So, for almost tree decades the Institute has been engaged in designing and manufacturing of the high performance experimental equipment and analyzing advanced materials. Piston-cylinder apparatuses working at pressure of up to 35 kbars. Combined piston-cylinder and gaseous pressure apparatus used up to 10 Kb. Yet, our researches can enjoy opportunities presented by the automated electron microprobe, scanning electron microscopy, wet analytical chemistry, mass spectroscopy, gas chromatography, AAS, Moessbauer spectroscopy, IR and Raman spectroscopy, X-ray powder diffraction. Many of these fields are headed by top-level specialists, who are constantly improving analytical techniques.
All computers have complete network capabilities.
Access to external computing facilities is possible over Internet. See also more detail description of IEM network . The scientists of IEM publish about 50-70 research papers a year. Recently, more results are getting published in the international journals, such as Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Advances in Physical Geochemistry, Metamorphic Petrology, Journal of Physical Chemistry, etc . The Institute also publishes a quarterly journal Experiment in Geosciences in English and the Contributions to Physical-Chemical Petrology book series in Russian.