Ethane and methane at high pressures: structure and stability

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Elissaios Stavrou, 2, 3, a) Alexander A. Maryewski, Sergey Lobanov, 5 Artem R. Oganov, Zuzana Konôpková, 7 Vitali B. Prakapenka, and Alexander F. Goncharov b) Earth and Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C., USA Materials and Engineering Science Program, Guangdong TechnionIsrael Institute of Technology, Shantou, Guangdong, 515063, China Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 32000, Israel Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, 3 Nobel St., Moscow 143026, Russian Federation. GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences, Section 4.3, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany. DESY Photon Science, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany European XFEL GmbH, Holzkoppel 4, D-22869 Schenefeld, Germany Center for Advanced Radiation Sources, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States.