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The pyrolysis of ZIF-67 is followedin situ, and the conditions are correlated with the structural evolution and electrocatalytic performance. 

Exoplanet science has moved rapidly beyond its initial observational discovery phase with an emerging enterprise of understanding planet formation, evolution, structure and habitability. Understanding conditions in planetary interiors is essential to all of these issues. The evolving state of a planet’s deep interior will determine not only bulk physical characteristics like density and radius but also whetherdynamo and plate tectonics canoccur, both of which may be key to understanding the potential for a rich and detectablebiosphere.But understanding planetary interiors depends on understandingmatter under extreme pressures. This takes researchers into new regimes of physics which in turn, demand new methods. Material underMegabar pressures represents a frontier domain of plasma physics called Warm Dense Matter (WDM) which has recently become accessible via direct laboratory studies. In this white paper we review the state of exoplanet interior studies and the ability of High Energy Density Plasma (HEDP) WDM techniques to address critical open issues.