Magnesium oxide-water compounds at megabar pressure and implications on planetary interiors

Shuning Pan; Tianheng Huang; Allona Vazan; Zhixin Liang; Cong Liu; Junjie Wang; Chris J. Pickard; Hui-Tian Wang; Dingyu Xing; Jian Sun

doi:10.1038/s41467-023-36802-8

Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Magnesium oxide-water compounds at megabar pressure and implications on planetary interiors

Shuning Pan,
Tianheng Huang,
Allona Vazan,
Zhixin Liang,
Cong Liu,
Junjie Wang,
Chris J. Pickard,
Hui-Tian Wang,
Dingyu Xing,
Jian Sun

Affiliations

Shuning Pan: National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University
Tianheng Huang: National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University
Allona Vazan: Astrophysics Research Center of the Open University (ARCO), The Open University of Israel
Zhixin Liang: National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University
Cong Liu: National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University
Junjie Wang: National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University
Chris J. Pickard: Theory of Condensed Matter Group, Cavendish Laboratory, J. J. Thomson Avenue
Hui-Tian Wang: National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University
Dingyu Xing: National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University
Jian Sun: National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, School of Physics and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36802-8
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

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Magnesium Oxide and water are abundant in the interior of planets. Here, the authors predict three new MgO-H2O compounds: Mg2O3H2, MgO3H4 and MgO4H6, and they exhibit superionic behavior in planetary interior conditions.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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