
Lead author of the study, Wenge Yang of the Carnegie Foundation's high-pressure synergistic Consortium explained: "the only way to see what will happen in such a sample when under pressure is to use high-energy x-rays produced from Sygchrotro sources. Synchrotrons can provide very coherent x-rays for advanced 3-D imaging with dozens of nanometers of resolution. This is different from the incoherent imaging test that is used for medical examination that has the spatial distribution of micron. The...