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My research has benefited of collaborations with the high-pressure laboratories at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV, Rome), Bayerisches Geoinstitut (Bayreuth, Germany), the Geodynamics Research Center of Ehime University (Matsuyama, Japan), ID18 bealine at ESRF (Grenoble), SISSI beamline at Elettra (Basovizza, Trieste) and HPCAT and GSECARS beamlines at APS (Argonne, Illinois, US).
Very recently I have been setting up my own lab at the Department of Earth Sciences in Sapienza University (Rome) thanks to a financial support awarded to my Department by the Ministry of University and Research (https://www.uniroma1.it/en/pagina/departments-excellence).
This lab is currently under construction but equipped, already, with a rotative Voggenreiter multi anvil press, three diamond anvil cells (DACs), a portable ruby-fluorescence system, a spark eroder for micro-holes in gaskets (https://loto-eng.com/products_type/spark-eroder-an-edm-machine/).
Photos by courtesy of A. Matteoli.
The rotating multi anvil press was installed by Max Voggenreiter GmbH. The apparatus consist of a 500 tons hydraulic press and a Walker-type multi-anvil module. The whole apparatus is rotatable by 360° perpendicular to the press axis. The press can cover the pressure range 2.5-28.0 GPa, corresponding to Earth's depths of about 75-840 km, thus allowing the study of geomaterial properties and petrological processes at high pressure and temperature.
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