Frontiers of high-pressure research

This book is the result of a workshop held in l991 to summarize the most recent results in the field of high pressure research. The role of high pressure experiments in the discovery of superconducting materials with a Tc above liquid nitrogen temperature has demonstrated the importance of such experiments. The same role holds true in the tailoring of materials for optoelectronic devices. In addition, much progress has been made recently in the search for metallic hydrogen, and the application of high pressure in polymer research has brought forth interesting results. Separate abstracts have been prepared for papers in this book