Results of 25-Year Studies of Uranium Compounds at the Department of Crystallography of St. Petersburg State University

Abstract

The study of uranium-bearing natural and synthetic compounds is one of the main scientific areas that have been implemented at the Department of Crystallography of St. Petersburg State University for a quarter of a century. With the participation of the department’s staff, three new uranium minerals were discovered, the structures of 15 known mineral species were determined and refined, and more than 370 new synthetic uranium compounds were obtained and characterized. Based on the research results, more than 200 scientific papers were published, including three monographs and more than 190 scientific papers in leading world journals in mineralogical, crystallographic, and chemical research areas. This review briefly highlights the most interesting, in the authors’ opinion, results of crystal-chemical studies of uranium compounds obtained over 25 years of activity by the staff of the Department of Crystallography of St. Petersburg State University.