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DIEGO GATTA

E-mail : diego.gattaATunimi.it
Address : CNR – Institute of Crystallography, Via Amendola 122/o – 70126 Bari
Affiliation: Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra.
Position : Associate

 

CV :

Education/Career

Since March 2016: Full Professor of Mineralogy and Geo-resources at the Earth Sciences Department – University of Milan, Italy.

 

Nov 2010 – Feb 2016: Associate Professor of Mineralogy and Geo-resources at the Earth Sciences Department – University of Milan, Italy.

 

 Feb 2005-Oct 2010: Assistant Professor of Mineralogy and Geo-resources at the Earth Sciences Department –University of Milan, Italy.

Visiting Professor at the Crystallography Laboratory, Dept. of Geosciences ,Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA –  April-June 2006 and July-August 2009.

 

 Oct 2002 – Jan 2005: Postdoctoral fellowship at the Bayerisches Geoinstitut – Universität Bayreuth, Germany

Research activity: Structure-property relationships of minerals (or their synthetic counterparts) and their solid solutions. In particular: order-disorder processes, equation of state and phase transitions. Phase characterization by single-crystal and powder X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy and various spectroscopies, as well as in-situ measurements of physical properties.

 

1998 – 2002: Ph.D. programme in Mineralogy and Petrology at the Laboratory of HP-Crystallography – Earth Sciences Department – University of Perugia.

Research activity: High Pressure single-crystal X-ray diffraction and synchrotron powder diffraction of natural zeolites, to determine the deformation mechanisms and compressibility of microporous materials with Si/Al-framework structures.

Doctoral dissertation  held at the Earth Sciences Department – University of Florence on  8th March 2002, under the joint programme between the Universities of Florence and Perugia. Title of the dissertation thesis: “High-pressure structural behaviour  and compressibility of  natural zeolites”.

1993-1998: ”Laurea” degree studies in Geological Sciences (a 5-year degree programme) at the Earth Sciences Department – University of Perugia, Italy. Courses in mathematics, physics, chemistry, physical-chemistry, crystallography, mineralogy, applied mineralogy, ore mineralogy, geochemistry, petrology, structural geology, geophysics, palaeontology. Graduated summa cum laude in December 1998 with a dissertation thesis on “Full phase analysis of Portland clinker by X-ray powder diffraction”.

 

Awards/Prizes/Fellowship

2002 – Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology (SIMP): Prize for the best PhD Thesis of the year;

2004- Italian Association of Crystallography (AIC): Prize for the best young researcher for the excellence and the novelty of the research activity;

2005 – Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology: Prize, for young scientists, for a short period (3 months) of research activity abroad;

2006 – Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology: “Panichi Prize”, for young researchers for the excellence and the novelty of the research activity;

2008 –  Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland: “Max Hey Medal”;

2011 – Mineralogical Society of America Fellow;

2013 –  European Mineralogical Union: EMU Medal for Research Excellence 2013;

2016 – Recipient of “Premio Internazionale di Cultura “Re Manfredi” per la Ricerca Scientifica” – Fondazione “Re Manfredi” (www.premioremanfredi.it).

In 2013, I was honoured by the new mineral name “diegogattaite”:

Rumsey M.S., Welch M.D., Kampf A.R., Spratt J. (2013) Diegogattaite, Na2CaCu2Si8O20·H2O: a new nanoporous copper sheet silicate from Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Fields, Republic of South Africa. Mineralogical Magazine, 77, 3155-3162.

 

Association membership:

from 1998:    Italian Society of Mineralogy and Petrology (SIMP)

from 1999:    Italian Zeolite Association (AIZ)

from 2001:    Italian Association of Crystallography (AIC)

from 2001:    International Zeolite Association (IZA)

from 2002:    Mineralogical Society of America

from 2006:    Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland

  

Coordination of bilateral agreements

I am the coordinator of bilateral agreements for national/international cooperation between the University of Milano – Dept. Earth Sciences and:

– ELETTRA, Italian Synchrotron Source – Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A. (2012-2017);

– Institute of Mineralogy and Petrography, Universität Innsbruck, Austria (2011-2014; 2015-2018);

– Italian Custom Agency – Regional directorates for Lombardia, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Milano (2012-2014, 2015-2017);

– Institute for Technology of Nuclear and Other Mineral Raw Materials (ITNMS), Belgrade, Serbia

(2012-2015);

– The BK21Plus Institute of Earth, Astronomy, and Atmosphere at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea (2013-2016).

 

 

Service for national and international institutions

I served as reviewer for funding agencies:

– 2007, 2011, 2013, US National Science Foundation

– 2008, 2009, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

– 2015, 2016, 2017 Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

– 2017, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) of the UK

 I am member of the User Proposal Review Panel at the large scale facility

“Forschungs-Neutronenquelle Heinz Maier-Leibnitz” (nuclear reactor FRM II, Munich, 2012-2018) and at “DESY – PETRA III (synchrotron source, Hamburg, 2015-2018).

 I am currently serving the Italian Association of Crystallography as President (2018-2020) and the Informal Group of “Georeources and Mineralogical Applications” of the Mineralogical Society of Italy (SIMP) as President (2016-2018). I have served the Mineralogical Society of America on the Kraus Research Grant Committee between 2007-2013, and currently I am serving on the “Roebling Medal committee” (2018-2020) (http://www.minsocam.org/MSA/Committees.html).

Referee for: American Mineralogist, Applied Clay Science, Clays and Clay Minerals, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, European Journal of Mineralogy, Journal of the American Chemical
Society, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Journal of Material Chemistry, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, Mineralogy and Petrology,
Mineralogical Magazine, Nature, Nature Geosciences, Nature Materials, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, Physical Review Letters, Zeitschrift für Kristallographie.

Associate Editor of the American Mineralogist (from September 2005).
Associate Editor of the Mineralogical Magazine (from October 2006).
Associate Editor of the Open Journal of Mineralogy (from May 2007).


Teaching Experiences and Certificates
– 2001: Teaching certificate for Natural Sciences and Mathematics in Italian secondary schools.
– Department of Earth Sciences – University of Milano. In charge of the courses in:
     Applied Mineralogy (Master programme, since 2005)
     Geomaterials (Master programme, since 2009)
     Georesources (Bachelor programme, since 2010)
     Mineral physics (Master programme, 2007 only)
(lectures, practicals, supervisions, fieldwork and seminars for about 400 h/y).
I am member of the teaching staff of the Doctoral School in Earth Sciences – Univ. Milano. Over the last four years, I have supervised five Bachelor/Master and one PhD thesis, respectively

Current research interests and research plans for the immediate future

I have authored or co-authored more than 150 peer-reviewed journal articles (since 2001) on mineralogical applications of single-crystal and powder X-ray and neutron diffraction, electron microscopy and various spectroscopies (e.g. Raman, IR, LA-ICP-MAS). The diverse areas of research encompassed by this work include

  • mineral physics: structure-property relationships of minerals and their solid solutions, in particular order-disorder processes, equations of state and phase transitions;
  • mineralogical crystallography: structure and chemistry of natural and synthetic open-framework silicates and phosphates, phyllosilicates, chain-silicates, nesosilicates and oxides;
  • detecting protons and/or structurally incorporated water in nominally anhydrous minerals;
  • industrial minerals; nuclear wastes; environmental and medical mineralogy; gemmology.

List of projects supported by third-party funds:

At present, all the research projects in which I am involved are supported by public institutions:

  • I have been member of the Research Unit of Milan in the framework of the PRIN 2011 project “Dalle materie prime del sistema Terra alle applicazioni tecnologiche: Studi cristallochimici e strutturali” (rif. 2010EARRRZ, P.I.:  Brigatti), supported by the Italian Ministry of Education
  • I have been the Principal Investigator of the project “Futuro in Ricerca 2012 – FIRB Giovani” : “ImPACT – Impose Pressure and Change Technology – Sistemi nanostrutturati in matrici zeolitiche” (2013-2016), supported by the Italian Ministry of Education and devoted to young scientists (644 kEuro). ImPAct was the only project from the research area of Earth Sciences supported on 2012.


List of talks given (at national and international congresses, or short-courses):

  1. Department of Chemistry – University of Perugia (I). Invited speaker for the international school: “Materials and technology for the conservation and restoration of cultural heritage“, 28 Sept. – 4 Oct. 2000;
  2. 11th Congr. E.U.G., Strasbourg (F), 8-12 April 2001. Oral presentation on “Magma Mixing Structures in 3D Through Serial Slices Reconstruction: Visualizing Chaotic Dynamics During Magmas Interaction”;
  3. 9th  Congr. of the Italian Synchrotron Light Association, Florence (I), 5-7 July 2001. Oral presentation on “Volume measurements of dioctahedral mica at simultaneously high pressure and temperature”;
  4. “Zeolite’02” – 6th International Conference on the Occurrence, Properties and Utilization of Natural Zeolites, Thessaloniki (GR), 3-7 June Oral presentation on “New insights on HP-behaviour of microporous materials from X-ray single crystal data”;
  5. 23rd Congr. Italian Association of Crystallography, Trieste (I), 21-25 July 2003. Oral presentation (invited speaker) on “Topological effects on microporous materials under pressure conditions: framework and extra-framework behaviour of Ca- and Ba-fibrous zeolites”;
  6. Institut für Geowissenschaften – Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (D), 16 April 2004.  Invited speaker on “Zeolite under pressure: an unexplored world”;
  7. 32nd International Geological Congress, Florence (I), 20-28 August 2004. Oral presentation on “A systematic study of fibrous zeolites under pressure”;
  8. 34th Congr. Italian Association of Crystallography, Rome (I), 26-29 September 2004. Oral presentation (Key note, invited speaker) on “High-pressure crystallography of natural microporous materials: experimental set-up and comparative crystal physics”.
  9. 20th U.Cr. Congress, Florence (I), 23-31 August 2005. Oral presentation on “High-pressure behaviour of feldspathoids: the case of analcite”;
  10. “Zeolite’06” – 7th International Conference on the Occurrence, Properties and Utilization of Natural Zeolites, Socorro, New Mexico-USA, 16-21 July 2006. Oral presentation (Key note, invited speaker) on “Does porous mean soft? The state-of-the-art on the elastic behaviour of microporous silicates“;
  11. of Mineralogy and Petrology – University of Turin (I), 1 March 2007. Invited speaker on “Single-crystal X-ray diffraction experiments at high-pressure”.
  12. Earth Sciences Dept. – University of Florence (I), 27-28 March 2007. Invited speaker on “Neutron diffraction”, intensive short-course for PhD students.
  13. Congr. “Frontiers in Mineral Sciences” – Cambridge (UK), 26-28 June 2007. Oral presentation on “Evolution of the modulated superstructure of nepheline at high-pressure: in-situ single-crystal X-ray diffraction study”.
  14. 6th Congr. Italian Association of Earth Sciences (F.I.S.T) – Rimini (Italy), 12-14 September 2007. Oral presentation on “Isothermal equation of state and structural evolution of the modulated super-structure of nepheline at high-pressure”.
  15. Institut für Geowissenschaften – Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (D), 26-27 November 2007. Invited speaker on “Natural microporous materials: occurrence, behavior at non-ambient conditions and technological applications” and “The potentiality of single-crystal neutron diffraction: detecting water in nominally anhydrous materials”.
  16. Earth Sciences Dept. – University of Florence (I), 1-2 February 2008. Invited speaker on “Single-crystal and powder neutron diffraction at non-ambient conditions”, intensive short-course for PhD students;
  17. G.U. General Assembly, Wien (A), 13-18 April 2008. Oral presentation on “Leucite at high-pressure: elastic behavior and phase stability”;
  18. 1st Joint Congr. Italian Association of Mineralogy and Petrology and Italian Association of Crystallography – Sestri Levante (Italy), 7-12 September 2008.  Oral presentation (invited speaker)  on “New insights into the crystal-chemistry of epididymite and eudidymite: a single-crystal neutron diffraction study”;
  19. EU R.I.T.A. User workshop (Research Infrastructure Transnational Access at the Bayerisches Geoinstitut, Bayreuth), Verbania-Pallanza, Sept. 28 – 01, 2008. Oral presentation on “Effect of the channel-content on the elastic behaviour of open-framework materials”;
  20. Institut für Mineralogie und Petrographie – Universität Innsbruck (A), 22 January 2009. Invited speaker on “Open-framework silicates at high pressure: The case of natural zeolites”.
  21. Earth Sciences Dept. – University of Florence (I), 7-8 May 2008. Invited speaker on “Neutron diffraction in Earth Sciences”, intensive short-course for PhD students.
  22. U.Cr. – N.A.T.O. International School of Crystallography, Erice (I), 4-14 June 2009. Invited speaker on “Microporous materials at high-pressure: are they really soft?”.
  23. American Crystallographic Association – Annual Meeting, Toronto (CA), 25 – 30 July 2009. Invited speaker on “Phase Transitions in Microporous Materials”.
  24. Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA-USA, 1 September 2009. Invited speaker for a seminar on “Natural Zeolites: Occurrence, Crystal-Chemistry, Behaviour at Non-Ambient Conditions and Technological Applications”.
  25. 7th Congr. Italian Association of Earth Sciences (F.I.S.T) – Rimini (Italy), 9-11 September 2009. Oral presentation (invited speaker) on “Polytypism and elastic behavior: the case of phengites”.
  26. 7th Congr. Italian Association of Earth Sciences (F.I.S.T) – Rimini (Italy), 9-11 September 2009. Oral presentation on “Structural evolution of coexisting 3T and 2M1 pgengite micas up to 11 GPa: An in-situ single-crystal X-ray diffraction study”.
  27. 7th Congr. Italian Association of Earth Sciences (F.I.S.T) – Rimini (Italy), 9-11 September 2009. Oral presentation (Key note, invited speaker) on “Stability at high-pressure of Al5BO9: A mullite type material with outstanding applications”.
  28. “Zeolite 2010” – 8th International Conference of the Occurrence, Properties, and Utilization of Natural Zeolites, Sofia, Bulgaria, 10–18 July 2010. Oral presentation (Key note, invited speaker) on “Pressure-induced expansion in zeolites: fate or reality?”
  29. Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, University of Zagreb, Croatia, 20 September 2010. Invited speaker on “Crystal-chemistry of natural zeolites”.
  30. 10th Congress of Italian Zeolite Association “Advances in Zeolite Science and Technology” – Naples, 14-17 September 2011. Invited speaker on “Cs-zeolites under extreme conditions:  comparative thermoelastic behaviour of Cs-ABW,Cs-CAS and Cs-ANA”.
  31. DESY – PETRA III – German National Sources of Synchrotron Light, 1 July 2013. Invited speaker on: “Porous materials at high pressure: elastic behaviour and structure evolution”.
  32. 17th National Congress of Catalysis GIC 2013 and 11th National Congress of Zeolites Science and Technology – Riccione (Italy), 15-18 September 2013. Oral presentation (Key note, invited speaker) on: “Pressure-induced hyper-confinement in zeolites: today, tomorrow”.
  33. EGU General Assembly 2014, Wien (A), 27 April – 2 May 2014 – “Microporous materials under extreme conditions – EMU Medal in Research 2013 presentation”.
  34. Zeolite 2014 – 9th International Conference on the Occurrence, Properties and Utilization of Natural Zeolites – Belgrade, Serbia, 8-13 June 2014. Oral presentation on: “Compressional behaviour of paulingite -A sub-nanosponge?” .
  35. 92nd Annual Meeting Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft (DMG), Jena, Germany, 21 – 24 September 2014. Plenary lecture on: “Open-framework silicates at extreme conditions” (http://www.dmg2014.de).
  36. Department of Material Sciences and Physics, Universitaet Salzburg (Austria). 27 May 2015. Invited speaker for a seminar on “Microporous materials under extreme conditions: the case of zeolites”.
  37. Joint Congress of the SIMP-AIV-SoGeI-SGI “Il Pianeta Dinamico: sviluppi e prospettive a 100 anni da Wegener”, Firenze (I), 2-4 September 2015. Oral presentation (Key note, invited speaker) on: “The Cs-cycle in nuclear processes: From Cs-nanosponges to ceramic Cs-bearing materials” .
  38. Physics Department, Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany. 11 January 2016. Invited speaker for a seminar on “Neutrons in Mineralogy: the complex H-bonding networks in natural phosphates”.
  39. National Conference on Diamond and Colored Gemstones “Dalla Mineralogia Applicata alla Gemmologia”, Catania (I), 18-19 January 2016. Invited speaker for a seminar on: “X-ray diffraction in gemology”.
  40. 39th Annual Meeting of the British Zeolite Association, Bath (UK), 21-23 March 2016. Oral presentation (Plenary lecture) on: “Microporous materials under pressure: their structural response at the atomic scale”.
  41. Joint Congress of the Italian and Spanish Crystallographic Associations (MISCA), Tenerife (Spain), 21-25 June 2016. Oral presentation on “High-pressure behavior and phase transition in colemanite, an industrially relevant inoborate”.
  42. Italian Crystallographic Association: 50 years anniversary, Rome 19-20 January 2017. Invited speaker on: “Crystallography and Mineralogy”.

  

Full Publications List  [Scopus ID: 7005077079;  ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8348-7181,

ResearcherID: P-3486-2017]

  • Publications in peer-reviewed journals:
  1. Comodi P., Gatta G.D., Zanazzi P.F. (2001): High-pressure structural behaviour of heulandite. Eur. J. Mineral., 13, 497-505.
  1. Comodi P., Gatta G.D., Zanazzi P.F. (2002): High-pressure structural behaviour of scolecite. Eur. J. Mineral. 14, 567-574.
  2. Comodi P., Gatta G.D., Zanazzi  P.F., Levy D., Crichton W. (2002): Thermal equations of state of dioctahedral micas on the join muscovite-paragonite. Phys. Chem. Minerals, 29, 538-544.
  3. Perugini D., Poli G., Gatta G.D. (2002): Analysis and Simulation of Magma Mixing Processes in 3D. Lithos, 65, 313-330.
  4. Comodi P., Gatta G.D., Zanazzi P.F. (2003): Effects of pressure on the structure of bikitaite Eur. J. Mineral., 15, 247-255.
  5. Gatta G.D., Masci S., Vivani R. (2003): Dimensional reduction in zirconium phosphate; from layer to ribbons to chains. J. Mater. Chem., 13, 1215-1222.
  6. Gatta G.D., Comodi P., Zanazzi P.F. (2003): New insights on high-pressure behaviour of microporous materials from X-ray single crystal data. Micropor. Mesopor. Mater., 61, 105-111.
  7. Bizzarri R., Ambrosetti P., Argenti P., Gatta G.D., Baldanza A. (2004). ­L’affioramento del Caio (Lago di Corbara, Orvieto, Italia Centrale) nell’ambito dell’evoluzione paleogeografica Plio-Pleistocenica della Valle del Tevere: evidenze sedimentologiche e stratigrafiche. Il Quaternario, 16(2), 241-255.
  8. Gatta G.D., Boffa Ballaran T., Comodi P., Zanazzi P.F. (2004): Isothermal equation of state and compressional behavior of tetragonal edingtonite. Am. Mineral., 89, 633-639.
  9. Gatta G.D. & Boffa Ballaran T. (2004): New insight into the crystal structure of orthorhombic edingtonite: evidence for a split Ba site. Mineral. Mag., 68, 167-175.
  10. Gatta G.D., Boffa Ballaran T., Comodi P., Zanazzi P.F. (2004): Comparative compressibility and equation of state of orthorhombic and tetragonal edingtonite. Phys. Chem. Minerals, 31, 288-298.
  11. Comodi P., Bernardi M., Bentivoglio A., Gatta G.D., Zanazzi P.F. (2004)
    The production and technology of glazed ceramics from the middle ages, found in the Saepinum territory (Italy): a multimethodic approach. Archaeometry , 46 (3), 405-419.
  12. Gatta G.D. & Wells S.A. (2004): Rigid Unit Modes at high-pressure: an explorative study of a fibrous zeolite like framework with EDI topology. Phys. Chem. Minerals, 31, 465-474.
  13. Vivani R., Costantino F., Nocchetti M., Gatta G.D. (2004): Structural homologies in benzylamino-N,N-bis methylphosphonic acid and its layered zirconium derivative. J. Solid State Chem., 177, 4013-4022.
  14.  Iezzi G., Gatta G.D., Kockelmann W., Della Ventura G., Rinaldi R., Schäfer W., Piccinini M., Gaillard F. (2005): Low-T neutron powder-diffraction and synchrotron-radiation IR study of synthetic amphibole Na(NaMg)Mg5Si8O22(OH)2 . Am. Mineral., 90, 695-700.
  15.  Gatta G.D., Comodi P., Zanazzi P.F., Boffa Ballaran T. (2005): Anomalous elastic behavior and high-pressure structural evolution of zeolite levyne. Am. Mineral., 90, 645-652.
  16.  Gatta G.D., Boffa Ballaran T., Iezzi G. (2005): High-pressure X-ray and Raman study of a Li-clinopyroxene.  Phys. Chem. Minerals, 32, 132–139.
  17. Gatta G.D. (2005) A comparative study of fibrous zeolites under pressure. Eur. J. Mineral.,17, 411-421.
  18. Comodi P., Zanazzi P.F., Cera F., Vivani R., Garofani P., Miscetti G., Gatta G.D. (2005) I materiali sostitutivi dell’Amianto: La de-vetrificazione di fibre ceramiche refrattarie e lane minerali in condizioni di lavori ad alta temperatura (pagg 1-26). In “L’Industria e l’amianto – I nuovi materiali e le nuove tecnologie a dieci anni dalla Legge 257/1992”, edit by the Italian Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), 541 pp.
  19. Rinaldi R., Gatta G.D.,  Knight K.S., Geiger C., Artioli G. (2005) Crystal chemistry, cation ordering and thermoelastic behaviour of CoMgSiO4 olivine at high temperature as studied by in-situ neutron powder diffraction. Phys. Chem. Minerals, 32, 655-664.
  20. Gatta G.D., Nestola F., Bromiley G.D., Mattauch S. (2006) The real topological configuration of the extra-framework content in alkali-poor beryl: a multi-methodological study. Am. Mineral., 91, 29-34.
  21. Gatta G.D. & Lee Y. (2006) On the elastic behaviour of zeolite mordenite: a synchrotron powder diffraction study. Phys. Chem. Minerals, 32, 726 – 732.
  22. Gatta G.D., Nestola F., Boffa Ballaran T. (2006) Elastic behavior, phase transition and pressure induced structural evolution of analcime. Am. Mineral., 91, 568-578.
  23. Nestola F., Gatta G.D., Boffa Ballaran T. (2006) The effect of Ca substitution on the elastic and structural behavior of orthoenstatite. Am. Mineral., 91, 809-815.
  24. Gatta G.D., Nestola F., Boffa Ballaran T. (2006) Elastic  behaviour and structural evolution of topaz at high pressure. Phys. Chem. Minerals, 33, 235-242.
  25. Gatta G.D. & Wells S.A. (2006) Structural evolution of zeolite levyne under hydrostatic and non-hydrostatic pressure: geometric modelling . Phys. Chem. Minerals, 33, 243-255.
  26. Gatta G.D., Nestola F., Walter J. (2006) On the thermo-elastic behaviour of kyanite: a neutron powder diffraction study up to 1200°C. Mineral. Mag., 70, 309-317.
  27. Gatta G.D., Nestola F., Bromiley G.D., Loose A. (2006) New insight into crystal chemistry of topaz: A multi-methodological study. Am Mineral., 91, 1839-1846.
  28.  Dubrovinsky L., Dubrovinskaia N., Kantor I., Nestola F., Gatta D. (2006) High-brilliance X-ray system for high-pressure in-house research: applications for studies of superhard materials. High Pressure Research,  26, 137–143.
  29.  Angel R.J., Bujak M., Zhao J., Gatta G.D., Jacobsen S.D. (2007) Effective hydrostatic limits of pressure media for high-pressure crystallographic studies. J. Appl. Crystallogr., 40, 26–32.
  30. Gatta G.D., Rinaldi R., Knight  K.S., Molin G., Artioli G. (2007) High temperature structural and thermoelastic behaviour of mantle orthopyroxene: an in situ neutron powder diffraction study. Phys. Chem. Minerals, 34, 185-200.
  31. Gatta G.D., Kantor I.,  Boffa Ballaran T.,  Dubrovinsky L., McCammon C. (2007) Effect of non-hydrostatic conditions on the elastic behaviour of magnetite: An in-situ single-crystal X-ray diffraction study. Phys. Chem. Minerals, 34, 627–635.
  32. Gatta G.D. & Angel R.J. (2007) Elastic behavior and pressure-induced structural evolution of nepheline: implications for the nature of the modulated superstructure. Am. Mineral., 92, 1446-1455.
  33. Gatta G.D. & Lee Y. (2007) Anisotropic elastic behaviour and structural evolution of zeolite phillipsite at high-pressure: a synchrotron powder diffraction study. Micropor. Mesopor. Mater., 105, 239-250.
  34. Gatta G.D., Rotiroti N., Bellatreccia F., Della Ventura G. (2007) Crystal-chemistry of leucite from the Roman Comagmatic Province (Central Italy): a multi-methodological study. Mineral. Mag., 71, 679-690.
  35. Gatta G.D. (2008) Does porous mean soft? On the elastic behaviour and structural evolution of zeolites under pressure. Z. Kristallogr., 223, 160–170.
  36. Gatta G.D. & Lee Y. (2008) Pressure-induced structural evolution and elastic behaviour of Na6Cs2Ga6Ge6O24·Ge(OH)6  variant of cancrinite: a synchrotron powder diffraction study. Micropor. Mesopor. Mater., 116, 51-58.
  37. Gatta G.D., Rotiroti N., Fisch M., Kadiyski M., Armbruster T. (2008) Stability at high-pressure, elastic behaviour and pressure-induced structural evolution of CsAlSi5O12, a potential nuclear waste disposal phase. Phys. Chem. Minerals , 35, 521-533.
  38. Gatta G.D., Rotiroti N., Zanazzi P.F.,  Rieder M., Drabek M., Weiss Z., Klaska R. (2008) Synthesis and crystal structure of the feldspathoid CsAlSiO4: an open-framework silicate and potential nuclear waste disposal phase. Am. Mineral., 93, 988-995.
  39. Gatta G.D., Rotiroti N., McIntyre G.J., Guastoni A., Nestola F. (2008) New insights into the crystal chemistry of epididymite and eudidymite from Malosa, Malawi : a single-crystal neutron diffraction study. Am. Mineral., 93, 1158-1165.
  40. Gatta G.D., Rotiroti N., Boffa Ballaran T., Pavese A. (2008) Leucite at high-pressure: elastic behaviour, phase stability and petrological implications. Am. Mineral., 93, 1588-1596.
  41. Sartbaeva A., Gatta G.D., Wells S.A. (2008) Flexibility window controls pressure-induced phase transition in analcime. Europhysics Letters, 83, 26002 (doi: 10.1209/0295-5075/83/26002).
  42. Angel J.R., Gatta G.D., Boffa Ballaran T., Carpenter M. (2008) The mechanism of coupling in the modulated structure of nepheline. Can. Mineral.,  46, 1465-1476.
  43. Adamo I., Pavese A., Prosperi L., Diella V., Ajò D., Gatta G.D., Smith C.P. (2008) Aquamarine, Maxixe-type beryl, and hydrothermal synthetic blue beryl: Analysis and identification. Gems and Gemology, 44, 214-226.
  44. Adamo I., Gatta G.D., Rotiroti N., Pavese A., Diella V. (2008) Gemmological investigation of a synthetic blue beryl: a multi-methodological study. Mineral. Mag., 72, 799–808.
  45. Gatta G.D., Lee Y., Kao C.C. (2009) Elastic behavior of vanadinite, Pb5(VO4)3Cl, a microporous non-zeolitic mineral. Phys. Chem. Minerals, 36, 311-317.
  46. Della Ventura G., Gatta G.D., Redhammer G.J., Bellatreccia F., Loose A., Parodi G.C. (2009) Single-crystal polarized FTIR spectroscopy and neutron diffraction refinement of cancrinite. Phys. Chem. Minerals, 36, 193-206.
  47. Gatta G.D., Cappelletti P., Rotiroti N., Slebodnick C., Rinaldi R. (2009) New insights into the crystal structure and crystal chemistry of the zeolite phillipsite. Am. Mineral., 94, 190-199.
  48. Gatta G.D., Rotiroti N., Pavese A., Lotti P., Curetti N. (2009) Structural evolution of a 3T phengite mica up to 10 GPa: an in-situ single-crystal X-ray diffraction study. Z. Kristallogr., 224, 302-310.
  49. Gatta G.D., Rotiroti N., Zucali M. (2009) Plastic deformations in kyanites by tectonometamorphic processes: a single-crystal X-ray diffraction study. Mineral. Mag., 73, 359–371.
  50. Gatta G.D., Rotiroti N., Boffa Ballaran T., Sanchez-Valle C., Pavese A. (2009) Elastic behavior and phase-stability of pollucite, a potential host for nuclear waste. Am. Mineral., 94, 1137-1143.
  51. Detrie T.A., Ross N.L., Angel R.J., Gatta G.D. (2009) Equation of state and structure of prehnite to 9.8 GPa. Eur. J. Mineral., 21, 561 – 570.
  52. Gatta G.D., Sartbaeva A., Wells A.S. (2009) Compression behaviour and flexibility window of the analcime-like feldspathoids: experimental and theoretical findings. Eur. J. Mineral., 21, 571–580.
  53. Gatta G.D., Rinaldi R., McIntyre G.J., Nénert G., Bellatreccia F., Guastoni A., Della Ventura G. (2009) On the crystal structure and crystal chemistry of pollucite, (Cs,Na)16Al16Si32O96·nH2O: a natural microporous material of interest in nuclear technology. Am. Mineral.,  94, 1560-1568.
  54. Rossetti P., Gatta G.D., Diella V., Carbonin S., Della Giusta A., Ferrario A. (2009) The magnetite ore districts of the southern Aosta Valley (Western Alps, Italy): a mineralogical study of metasomatized chromite ore. Mineral. Mag., 73, 737–751.
  55. Gatta G.D., Rotiroti N., Fisch M., Armbruster Th. (2010) Stability at high pressure, elastic behavior and pressure-induced structural evolution of ‘‘Al5BO9’’, a mullite-type ceramic material. Phys. Chem. Minerals, 37, 227-236.
  56. Gatta G.D. (2010) Extreme deformation mechanisms in open-framework silicates at high-pressure: Evidence of anomalous inter-tetrahedral angles. Micropor. Mesopor. Mater., 128, 78–84.
  57. Tribaudino M., Gatta G.D., Yongjae L. (2010) A high-pressure cubic-to-tetragonal phase-transition in melanophlogite, a SiO2 clathrate phase. Micropor. Mesopor. Mater., 129, 267–273.
  58. Gatta G.D., Meven M., Bromiley G. (2010) Effects of temperature on the crystal structure of epidote: a neutron single-crystal diffraction study at 293 and 1,070 K. Phys. Chem. Minerals, 37,  475-485.
  59. Gatta G.D., Kahlenberg V., Kaindl R., Rotiroti N., Cappelletti P., de’ Gennaro M. (2010) Crystal-structure and low-temperature behavior of  “disordered” thomsonite. Am. Mineral., 95,  495-502.
  60. Gatta G.D., Birch D.W., Rotiroti N. (2010) Reivestigation of the crystal structure of the zeolite gobbinsite: A single-crystal X-ray diffraction study. Am. Mineral., 95, 481-486.
  61. Gatta G.D., Rotiroti N., Pavese A., Lotti P., Curetti N. (2010) Structural evolution of a 2M1 phengite mica up to 11 GPa: an in-situ single-crystal X-ray diffraction study. Phys. Chem. Minerals, 37, 581-591.
  62. Gatta G.D., Angel R.J., Carpenter M.A. (2010) Low-temperature behaviour of natural kalsilite with P31c symmetry: an in-situ single-crystal X-ray diffraction study. Am. Mineral., 95, 1027-1034.
  63. Miletich R., Gatta G.D., Redhammer G.J., Burchard M., Meyer H.P., Weikusat C., Rotiroti N. Glasmacher U.A., Trautmann C., Neumann R. (2010) Structure alterations in microporous (Mg,Fe)2Al4Si5O18 crystals induced by energetic heavy-ion irradiation. J. Solid State Chem., 183, 2372–2381.
  64. Comodi P., Cera F., Gatta G.D., Rotiroti N., Garofani P. (2010) The devetrification of artificial fibers: a multymethodic approach to quantify the temperature-time onset of cancerogenic crystalline phases. Annals of Occupational Hygiene, 54, 893–903.
  65. Rinaldi R., Gatta G.D., Angel R.J. (2010) Crystal chemistry and low-temperature behaviour of datolite: a single-crystal X-ray diffraction study. Am. Mineral., 95, 1413–1421.
  66. Gatta G.D., Vignola P., McIntyre G.J., Diella V. (2010) On the crystal chemistry of londonite [(Cs,K,Rb)Al4Be5B11O28]: a single-crystal neutron diffraction study at 300 and 20 K. Am. Mineral., 95, 1467–1472.
  67. Gatta G.D. (2010) Microporous materials at high pressure: Are they really soft? In: E. Boldyreva and P. Dera (eds.), High-Pressure Crystallography: From Fundamental Phenomena to Technological Applications, NATO Science for Peace and Security – Series B (Physics and Biophysics), p. 481-491, Springer Science, ISBN 978-90-481–9257-1 (doi:10.1007/978-90-481-9258-8_39).
  68. Conti C., Brambilla L., Colombo C., Dellasega D., Gatta G.D., Realini M., Zerbi G. (2010) Stability and transformation mechanism of weddellite nanocrystals studied by X-ray diffraction and infrared spectroscopy. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 12, 14560–14566.
  69. Sanchez-Valle V., Chi-Hong C., Gatta G.D. (2010) Single-crystal elastic properties of (Cs,Na)AlSi2O6•H2O pollucite: with potential use for long-term storage of Cs radioisotopes. J. Appl. Phys., 108, 093509 (1-7).
  70. Gatta G.D., Cappelletti P., Langella A. (2010) Crystal-chemistry of phillipsites from the Neapolitan Yellow Tuff. Eur. J. Mineral., 22, 779-786.
  71. Gatta G.D., McIntyre G.J., Sassi R., Rotiroti N., Pavese A. (2011) Hydrogen-bond and cation partitioning in 2M1-muscovite: A single-crystal neutron-diffraction study at 295 and 20 K. Am. Mineral., 96, 34-41.
  72. Adamo I., Gatta G.D., Rotiroti N., Diella V., Pavese A. (2011) Green andradite stones: gemmological and mineralogical characterisation. Eur. J. Mineral., 23, 91–100.
  73. Gatta G.D., Merlini M., Lee Y., Poli S. (2011) Behavior of epidote at high pressure and high temperature: a powder diffraction study up to 10 GPa and 1,200 K. . Phys. Chem. Minerals, 38, 419-428.
  74. Welch M.D., Gatta G.D., Rotiroti N. (2011) The high-pressure behavior of orthorhombic amphiboles. Am. Mineral., 96, 623-630.
  75. Gatta G.D., Vignola P., Lee Y. (2011) Stability of (Cs,K)Al4Be5B11O28 (londonite) at high pressure and high temperature: a potential neutron absorber material. Phys. Chem. Minerals, 38, 429-434.
  76. Gatta G.D. & Lotti P. (2011) On the low-temperature behavior of the zeolite gobbinsite: A single-crystal X-ray diffraction study. Micropor.  Mesopor. Mater., 143, 467–476.
  77. Gatta G.D., Merlini M., Rotiroti N., Curetti N., Pavese A. (2011) On the crystal chemistry and elastic behavior of a phlogopite 3T. Phys. Chem. Minerals, 38, 655-664.
  78. Gatta G.D., Angel R.J., Zhao J., Alvaro M., Rotiroti N., Carpenter M.A. (2011) Phase stability, elastic behavior, and pressure-induced structural evolution of kalsilite: A ceramic material and high-T/high-P mineral. Am. Mineral., 96, 1363–1372.
  79. Wells S.A., Sartbaeva A., Gatta, G.D. (2011) Flexibility windows and phase transitions of ordered and disordered ANA framework zeolites. Europhysics Letters, 94, 56001 (doi: 10.1209/0295-5075/94/56001).
  80. Gatta G.D., Alvaro M., Bromiley G. (2011) A low temperature X-ray single-crystal diffraction and polarised infra-red study of epidote. Phys. Chem. Minerals, 39, 1–15.
  81. Kragović M., Daković, Sekulić Ž., Trgo M., Ugrina M.,  Perić J., Gatta G.D. (2012) Removal of lead from aqueous solutions by using the natural and Fe(III)-modified zeolite. Appl. Surface Science, 258,  3667– 3673.
  82. Cámara F., Gatta G.D., Meven M., Pasqual D. (2012) Thermal expansion and high temperature structure evolution of zoisite by single-crystal X-ray and neutron diffraction. Phys. Chem. Minerals, 39, 27–45.
  83. Lotti P., Gatta G.D., Rotiroti N., Cámara F. (2012) High-pressure study of a natural cancrinite. Am. Mineral., 97, 872–882. 86.
  84. Gatta G.D., Merlini M., Liermann H-P., Rothkirch A., Gemmi M., Pavese A. (2012) The thermoelastic behavior of clintonite up to 10 GPa and 1,000°C. Phys. Chem. Minerals, 39, 385-397.
  85. Geiger C.A., Gatta G.D., Xue X., McIntyre G.J. (2012) A Neutron and X-Ray Diffraction and IR and 1H and 29Si NMR Spectroscopic Investigation of Armenite: Behavior of Extra Framework Ca Cations and H2O Molecules in Microporous Silicates. Z. Kristallogr., 227, 411–426.
  86. Gatta G.D., Danisi R.M., Adamo I., Meven M., Diella V. (2012) A single-crystal neutron and X-ray diffraction study of elbaite.  Phys. Chem. Minerals, 39, 577–588.
  87. Gatta G.D., McIntyre G.J., Swanson G.J., Jacobsen S.D. (2012) Minerals in cement chemistry: a single-crystal neutron diffraction and Raman spectroscopic study of thaumasite, Ca3Si(OH)6(CO3)(SO4)•12H2O. Am. Mineral., 97, 1060–1069.
  88. Gatta G.D., Lotti P., Kahlenberg, V. and Haefeker, U. (2012) The low-temperature behaviour of cancrinite: an in situ single-crystal X-ray diffraction study. Mineral. Mag., 76, 933-948.
  89. Bellatreccia F., Della Ventura G., Gatta G.D., Cestelli Guidi M., Harley S. (2012) Carbon dioxide in pollucite, a feldspathoid with the ideal composition (Cs,Na)16Al16Si32O96•nH2O. Mineral. Mag., 76, 903-911.
  90. Gatta G.D., Merlini M., Lotti P., Lausi A., Rieder M. (2012) Phase stability and thermo-elastic behavior of CsAlSiO4 (ABW): A potential nuclear waste disposal material. Micropor.  Mesopor. Mater.., 163, 147–152.
  91. Gatta G.D., Adamo I., Meven M., Lambruschi E. (2012) A single-crystal neutron and X-ray diffraction study of pezzottaite, Cs(Be2Li)Al2Si6O18. Phys. Chem. Minerals, 39, 829–840.
  92. Gatta G.D., McIntyre G.J., Bromiley G., Guastoni A., Nestola F. (2012) A single-crystal neutron diffraction study of hambergite, Be2BO3(OH,F). Am. Mineral., 97, 1891–1897.
  93. Gatta G.D., Lotti P., Nestola F., Pasqual D. (2012) On the high-pressure behavior of gobbinsite, the natural counterpart of the synthetic zeolite Na–P2. Micropor.  Mesopor. Mater., 163, 259–269.
  94. Gatta G.D., Merlini M., Valdrè G., Liermann H-P., Nénert G., Rothkirch A., Kahlenberg V., Pavese A. (2013) On the crystal structure and compressional behaviour of talc: a mineral of interest in petrology and material science. Phys. Chem. Minerals, 40, 145-156.
  95. Gatta G.D., Lotti P., Nestola F., Merlini M., Pasqual D., Lausi A. (2013) Thermo-elastic behaviour of Be2BO3OH (hambergite) up to 7 GPa and 1100 K. Phys. Chem. Minerals, 40, 401-409.
  96. Gatta G.D., Lotti P., Kahlenberg V. (2013) The low-temperature behavior of balliranoite (CAN topology): an in-situ single-crystal X-ray diffraction study. Micropor.  Mesopor. Mater., 174 , 44-53.
  97. Gatta G.D., Lotti P., Merlini M., Liermann H.-P., Fisch M. (2013) High-pressure behavior and phase stability of Al5BO9, a mullite-type ceramic material. J. Am. Ceramic Soc., 96, 2583–2592.
  98. Gatta G.D., Nénert G., Vignola P. (2013) Coexisting hydroxyl groups and H2O molecules in minerals: A single-crystal neutron diffraction study of eosphorite, MnAlPO4(OH)2•H2O. Am. Mineral., 98, 1297–1301.
  99. Gatta G.D., Vignola P., Meven M., Rinaldi R. (2013) Neutron diffraction in gemology: Single-crystal diffraction study of brazilianite, NaAl3(PO4)2(OH)4. Am. Mineral., 98, 1624–1630.
  1. Kragović M., Daković A., Markovića M., Krstić J., Gatta G.D., Rotiroti N. (2013) Characterization of lead sorption by the natural and Fe(III)-modified zeolite. Surface Science, 283, 764– 774.
  2. Rothkirch A., Gatta G.D., Meyer M., Merkel S., Merlini M., Liermann H-P. (2013) Single-crystal diffraction at the Extreme Conditions beamline P02.2: procedure for collecting and analyzing high-pressure single-crystal data. Synchrotron Rad., 20, 711 – 720 (doi:10.1107/S0909049513018621).
  3. Lotti P., Gatta G.D., Rotiroti N., Cámara F., Harlow G.E. (2014) The high-pressure behavior of balliranoite: a cancrinite group mineral. Kristallogr., 229, 63-76.
  4. Gatta G.D., Nénert G., Guastella G., Lotti P., Guastoni A., Rizzato S. (2014) A single-crystal neutron and X-ray diffraction study of a Li,Be-bearing brittle mica. Mag., 78, 55–72.
  5. Miletich R., Gatta G.D., Willi T., Mirwald P.W., Lotti P., Merlini M., Rotiroti N., Loerting T. (2014) Cordierite under hydrostatic compression: Anomalous elastic behavior as a precursor for a pressure-induced phase transition. Mineral., 99, 479-492.
  6. Gatta G.D., Bosi F., McIntyre G.J., Hålenius (2014) Static positional disorder in ulvöspinel: A single-crystal neutron diffraction study. Am. Mineral., 99, 255–260.
  7. Gatta G.D., Comboni D., Alvaro M., Lotti P., Cámara F., Domeneghetti M.C. (2014) Thermoelastic behavior and dehydration process of cancrinite. Chem. Minerals, 41, 373–386.
  8. Gatta G.D. & Lee Y. (2014) Zeolites at high pressure: A review. Mag., 78, 267-291.
  9. Gatta G.D., Lotti P., Merlini M., Caputo D., Aprea P., Lausi A., Colella C. (2014) Thermo-elastic behavior and P/T phase stability of TlAlSiO4 (ABW). Mesopor. Mater., 197, 262-267.
  10. Gatta G.D., Bosi F., McIntyre G.J., Skogby H. (2014) First accurate location of two proton sites in tourmaline: A single-crystal neutron diffraction study of oxy-dravite. Mag., 78, 681-692.
  11. Gatta G.D., Jacobsen S.D., Vignola P., McIntyre G.J., Guastella G., Abate L.F. (2014) Single-crystal neutron diffraction and Raman spectroscopic study of hydroxylherderite, CaBePO4(OH,F). Mag., 78, 723-737.
  12. Lotti P., Gatta G.D., Merlini M., Hanfland M. (2014) High-pressure behavior of davyne [CAN-topology]: An in situ single-crystal synchrotron diffraction study. Mesopor. Mater., 198, 203–214.
  13. Gatta, G.D., Lotti, P., Nénert, G., Kahlenberg, V. (2014) On the crystal structure and low-temperature behaviour of davyne: A single-crystal X-ray and neutron diffraction study. Mesopor. Mater., 185, 137-148.
  14. Gatta G.D., Morgenroth W., Dera P., Petitgirard S., Liermann H-P. (2014) Elastic behavior and pressure-induced structure evolution of topaz up to 45 GPa. Chem. Minerals, 41, 569-577.
  15. Miletich R., Scheidl K.S., Schmitt M., Moissl A.P., Pippinger T., Gatta G.D., Schuster B., Trautmann C. (2014) Static elasticity of cordierite I: Effect of heavy ion irradiation on the compressibility of hydrous cordierite. Chem. Minerals, 41, 579-591.
  16. Scheidl K.S., Gatta G.D., Pippinger T., Schuster B., Trautmann C., Miletich R. (2014) Static elasticity of cordierite II: effect of molecular CO2 channel constituents on the compressibility. Chem. Minerals, 41, 617-631.
  17. Vignola P., Gatta G.D., Hatert F., Guastoni A., Bersani D. (2014) On the crystal-chemistry of a near end-member triplite, Mn2+2(PO4)F, from Codera valley (Sondrio Province, Central Alps, Italy). Mineral., 52, 235-245.
  18. Lambruschi E., Gatta G.D., Adamo I., Bersani D., Salvioli-Mariani E., Lottici P.P. (2014) Raman and structural comparison between the new gemstone pezzottaite Cs(Be2Li)Al2Si6O18 and Cs-beryl. Raman Spectrosc., 45, 993–999.
  19. Gatta G.D., Vignola P., Meven M. (2014) On the complex H-bonding network in paravauxite, Fe2+Al2(PO4)2(OH)2·8H2O: A single-crystal neutron diffraction study. Mag., 78, 841–850.
  20. Gatta G.D., Bersani D., Lottici P.P., Tribaudino M. (2014) High-pressure Raman study of CH4 in melanophlogite (type I clathrate). Mag., 78, 1661–1669.
  21. Gatta G.D., Scheidl K.S., Pippinger T., Skála R., Lee Y., Miletich R. (2015) High-pressure behavior and crystal–fluid interaction under extreme conditions in paulingite [PAU-topology].   Mesopor. Mater., 206, 34–41.
  22. Danisi R.M., Armbruster T., Arletti R., Gatta G.D., Vezzalini G., Quartieri S., Dmitriev V. (2015) Elastic behavior and pressure-induced structural modifications of the microporous Ca(VO)Si4O104H2O dimorphs cavansite and pentagonite. Micropor. Mesopor. Mater., 204, 257–268.
  23. Gatta G.D., Lotti P., Merlini M., Liermann H-P., Lausi A., Valdrè G., Pavese A. (2015) Elastic behaviour and phase stability of pyrophyllite and talc at high pressure and temperature. Chem. Minerals, 42, 309-318.
  24. Lotti P., Gatta G.D., Merlini M., Liermann H-P. (2015) High-pressure behavior of synthetic mordenite-Na: an in situ single-crystal synchrotron X-ray diffraction study. Kristallogr., 230, 201–211.
  25. Conti C., Casati M., Colombo C., Possenti E., Realini M., Gatta G.D., Merlini M., Brambilla L., Zerbi G. (2015) Synthesis of calcium oxalate trihydrate: New data by vibrational spectroscopy and synchrotron X-ray diffraction. Acta A, 150, 721–730.
  26. Lotti P., Arletti R., Gatta G.D., Quartieri S., Vezzalini G., Merlini M., Dmitriev V., Hanfland M. (2015) Compressibility and crystal-fluid interactions in all-silica ferrierite at high pressure. Mesopor. Mater., 218, 42 – 54.
  27. Aliatis I., Lambruschi E., Mantovani L., Bersani D., Andò S., Gatta G.D., Gentile P., Salvioli-Mariani E., Prencipe M., Tribaudino M., Lottici P.P. (2015) A comparison between ab initio calculated and measured Raman spectrum of triclinic albite (NaAlSi3O8). Raman Spectrosc., 46, 501–508.
  28. Hwang H., Seoung D., Gatta G.D., Blom D.A., Vogt T., Lee Y. (2015) Topotactic and reconstructive changes at high pressures and temperatures from Cs-natrolite to Cs-hexacelsian. Mineral., 100, 1562–1567.
  29. Bromiley G.D., Gatta G.D., Stokes T. (2015) Manganese incorporation in synthetic hercynite. Mag., 79, 635-647.
  30. Gatta G.D., Cappelletti P., de’ Gennaro B., Rotiroti N., Langella A. (2015) New data on Cu-exchanged phillipsite: a multi-methodological study. Chem. Minerals, 42, 723-733.
  31. Gatta G.D., Rotiroti N., Bersani D., Bellatreccia F. Della Ventura G., Rizzato S. (2015) A multi-methodological study of the (K,Ca)-variety of the zeolite merlinoite. Mag., 79, 1755–1767.
  32. Gatta G.D., Redhammer G.J., Vignola P., Meven M., McIntyre G.J. (2015) Single-crystal neutron diffraction and Mössbauer spectroscopic study of hureaulite, (Mn,Fe)5(PO4)2(HPO4)2(H2O)4. J. Mineral., 28, 93-103.
  33. Özen S., Göncüoğlu M.C., Liguori B., de Gennaro B., Cappelletti P., Gatta G.D., Iucolano F., Colella C. (2016) A comprehensive evaluation of sedimentary zeolites from Turkey as pozzolanic addition of cement- and lime-based binders. Build. Mat., 105, 46-61.
  34. Gatta G.D. & Lotti P. (2016) Cancrinite-group minerals: Crystal-chemical description and properties under non-ambient conditions—A review. Mineral., 101, 253–265 (Invited Centennial Paper).
  35. Gatta G.D., Tabacchi G., Fois E., Lee Y. (2016) Behaviour at high pressure of Rb7NaGa8Si12O403H2O (a zeolite with EDI topology): a combined experimental–computational study. Phys. Chem. Minerals, 43, 209–216.
  36. Lotti P., Gatta G.D., Comboni D., Merlini M., Pastero L., Hanfland M. (2016) AlPO4-5 zeolite at high pressure: Crystal­fluid interaction and elastic behavior. Mesopor. Mater., 228, 158-167.
  37. Gatta G.D., Redhammer G.J., Guastoni A., Guastella G., Meven M., Pavese A. (2016) H-bonding scheme and cation partitioning in axinite: a single-crystal neutron diffraction and Mössbauer spectroscopic study. Chem. Minerals, 43, 341–352.
  38. Merlini M., Sapelli F., Fumagalli P., Gatta G.D., Lotti P., Tumiati S., Aabdellatief M., Lausi A., Plaisier J., Hanfland M., Crichton W., Chantel J., Guignard J., Meneghini C., Pavese A., Poli S. (2016) High-temperature and high-pressure behavior of carbonates in the ternary diagram CaCO3-MgCO3-FeCO3. Mineral., 101, 1423-1430.
  39. Gatta G.D., Bosi F., Fernandez-Diaz M.T., Hålenius U. (2016) H-bonding scheme in allactite: a combined single-crystal X-ray and neutron diffraction, optical absorption spectroscopy, FTIR and EPMA-WDS study. Mag., 80, 719-732.
  40. Vignola P., Gatta G.D., Rotiroti N., Gentile P., Hatert F., Baijot M., Bersani D., Risplendente A., Pavese A. (2016) Albertiniite, Fe2+(SO3)·3H2O, a new sulfite mineral species from the Monte Falò Pb-Zn mine, Coiromonte, Armeno Municipality, Verbano Cusio, Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy. Mag., 80, 985-994.
  41. D. Gatta, A. Brundu, P. Cappelletti, G. Cerri, B. de’ Gennaro, M. Farina, P. Fumagalli, L. Guaschino, P. Lotti, M. Mercurio (2016) New insights on pressure, temperature, and chemical stability of CsAlSi5O12, a potential host for nuclear waste. Phys. Chem. Minerals, 43, 639-647.
  42. Comboni D., Gatta G.D., Lotti P., Merlini M., Liermann H-P. (2017) On the P-induced behavior of the zeolite phillipsite: an in situ single-crystal synchrotron X-ray diffraction study. Chem. Minerals, 44, 1-20.
  43. Gatta G.D., McIntyre G.J., Oberti R., Hawthorne F.C. (2017) Order of [6]Ti4+ in a Ti-rich calcium amphibole from Kaersut, Greenland: a combined X-ray and neutron diffraction study. Chem. Minerals, 44, 83-94.
  44. Aliatis I., Lambruschi E., Mantovani L., Bersani D., Gatta G.D., Tribaudino M., Lottici P.P. (2017) High-pressure Raman spectroscopy on low albite. Chem. Minerals, 44, 213-220.
  45. Lotti P., Gatta G.D., Comboni D., Guastella G., Merlini M., Guastoni A., Liermann H.P. (2017) High-pressure behavior and P-induced phase transition of CaB3O4(OH)3H2O (colemanite). J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 100, 2209–2220.
  46. Merlini M., Cerantola V., Gatta G.D., Gemmi M., Hanfland M., Kupenko I., Lotti P., Müller H., Zhang L. (2017) Dolomite-IV: Candidate structure for a carbonate in the Earth’s lower mantle. Mineral., 102, 1763-1766.
  47. Altomare A., Cuocci C., Gatta G.D., Moliterni A., Rizzi R. (2017) Methods of crystallography: powder X-ray diffraction. EMU Notes in Mineralogy, Vol. 19, Chapter 2, 79–138 (DOI: 10.1180/EMU-notes.19.3).
  48. Gatta G.D., Lotti P., Comboni D., Merlini M., Vignola P., Liermann H-P (2017) High-pressure behavior of (Cs,K)Al4Be5B11O28 (londonite): A single-crystal synchrotron diffraction study up to 26 GPa. Am. Ceram. Soc., 100, 4893–4901.
  49. Gori C., Tribaudino M., Mantovani L., Gatta G.D., Delmonte D., Gilioli E., Mezzadri F., Calestani G. (2017) Synthesis and crystal structure of C2/c Ca(Co,Mg)Si2O6 pyroxenes: effect of the cationic substitution on the cell volume. Mag., 81, 1129-1139.
  50. Tribaudino M., Aliatis I., Bersani D., Gatta G.D., Lambruschi E., Mantovani L., Redhammer G., Lottici P.P. (2017) High-pressure Raman spectroscopy of Ca(Mg,Co)Si2O6 and Ca(Mg,Co)Ge2O6 J. Raman Spectrosc., 48, 1443–1448.
  51. Gatta G.D., Lotti P., Tabacchi G. (2017) The effect of pressure on open-framework silicates: elastic behaviour and crystal–fluid interaction. Chem. Minerals (in press, DOI: 10.1007/s00269-017-0916-z).
  52. Comboni D., Lotti P., Gatta G.D., Merlini M., Liermann H-P., Frost D.J. (2017) Pargasite at high pressure and temperature. Chem. Minerals (in press, DOI: 10.1007/s00269-017-0915-0).
  53. Tribaudino M., Aliatis I., Bersani D., Gatta G.D., Lambruschi E., Mantovani L., Redhammer G., Lottici P.P. (2017) High-pressure Raman spectroscopy of Ca(Mg,Co)Si2O6 and Ca(Mg,Co)Ge2O6 J. Raman Spectrosc., 48, 1443–1448.
  54. Lotti P., Gatta G.D., Demitri N., Guastella G., Rizzato S., Ortenzi M.A., Magrini F., Comboni D., Guastoni A., Fernandez-Diaz M.T. (2017) Crystal-chemistry and temperature behavior of the natural hydrous borate colemanite, a mineral commodity of boron. Chem. Minerals (in press, DOI: 10.1007/s00269-017-0929-7).
  55. Bersani D., Aliatis I., Tribaudino M., Mantovani L., Benisek A., Carpenter M.A., Gatta G.D., Lottici P.P. (2018) Plagioclase composition by Raman spectroscopy. Raman Spectrosc. (in press, DOI: 10.1002/jrs.5340).
  56. Kong M., Lee Yo., Gatta G.D., Lee Y. (2018) Comparative compressional behavior of chabazite with Li+, Na+, Ag+, K+, Rb+, and Cs+ as extra-framework cations. Mineral., 103, 207–215.

 

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  Gatta G.D. (2007) Hawthorne, F.C.: Landmark Papers: Structure Topology. Mineralogical Society of Great Britain & Ireland, 2006. ISBN-13: 978-0-903056-23-6, ISBN-10: 0-903056-23-2. In Mineral. Mag., 71, 745-746.

Gatta G.D. (Guest Editor). “Special issue in honour of Mark D. Welch, Principal Editor of Mineralogical Magazine from 2007 to 2011”. Mineral. Mag., 76, 823–825.