(1953 - )
Autor principal de la vacuna de antígeno sintético contra el Haemöphilus influenzae tipo b (Hib), causante de la mitad de las infecciones bacterianas que padecen los niños menores de cinco años.
Natural and Exact Sciences
2000 | Structural properties of zeolitic materials: studies using computational simulation methods
Main author: Del (1) Angel Rabdel Ruíz Salvador, Ariel Gómez González, Anabel Lam Barandela.
Coauthors: From (1) Aramis Rivera Denis y Gerardo Rodríguez Fuentes; from (2) Ricardo Grau Crespo and Alejandro González Peral; from (3) José Andrés de la Cruz Alcaz; from (4) Luis Montero Cabrera
Summary:

The study of zeolites constitutes one of the most interesting branches in the scientific community, mainly moved by these materials' introduction in industry. Nowadays, there are experimental methods to carry out structural studies in solids; nevertheless, some aspects that require more precision are out of their reach. The simulation in computers represents an economic alternative that jointly with experimental techniques allow giving solution to very complex problems to atomic scale. In this sense, this result is up to date, for Cuba and for other countries.

In this work, there are introduced new methodologies that allow studying structural anomalies in zeolites, related to link angles and symmetry groups, the distribution of acid places isolated in the crystalline structure, and there are also applied novel methodologies in the research of compensation cations' distribution and in the research of acid or basic strength of these catalysts' active places. These studies demonstrate the possibilities of computational simulation in zeolites. The result also gathers studies aimed at determining molecular structural conformation with pharmaceutical interest.

The authors have presented their results in scientific events, several of them of international character. Regarding the publication of results, there have been published 9 articles linked directly to the result published in prestigious magazines of international circulation.

It was chosen the best result in sciences and humanities in the University of Havana (UH) in 1999.

Its great knowledge contribution and impact at scientific and social level are undeniable.