‘Beautiful accident’ leads to advances in high pressure materials synthesis | ORNL

‘Beautiful accident’ leads to advances in high pressure materials synthesis | ORNL
Ilia Ivanov (left) from Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Center for Nanophase Materials Science, Chris Tulk (right) from ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source and their collaborators received unexpected results from a neutron scattering experiment at SNS that could open a new pathway for the synthesis of novel materials and also help explain the formation of complex organic structures observed in interstellar space. (hi-res image)