The study reports petrography, mineralogy and carbonate geochemistry stable isotopy of various types ocelli (silicate-carbonate globules) observed in the lamprophyres from Chadobets Uplift, southwestern Siberian craton. are related to REE-bearing Chuktukon carbonatites. On basis their morphology, relation with surrounding groundmass, we distinguish three ocelli: carbonate-silicate, containing c...

A novel activated carbo-aluminosilicate material was prepared from oil shale by chemical activation. The chemicals used in the activation process were 95 wt% sulfuric and 5 wt% nitric acids. The produced material combines the sorption properties and the mechanical strength of both activated carbon and zeolite. An X-ray diffraction analysis shows the formation of zeolite Y, Na-X, and A-types, so...

The crystallizatio n of mic roporous material SAPO-37 was studied under hydrothermal synthesis (HTS) and dry gel conversion (DGC) conditions. The evolution of the intermediate phases as a function of crystallization time was followed by several techniques including PXRD , SEM, AFM, and solid-state NMR. For DGC, SAPO-37 crystallizes from a semi-crysta lline layered precursor containing large por...

The acid-base properties of zeolites with group 5 transition metal framework sites are investigated, and a first step into the understanding of their acid/base and redox properties is undertaken using DFT reactivity descriptors. It is evidenced, using sodalite as model system, that zeolites with vanadium framework sites are more nucleophilic than zeolites with niobium and tantalum framework sit...

The search for high-temperature superconductors has been focused on compounds containing a large fraction of hydrogen, such as SiH4(H2)2, CaH6 and KH6. Through a systematic investigation of yttrium hydrides at different hydrogen contents using an structure prediction method based on the particle swarm optimization algorithm, we have predicted two new yttrium hydrides (YH4 andYH6), which are sta...

One of the research projects is concerned with the four-membered saturated inorganic ring system called cylcodiphosphazanes, which essen ally act as monoor bidentate ligands toward transi on metals. Deriva ves of cyclodiphosphazanes containing oxygen, sulphur, phosphorous or nitrogendonor-func onali es have shown versa le coordina on behaviour, resul ng in simple mononuclear to tri-, tetraor po...

Motivated by recent discovery of yttrium-based high-temperature ternary superconducting hydrides (e.g., CaYH$_{12}$, LaYH$_{12}$, and ScYH$_{6}$), we have employed evolutionary algorithm first-principles calculations to comprehensively examine the structural stability superconductivity YMgH$_{x}$ system at high pressure. The hydrogen content $x$ pressure are both important factors in these cand...