The MRE Best Paper Award Goes to …

Announcing the best paper award winners! View in Browser SUBMIT AN ARTICLE MANAGE MY ALERTS ABOUT THE JOURNAL Matter and Radiation at Extremes Congratulations to MRE Best Paper Award Winners! There are 3 winning articles for 2021! Matter and Radiation at Extremes initiated the MRE Best Paper Award in 2021, which is bestowed to authors of excellent articles published in the MRE journal in the past three years, for appreciating and acknowledging their contributions to MRE, while promoting and encouraging top quality research in the field of matter and radiation under extreme states.      Among 120 papers published in MRE from 2018 to 2020, after evaluation and discussion by the committee, it was finally decided to award three articles as the MRE Best Papers. We also celebrate the nine excellent articles nominated for the MRE Best Paper Award.   Please see the full list below. Congratulations to the winners! (In no particular order) Get Your Work Read Don't miss your chance to see your paper on next year's list! SUBMIT AN ARTICLE Current status and highlights of the ELI-NP research program K. A. Tanaka, K. M. Spohr, D. L. Balabanski, S. Balascuta, L. Capponi, M. O. Cernaianu, M. Cuciuc, A. Cucoanes, I. Dancus, A. Dhal, B. Diaconescu, D. Doria, P. Ghenuche, D. G. Ghita, S. Kisyov, V. Nastasa, J. F. Ong, F. Rotaru, D. Sangwan, P.-A. Söderström, D. Stutman, G. Suliman, O. Tesileanu, L. Tudor, N. Tsoneva, C. A. Ur, D. Ursescu, N. V. Zamfir READ MORE > This standout review paper provides both a comprehensive summary of the most important scientific infrastructures built in the European Union as well as the physics to be studied and instrumentation which makes it possible. This article won the MRE Best Paper award because it is a perfect introduction for young scientists entering this specific field and a perfect reference for the potential user community which will soon perform unique experiments in this installation. - Stefan Weber, Associate Editor of MRE Understanding the effects of radiative preheat and self-emission from shock heating on equation of state measurement at 100s of Mbar using spherically converging shock waves in a NIF hohlraum Joseph Nilsen, Andrea L. Kritcher, Madison E. Martin, Robert E. Tipton, Heather D. Whitley, Damian C. Swift, Tilo Döppner, Benjamin L. Bachmann, Amy E. Lazicki, Natalie B. Kostinski, Brian R. Maddox, Gilbert W. Collins, Siegfried H. Glenzer, Roger W. Falcone READ MORE > Extremely high pressure hugoniots (above 400 Mbar) were previously rarely achieved unless using nuclear explosions. Here it is the first time using NIF that such matter at extreme has been reached opening a new domain of EOS exploration. In this paper radiation issues are discussed both coming from hard x-rays generated on the cavity walls or by the shock itself as its temperature becomes extremely important. This paper won the MRE Best Paper Award because it is one of the first showing the convergence to atomic pressures that might revolutionize our understanding of the extreme pressure domain. - Michel Koenig, Co Editor-in-Chief of MRE Superconductivity in La and Y hydrides: Remaining questions to experiment and theory Viktor Struzhkin, Bing Li, Cheng Ji, Xiao-Jia Chen, Vitali Prakapenka, Eran Greenberg, Ivan Troyan, Alexander Gavriliuk, Ho-kwang Mao READ MORE > This excellent review addresses the on-going pursuit of room-temperature superconductivity, with a focus on pressurizing metal hydrides. It covers the latest theoretical discussions and experimental studies, including those proposed superhydrides "doped" with metallic hydrogen. This review won the MRE Best Paper award for it's comprehensiveness as well as its focus on enlightening the debate on the newly emerging hot topics of the field and how these may challenge and grow studies of high-temperature superconductivity in the future. - Bin Chen, Guest Editor of MRE MRE BEST PAPER AWARD NOMINEES  Characterization of supersonic and subsonic gas targets for laser wakefield electron acceleration experiments S. Lorenz, G. Grittani, E. Chacon-Golcher, C. M. Lazzarini, et al. READ MORE > Extreme brightness laser-based neutron pulses as a pathway for investigating nucleosynthesis in the laboratory S. N. Chen, F. Negoita, K. Spohr, E. d'Humières, et al. READ MORE > Challenges for plasma-facing components in nuclear fusion Jochen Linke, Juan Du, Thorsten Loewenhoff, Gerald Pintsuk, et al. READ MORE > Review of stopping power and Coulomb explosion for molecular ion in plasmas Guiqiu Wang, He Yi, Yujiao Li, Yaochuan Wang, et al. READ MORE > Macroscopic laser–plasma interaction under strong non-local transport conditions for coupled matter and radiation J. Nikl, M. Holec, M. Zeman, M. Kuchařík, et al. READ MORE > Challenges of x-ray spectroscopy in investigations of matter under extreme conditions O. Renner, F. B. Rosmej READ MORE > Using cylindrical implosions to investigate hydrodynamic instabilities in convergent geometry J. P. Sauppe, S. Palaniyappan, E. N. Loomis, J. L. Kline, et al. READ MORE > New developments in high-pressure X-ray diffraction beamline for diamond anvil cell at SPring-8 N. Hirao, S. I. Kawaguchi, K. Hirose, K. Shimizu, et al. READ MORE > Key problems of the four-dimensional Earth system Ho-kwang Mao, Wendy L. Mao READ MORE > Share on your social channels Follow us on social media   Copyright © 2022 AIP Publishing. All rights reserved. 1305 Walt Whitman Rd., Melville, NY 11747 You are receiving this email because you have opted-in to receive alerts from us. 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