By: Nicolas Jaisle, Mungo Frost, Siegfried H. Glenzer, Zuzana Konôpková, Torsten Laurus, Zena Younes, Yu Lin, Alexander F. Goncharov, Konstantin Glazyrin, Minxue Tang, Kilian Abraham, Elena Bykova, Gerd Steinle-Neumann, Heinz Graafsma, Rachel J. Husband, Ronald Redmer, Armin Bergermann, Eric Edmund, Maximilian Schörner, Karen Appel, R. Stewart Mcwilliams, Anna Celeste, Nicholas J. Hartley, Michal Andrzejewski, Carsten Baehtz, Bernhard Massani, Danielle Brown, Maximilian Schulze, Cornelius Strohm
Gold is an unreactive metal, but on X-ray free electron laser heating pre-compressed gold in hydrocarbons forms gold hydride above 40 GPa and 2200 K. The hydride has an hcp gold lattice in which supe...








