Tadashi Togashi,
  • Yuhei Umeda,
  • Toshinori Yabuuchi,
  • Makina Yabashi,
  • Norimasa Ozaki

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24633-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Meteorites from space often include denser polymorphs of their minerals, providing records of past hypervelocity collisions. An olivine mineral crystal was shock-compressed by a high-power laser, and its transformation into denser ringwoodite was time-resolved using an X-ray free electron laser.