A path to polymerize metallic hydrogen? – MAX IV An international research group reports in Nature the observation of the phase transition of a hexagonal close-packed (HCP) crystal structure of hydrogen to a 6-fold larger hydrogen supercell. The fin...

A study in #Nature describes #polymerization activity in solid hydrogen at extreme pressures and offers clues to the formation of #metallichydrogen. The results include #Xray data from #NanoMAX beamline. Read more here: www.maxiv.lu.se/article/a-pa... #maxiv #hydrogen #DAC #superconductor