Eremets went on to work as a researcher in the High Pressure Physics Institute of the Academy of Sciences in
Troitsk (Moscow region), eventually rising to the position of director of the High-Pressure Physics Department. After 1991, Eremets took on positions in several high pressure laboratories around the world, including the
University of Paris VI in France, the
National Institute for Materials Science in
Tokyo and
Osaka University in Japan, the Geophysical Laboratory at the
Carnegie Institution for Science in the United States, and
Clarendon Laboratory at the
University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. In 2001, Eremets joined the
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in
Mainz, Germany, as a staff member and leader of the research group "High-pressure chemistry and physics". Eremets was working on high temperature superconductivity in
metallic hydrogen and hydrogen-rich compounds. Additionally he was interested in polymeric
nitrogen, the synthesis of novel high energy density materials, the stability of diamonds, extending the present high static pressure limits over 500 GPa and the synthesis of molecules at pressure and temperature conditions occurring in the
Earth mantle. The core facility of the Mikhail Eremets research is a special
diamond anvil cell, which can generate extreme pressures between the two diamonds anvils. This has already led to records of static pressure of 440 GPa, which corresponds to 4.4 million atmospheres and exceeds the pressure inside the Earth (360 GPa). The device can be complemented by a laser heating system, a
cryostat, magnets and X-ray sources. In a Nature paper published in summer 2015 Eremets describes how
hydrogen sulfide conducts electricity without resistance at minus 70 degrees Celsius and at a pressure of 1.5 million bar. Thus, the 66-year-old researcher established with his team a temperature record for the superconductivity. In their latest experiments, Eremets and his collaborators have found the superconducting temperature of lanthanum hydride to be 250 K, being closer to room temperature by additional 47 K. == Death ==