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Now, Peter Pauzauskie from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and colleagues have used supercritical neon to support the porous structure as it was subjected to 20 gigapascals of pressure and extreme laser heating. Although the team could not directly measure the temperature during synthesis, reference experiments gave them a rough idea that it was around 1,300 °C. Raman spectroscopy showed that the amorphous phase had changed, becoming transparent, and ruled out the presence of a superhard graphitic phase preventing pore collapse.

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