The activities of this hub are distributed between two fields: materials physics and (micro)biology.
The former is based on diamond anvil cell (DAC) and autoclave technologies.
The second uses different types of culture chamber under high hydrostatic pressure (large-volume culture tubes, optical cells and diamond anvils cells).These LGLTPE facilities for experimentation under extreme pressure and temperature conditions are part of the Plateforme lyonnaise d’expérimentation en conditions extrêmes (PLECE).PLECE brings together on the Lyon university site a range of resources capable of combining extreme conditions of pressure (from several GPa to tens of GPa) and temperature (up to 2000°C) to develop materials of geological, technological or fundamental interest.
With the support of ENS de Lyon and Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, this set of instruments was created by combining the resources of the Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon (UMR 5276) and the Institut Lumière Matière (UMR 5306) within the Fédération de Recherche André-Marie Ampère (FRAMA – FR3127).

Peace is spread over two geographical sites, on the La Doua campus of Claude Bernard University and on the Monod campus of the École normale supérieure de Lyon.
Both sites are equipped with a sample preparation laboratory for sawing, grinding, polishing and inspection by optical microscopy.

Qualitative and quantitative analyses are carried out either using methods developed on the laboratory’s other platforms, notably Raman spectroscopy (one of which has been specially equipped to accommodate DACs) or associated instruments (centre de diffractométrie Henri Longchambon), or on synchrotron light sources.