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Letter

Nature Materials 6, 39–43 (1 January 2007) | doi:10.1038/nmat1803

Triggering dynamics of the high-pressure benzene amorphization

Lucia Ciabini , Mario Santoro , Federico A. Gorelli , Roberto Bini , Vincenzo Schettino & Simone Raugei

Success in designing and tailoring solid-state reactions depends on the knowledge of the mechanisms regulating the reactivity at the microscopic level. In spite of several attempts to rationalize the reactivity of crystals, the question of the existence of a critical distance for a reaction to occur remains unsolved.