{"id":229885,"date":"2026-01-27T02:27:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/from-fleeting-to-stable-scientists-uncover-recipe-for-new-carbon-dioxide-based-energetic-materials"},"modified":"2026-01-27T02:27:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:27:29","slug":"from-fleeting-to-stable-scientists-uncover-recipe-for-new-carbon-dioxide-based-energetic-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/from-fleeting-to-stable-scientists-uncover-recipe-for-new-carbon-dioxide-based-energetic-materials","title":{"rendered":"From fleeting to stable: Scientists uncover recipe for new carbon dioxide-based energetic materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/from-fleeting-to-stable-scientists-uncover-recipe-for-new-carbon-dioxide-based-energetic-materials.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When materials are compressed, their atoms are forced into unusual arrangements that do not normally exist under everyday conditions. These configurations are often fleeting: when the pressure is released, the atoms typically relax back to a stable low-pressure state. Only a few very specific materials, like diamond, retain their high-pressure structure after returning to room temperature and atmospheric pressure.<\/p>\n<p>But locking those atomic arrangements in place under ambient conditions could create new classes of useful materials with a wide range of potential applications. One particularly compelling example is energetic materials, which are useful for propellants and explosives.<\/p>\n<p>In a study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s42004-025-01802-w\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Communications Chemistry<\/i>, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) identified a first-of-its-kind carbon dioxide-equivalent polymer that can be recovered from high-pressure conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When materials are compressed, their atoms are forced into unusual arrangements that do not normally exist under everyday conditions. These configurations are often fleeting: when the pressure is released, the atoms typically relax back to a stable low-pressure state. Only a few very specific materials, like diamond, retain their high-pressure structure after returning to room [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229885","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=229885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}