The structure, energetics, and dynamics of shock conditions generated in a nano-cluster upon impact on a crystalline surface are investigated with molecular-dynamics simulations for a 561-atom argon cluster incident with a velocity of 3 kilometers per second onto a sodium chloride surface. The "piling-up" shock phenomenon occurring upon impact, coupled with cascades of energy and momentum transfer processes and inertial confinement of material in the interior of the cluster, creates a transient medium lasting for about a picosecond and characterized by extreme local density, pressure, and kinetic temperature. The nano-shock conditions and impulsive nature of interactions in the newly formed compressed nonequilibrium environment open avenues for studying chemical reactivity and dynamics catalysed via cluster impact.
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