Materials processing using chemically driven spherically symmetric implosions.

摘要

A system and method for obtaining spherically symmetrical implosion of sample materials by directing radiant ignition energy (60) onto a target (10) which includes a spherically symmetrical core of selected sample material (12) concentrically surrounded. by a shell of high explosive material (14). The resulting implosive compression produces hydrodynamically controlled physical and/or chemical and/or metallurgical transformations of state in the sample material (12).