Abstract: The invention relates to a fluorination process consisting in bringing an inorganic compound M into contact with an atmosphere comprising difluorine gas, the inorganic compound M being a garnet based on the elements Li, La, Zr, A and O and for which the relative composition of the Li, La, Zr and A cations corresponds to the formula (I): LixLa3ZrzAw.

Abstract: The invention relates to an NVPF-based composition and the use thereof in the field of batteries as an electrochemically active material. The invention also relates to a conductive composition comprising said composition as well as to a method for obtaining said composition.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing an ammonium vanadium phosphate of formula (NH4)(VO2)(HPO4). It also relates to a process for preparing a vanadium orthophosphate VPO4.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to cerium based particles having a rough surface and their use as a component of a polishing composition, especially for chemical mechanical polishing. The cerium based particles have substantially the shape of polyhedrons which have one or more faces with protrusions thereon, said protrusions being integrally formed with said cerium based particles. The present disclosure also relates to the method of preparation of the cerium based particles.

Abstract: The invention relates to cerium based core-shell particles having a core of cerium oxide optionally doped with at least one metal (M) and a shell consisting of a plurality of nanoparticles of cerium oxide optionally doped with at least one metal (M?), which can be the same or different from metal (M), formed on the surface of the core particle. The invention also relates to dispersions thereof in a liquid medium, to a process for producing the same and to the use of these particles and dispersions in polishing applications such as chemical mechanical polishing.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of preparation of a garnet-type inorganic material. It also relates to the garnet-type inorganic material itself. The process comprises the following steps: (1) bringing an aqueous solution S comprising (i) a salt of zirconium, (ii) a salt of lanthanum and (iii) a salt of the element A or a precursor of an oxide of element A into contact with an aqueous solution of a basic compound, as a result of which a precipitate suspended in the reaction medium is obtained; (2) stirring the reaction medium obtained at the end of step (1) for at least 30 min; (3) bringing the precipitate obtained at the end of step (2) into contact with an additive selected in the group consisting of: anionic surfactants; nonionic surfactants; polyethylene glycols; carboxylic acids and their salts; and surfactants of the carboxymethylated fatty alcohol ethoxylate type; (4) calcining in air the precipitate recovered at the end of the previous step at a temperature which is at least 400° C.

Abstract: A modified phosphor is described comprising phosphor particles and at least one amphiphilic agent. Compositions comprising the modified phosphor and at least one polymer are also described.

Abstract: The silicate of magnesium and of barium, strontium or calcium of the invention is characterized in that it is in the form of a suspension of solid crystallized particles in a liquid phase, said particles having a mean size between 0.1 ?m and 1 ?m. It is prepared by spray-drying a liquid mixture comprising compounds of magnesium, of silicium and of at least one first element chosen from barium, strontium and calcium, by submitting the dried mixture to a first calcination in air and to a second calcination in a reducing atmosphere and by wet milling the calcined mixture.

Abstract: The invention relates to an NVPF-based composition and the use thereof in the field of batteries as an electrochemically active material. The invention also relates to a conductive composition comprising said composition as well as to a method for obtaining said composition.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing an ammonium vanadium phosphate of formula (NH4)(VO2)(HPO4). It also relates to a process for preparing a vanadium orthophosphate VPO4.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the new process of preparation of a Li-rich layered oxide based on Mn and optionally on Ni and/or Co in which F is incorporated within the crystal of the oxide (or “fluorinated oxide”). It also relates to the new fluorinated oxide its use as a component in a cathode of a battery.

Abstract: The compound according to the invention is a compound of formula (1) Ax W1-yMOyO3, wherein A is chosen from the group comprising the Li, Na, NH4, K and H cations, and it is characterized in that x and y verify the relationships 0?x?1 and 0?y?0.5, and in that it has a crystalline structure of the hexagonal type with a base of WO6 octahedra, said structure having tunnels delimited by 6, 4 and 3 of said octahedra and oriented along the axis c.

Abstract: Disclosed is a composition comprising at least a cerium and zirconium based mixed oxide comprising zirconium, cerium, lanthanum and optionally at least one rare earth other than cerium and lanthanum; said mixed oxide exhibiting a high thermal resistance and are in particular capable of maintaining a large specific surface area even in a high temperature environment. Also disclosed is a process for the synthesis of such compositions.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cosmetic photoprotection composition comprising particles of cerium oxide functionalised with polyacrylic acid, in combination with particles of titanium oxide or zinc oxide.

Abstract: Cerium oxide particles having a modified surface, their manufacture and their uses in polymeric compositions and articles.

Abstract: Phosphate particulates of at least one rare-earth metal (Ln), with Ln being at least one rare-earth metal selected from among cerium and terbium and optionally lanthanum are in the form of a suspension in a liquid phase of primary isotropic monocrystalline monazite particles having an average size of at least 25 nm and agglomerated into secondary particles having an average size of at most 400 nm; useful luminophores are produced from such phosphate particulates.

Abstract: The phosphor of the invention is based on a lanthunum cerium terbium phosphate, and it is characterized in that the phosphate consists of particles having a mean size of at most 4 ?m, in that it has a lithium content of at most 30 ppm, a boton content of at most 30 ppm and in that it has a variation of brightness between the brightness measured on the phosphor at 25° C. and that measured on the same phosphor at 200° C. of at most 4%.

Abstract: A modified phosphor is described comprising phosphor particles and at least one amphiphilic agent. Compositions comprising the modified phosphor and at least one polymer are also described.

Abstract: The silicate of magnesium and of barium, strontium or calcium of the invention is characterized in that it is in the form of a suspension of solid crystallized particles in a liquid phase, said particles having a mean size between 0.1 ?m and 1 ?m. It is prepared by spray-drying a liquid mixture comprising compounds of magnesium, of silicium and of at least one first element chosen from barium, strontium and calcium, by submitting the dried mixture to a first calcination in air and to a second calcination in a reducing atmosphere and by wet milling the calcined mixture.

Abstract: A novel type of green luminophore containing mixed rare-earth phosphates is produced from precursor particles having a mean diameter ranging from 1.5 to 15 microns; such particles have an inorganic core and a shell of a mixed lanthanum and/or cerium phosphate, optionally doped with terbium, evenly covering the inorganic core with a thickness greater than or equal to 300 nm.