Search for New Highly Energetic Phases under Compression and Shear

: In this project, we performed the first search for highly energetic high pressure metastable phases obtained under compression and plastic shear in a rotational diamond anvil cell (RDAC) in azides. We combined experimental, theoretical, and modeling efforts to gain fundamental information on shear-induced PTs in materials with potentially highly energetic phases and on the ways to retain them under ambient conditions.