Open RQC colloquium. Lecture 29

Abstract

We‘ll discuss the carbon formation and carbon materials in the Universe and in the Earth. In particular we'll consider anthropic principle and Hoyle resonance; diamonds origin in Neptune; methane lakes in Titan, abiogenic oil formation etc. The main attention will be paid to the carbon-based materials and their application including modern electronics, superhard materials etc.. It will be explained why carbon is a unique element of the periodic system. At the end of the talk we’ll briefly concern the study of carbon materials in the Institute for High Pressure Physics.

Biography

Vadim Veniaminovich Brazhkin was born in 1961 in Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk region. In 1984 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. In 1987 he defended his Candidate's Dissertation. In 1996 - Doctor's Dissertation. Since 1984 he has been working at the Institute for High Pressure Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IHPP RAS). He went from junior researcher to Director of the IHPP RAS. In 2011 he was elected as the Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and in 2016 as the Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a specialist in the field of high pressures, phase transitions and disordered media. In 2017 V. V. Brazhkin was awarded a prestigeous Stoletov Prize. He is also the Member of the 1st July Club.

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