Research Resources – List

The library of Roman, Medieval and Modern Law At the includes mainly volumes and periodicals of Romanesque area, coming not only from the Legal Institutes but also from the continuous purchases made by the Department over the years, as well as precious legacies and gifts (as in the case of the Arangio-Ruiz, Amirante, Mazzacane, Solazzi funds). It also includes works of History of Medieval and Modern Law, as well as a valuable and substantial collection of precious ancient volumes.

The library of constitutional law of the Department of Jurisprudence of the University of Naples Federico II houses volumes on the discipline of constitutional law, public law and comparative public law. You can find older volumes and treatises and more recent books. There are also scientific journal and review concerning constitutional and public law.

The apparatus allows to carry out resonant column and torsional shear tests on the same saturated soil specimen, applying effective isotropic confining stress ranging between 20 kPa and 800 kPa. The torque actuator allows to investigate the non linear mechanical behaviour of both soft and hard soils up to a maximum shear strain of about 0.5%. Shear modulus and damping ratio of soil can be measured at increasing shear strain. strain rate behaviour of soil can also be investigated.
Tests can be performed in undrained and drained conditions measuring pore pressure build-up and volume change respectively.

The large triaxial cell apparatus allows to perform tests on gravelly soils. The specimens with two dimensions (diameter=100 mm, height=200mm and diameter=200 mm, height=400mm) can be tested. Cyclic and monotonic tests can be performed.

The cyclic simple shear cell is a sophisticated apparatus, which can work with a double configuration: with rigid and flexible boundaries. In the latter, specimen is enclosed with an unreinforced latex membrane confined by pressurized water. A sophisticated control system allows to guarantee the K0-condition. This apparatus can perform cyclic and monotonic tests. It is particularly suited to evaluate the liquefaction resistance of soils.

The Study Centre on Reason of State and Democracy (www.ragionidistato.it) is endowed with its own library consisting of a specialised collection on the themes of Reason of State, Tacitism, Machiavellianism in the early modern age, and a selected fund dedicated to democratic political theory.

The ARS RoSA (Archivio della Ragion di Stato / Reason of State Archive) fund consists of more than 2000 volumes that are currently being catalogued and reordered, as well as an important collection of documentary and digital material expressly dedicated to the multiple historical and theoretical declinations of the theme of ‘ratio status’.

The Historical Library houses an ancient book heritage of about 6-7000 volumes including monographs and prestigious collections, representing an unparalleled historical-scientific reference for the physical and chemical sciences. Among them: Antoine Lavoisier Trattato elementare di Chimica, Venezia 1796; Antoine-Francois De Fourcroy. Systeme Des Connaissances Chimiques. Paris 1801, First Ed.; Annales de Chimie, Paris 1789-1840, First Ed.; Mathieux Orfila. Trattato de’ Veleni. Napoli 1834, First Ed.; Marie Curie. Recherches sur les Substances Radioactives, Paris 1904.

“Facilities available:
– Sharebot Q 3D polymer printer
– Sharebot 42 3D polymer printer
– Markforged X7 3D polymer and composite printer
– Full equipment to produce polymer wires for 3D printing starting from both new and recycled materials
– Power quality analizer – Chauvin Arnoux 8331
– Gabi software for professional LCA analysis
– Hitachi TM 3000 SEM equipped with National Instruments EDX microprobe and Deben minitensile stage
– Leica DCM 3D Confocal Microscope
– Universal testing Machine 50 kN Galdabini Quasar
– Biologic SP 150 Potentiostat and Galvanostat with low impedance modulus for electrochemical analysis
– Rotating beam fatigue machine
– A series of light microscopes for various analysis
– A fully equipped metallographic preparation lab.”

Laboratory of Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) at DiSTAR is equipped with a SEM Jeol JSM5310 and a FESEM ZEISS Merlin VP. They both allow the investigation of the microstructure and morphology of raw inorganic and suitably prepared organic materials, through the acquisition of high resolution magnified digital images.
SEM Jeol JSM5310, in the lab since 1998, provides both 3D images through a secondary electron detector (SE) and topographic and compositional images through a backscattered electron detector (BSE). It is also equipped with an EDS X-Stream Inca Oxford detector that supplies qualitative evaluation of chemical elements starting from fluorine. A well performing reference standardization allows single point analyses of polished samples (resin embedded or thin sections).
The FESEM ZEISS Merlin VP SEM, available in the lab since 2017, works both in high vacuum and in variable pressure and reaches 1 million magnification. The very large vacuum chamber of Gemini 2 apparatus hosts samples up to 15 cm diameter. This SEM is equipped with an “”inlens”” detector of both secondary and backscattered electrons, a normal secondary electron detector and a variable pressure secondary electron detector. It is linked to an EDS Oxford X-Max detector and to a WDS Wave Oxford spectrometer equipped with 4 analytical crystals. The combined use of EDS and WDS analytical facilities allows the quantitative analysis of chemical elements starting from Boron. A dedicated software provides us with compositional maps for the automated evaluation of the mineralogical composition in an unknown sample. The FESEM facility allows non-destructive and non-invasive analyses of large samples, which makes this apparatus the most powerful tool for SEM investigation in cultural heritage and forensic geology fields. The laboratory is officially accredited for SEM analysis of asbestos, on both massive samples and airborne fibers.

The Necropsy room is equipped with a big necroscopic table (cm 248×129) provided with an elevator system and four small necroscopic tables (cm 130×50). All tables comply with biosafety and biosecurity standard. A refrigerated room (+2°C) cm 281x108x235 and a freezing room (- 20°C) cm 281x108x235 allow storage of large amount of material. The room is equipped with four sinks for washing and disinfection of tools utilized for necropsy activities and an aluminum cabinet allows their preservation. All the procedures are carried out in compliance with the biosafety and biosecurity rules. A laboratory hood allows the storage and processing in complete biosafety of the tissues taken during the necropsy for the execution of collateral examinations (histological, bacteriological, toxicological examination).

The Center for Instrumental Analysis is the is the shared instrument facility for chemical analysis at the Department of Pharmacy. It includes 3 high-field NMR spectrometers (700 MHz, liquid 1H/13C/15N 5 mm cryo-probe or CP-MAS probe; 600 MHz, 1H/13C/15N/31P 5 mm cryo-probe, SampleJet autosampler; 400 MHz, 1H/BB 5 mm inverse probe), one Linear Trap LC-MS system, one Triple Quadrupole LC-MS system, one Single Quadrupole GC-MS system. Purchase of a high-resolution Orbitrap instrument is planned.

Share Journals is the platform for the management and publication of open access scientific journals on behalf of the SHARE Interuniversity Consortium. Share Journals has been created by the University of Naples “Federico II “- Centre for Libraries. Since 2015 hosts the research publications of the Universities participating in the SHARE alliance, which involves the collaboration of 11 Universities of Southern Italy. Research publications are submitted to a double – blind peer – review process and are published in Italian and in English.

The IT platform is employed to publish and disseminate e-book series in Open Access. Share Books has been created by the University of Naples “Federico II “- Centre for Libraries. Since 2015 hosts the research publications of the Universities participating in the SHARE alliance, which involves the collaboration of 11 Universities of Southern Italy. Research publications are submitted to a double – blind peer – review process and are published in Italian and in English. The University of Naples Federico II owns a digital publishing brand, FedOA Press.

The ‘private cloud infrastructure was installed at the San Giovanni a Teduccio Campus and it is managed using containers and Kubernetes. The resources are divided among nodes for the collection, storage, processing and use of results using Business Intelligence techniques. In particular, the resources include two different types of machines: 1 DGX from Nvidia; 4 machines also equipped with a GPU from Nvidia. In addition, a storage system with about 750 TB of SSD storage has been deployed.

The ICT for Health project of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (DIETI) has been selected among 180 national projects of Departments of Excellence funded by MIUR in 2017. The project has a five-year duration (2018-2022) for a funding share of €9,330,030.00 and a co-financing share of €2,506,000.00. The investment in infrastructure of the Departments of Excellence project was also used for the creation of an eHealth Big Data Analytic laboratory based on a public Cloud infrastructure and local datacenter, as well as upgrading the pre-existing infrastructure of DIETI laboratories through the acquisition of new instrumentation. The public Cloud infrastructure, based on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and managed by TIM SPA, is based on AWS Cloud resources for 3 years. The resources are divided among nodes for collecting, storing, processing data, also investigating the outcome through Business Intelligence techniques. In particular, the resources include: 4 hosts (virtual machines running Linux) configured as c5.2xlarge with 8 CPUs and 16 GB RAM; 2 instances of GPU-based virtual machines managed through Amazon SageMaker. 1 Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) cluster equipped with 2 EMR Core (r5d.2xlarge) and 3 EMR Master (r5d.2xlarge) nodes.

X’Pert diffractometer is a state-of-the-art X-ray powder diffractometer, capable of offering a very wide range of analyses and the possibility a complete characterization of geological and ornamental geomaterials. It is equipped with a theta/theta geometry goniometer with 45-position automatic sample changer and fast RTMS X’Celerator detector. Analysis of minerals, rocks, archaeological finds and various materials, both natural and synthetic, can be performed, and both qualitative interpretation and quantitative evaluation by Rietveld method are provided. The samples investigated include mainly silicates and non-silicates from different geological origins, samples from metalliferous deposits from various areas of the world, and metallic and lithoid materials for mineralogical studies of archeometric type.

The In Cell 2200 is an extremely sensitive instrument based on an automated microscope, dedicated to cell imaging that allows the extremely rapid visualization of live and fixed cells, in microplates or slides, but also of subcellular organelles and small microorganisms by using modules for temperature, humidity and CO2 control;

HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SERVER – 2 AMD EPYC 7552 48-Core Processor, 190 cores – 900 GB RAM STORAGE – 7 TB NVMe SSD

The FEI Nova NanoSEM scanning electron microscopes combine best-in-class imaging with superb analytical performance in one easy-to-use instrument combining very low kV imaging and analytical capabilities with unique low vacuum performance to meet your most demanding nanoscale characterization requirements. The microscope is equipped with TLD, EDT, BSE and LVD detectors.

The Tecnai G2 S-TWIN is an easy to use transmission electron microscope (TEM) designed to provide high-resolution imaging in materials sciences, nanotechnology and life science applications. Accelerating voltages ranging from 20 kV to 200 kV are ideal for polymers and biological matrices and provide the low voltage capability needed to minimize beam damage to delicate structures. The instrument is equipped with 4K Eagle camera.