Sustainability of crystallographic phase of α-Glycine under dynamic shocked conditions

Abstract

High pressure experimental studies on amino acids have gained incredible attention over the past few years in variety of research areas such as materials science, geophysics, pharmaceutical sciences, and cosmo-chemistry. On en-route to the current experimental work, one of the elegant amino acid samples of α-Glycine is preferred in order to reveal its nature of crystallographic phase stability as and when exposed to dynamic shock waves thereby subjecting it to diffraction and microscopic analyses. Considering the observed results from the various analytical techniques, it is authenticated that the title sample does not undergo any kind of structural transition under shock wave exposed situations. On the other hand, the test sample has generated a few new shoulder peaks and diffraction peaks under shocked conditions. The outcome of the attained phase stability is well substantiated by the previous static high-pressure reports.