{"id":214487,"date":"2025-05-22T05:27:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T10:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/structure-of-liquid-carbon-measured-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2025-05-22T05:27:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T10:27:37","slug":"structure-of-liquid-carbon-measured-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/structure-of-liquid-carbon-measured-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Structure of liquid carbon measured for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/structure-of-liquid-carbon-measured-for-the-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the declared aim of measuring matter under extreme pressure, an international research collaboration headed by the University of Rostock and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) used the high-performance laser DIPOLE 100-X at the European XFEL for the first time in 2023. With spectacular results: In this initial experiment they managed to study liquid carbon\u2014an unprecedented achievement as the researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-09035-6\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> in the journal Nature.<\/p>\n<p>Liquid carbon can be found, for example, in the interior of planets and plays an important role in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/future+technologies\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">future technologies<\/a> like nuclear fusion. To date, however, only very little was known about carbon in its <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/liquid+form\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">liquid form<\/a> because in this state it was practically impossible to study in the lab: Under normal pressure, carbon does not melt but immediately changes into a gaseous state.<\/p>\n<p>Only under <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/extreme+pressure\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">extreme pressure<\/a> and at temperatures of approximately 4,500 degrees Celsius\u2014the highest melting point of any material\u2014does carbon become liquid. No container would withstand that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the declared aim of measuring matter under extreme pressure, an international research collaboration headed by the University of Rostock and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) used the high-performance laser DIPOLE 100-X at the European XFEL for the first time in 2023. With spectacular results: In this initial experiment they managed to study liquid carbon\u2014an unprecedented [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}