Static and Dynamic High Pressure Mineral Physics

Yingwei Fei is a leading high pressure experimentalist with broad interests in Earth and planetary science and high pressure physics and materials synthesis. He is a staff scientist in the Earth and Planets Laboratory at the Carnegie Institution for Science and is an elected Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America, the American Geophysical Union, and the Geochemical Society. Michael J. Walter is an experimental petrologist who investigates the chemistry, structure, and properties of melts and minerals under the extreme pressures and temperatures in deep planetary interiors. He is the Deputy Director of the Earth and Planets Laboratory at the Carnegie Institution for Science and is a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America and the American Geophysical Union.

'… an excellent review of the historical development of - and modern advances in - high-pressure and high-temperature research on mineral compounds. … Highly recommended.' M. E. McCallum, Choice

• 1. Introduction to Static and Dynamic High Pressure Mineral Physics Michael Walter, Yingwei Fei; 2. Developments of Static High-pressure Techniques and the Study of the Earth's Deep Interior in the Last 50 Years and its Future Takehiko Yagi; 3. Applications of Synchrotron and FEL X-rays in High-pressure Research Guoyin Shen Wendy Mao; 4. Development of Large-volume Diamond Anvil Cell for Neutron Diffraction – the Neutron Diamond Anvil Cell Project at ORNL Reinhard Boehler, Bianca Haberl, Jamie J. Molaison; Malcom Guthrie; 5. Light-Source Diffraction Studies of Planetary Materials Under Dynamic Loading Sally J. Tracy; 6. New Analysis of Shock-Compression Data for Selected Silicates Thomas Duffy; 7. Scaling Relations for Combined Static and Dynamic High-Pressure Experiments Raymond Jeanloz; 8. Equations of State of Selected Solids for High-Pressure Research and Planetary Interior Density Models Yingwei Fei; 9. Elasticity at High Pressure with Implication for the Earth's Inner Core Seiji Kamada, Tatsuya Sakamaki, Eiji Ohtani; 10. Multigrain Crystallography at Megabar Pressures Li Zhang, Junyue Wang, Ho-kwang Mao; 11. Deformation and Plasticity of Materials under Extreme Conditions Sebastian Merkel; 12. Synthesis of High-pressure Silicate Polymorphs using Multi-anvil Press Jie Li; 13. Investigation of Chemical Interaction and Melting using Laser-heated Diamond-anvil Cell Yingwei Fei, Michael Walter, James Badro, Kei Hirose, Oliver Lord, Andrew Campbell, Eiji Ohtani; 14. Molecular Compounds under Extreme Conditions Alexander Goncharov; 15. Superconductivity at High Pressure Mikhail Eremets; 16. Thermochemistry of High-Pressure Phases Alexandra Navrotsky; Index.