Nanotechnology Research and Practice, 2014, Vol.(1), № 1 30 Copyright © 2014 by Academic Publishing House Researcher Published in the Russian Federation Nanotechnology Research and Practice Has been issued since 2014. ISSN: 2312-7856 Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 30-42, 2014 DOI: 10.13187/issn.2312-7856 www.ejournal13.com UDC 541.64:574.24:553.08 The Structure and Composition of Carbonaceous Fullerene Containing Mineral Shungite and Microporous Crystalline Aluminosilicate Mineral Zeolite 1 Ignat Ignatov 2 Oleg Mosin 1 T h e Scientific Research Center of Medical Biophysics (SRC MB), Bulgaria Professor, D. Sc., director of SRC MB. 1111, Sofia, N. Kopernik street, 32 E-mail: mbioph@dir.bg 2 Moscow State University of Applied Biotechnology, Russian Federation Senior research Fellow of Biotechnology Department, Ph. D. (Chemistry) 103316, Moscow, Talalihina ulitza, 33 E-mail: mosin-oleg@yandex.ru Abstract. We studied the composition and structural properties of amorphous, uncrystallized, fullerene analogous carbon containing natural mineral shungite from Zazhoginskoe deposit in Karelia (Russian Federation) and microporous crystalline aluminosilicate mineral zeolite (Most, Bulgaria). There are submitted data about the nanostructure, obtained with using of transmission electron microscopy (TEM-method), IR-spectroscopy (NES and DNES-method), as well as composition and physical chemical properties of these minerals. The average energy (∆EH... O) of hydrogen Н…O-bonds among individual molecules H2O after treatment of shungite and zeolite with water is measured at –0,1137 eV for shungite and -0,1174 eV for zeolite. The calculation of ∆EH... O for shungite with using DNES method compiles 0,0025±0,0011 eV and for zeolite - 1,2±0,0011 eV. This result suggests the restructuring of ∆EH...O values among H2O molecules with a statistically reliable increase of local maximums in DNES-spectra. Also are demonstrated the prospects of using shungite, possessing high absorption, catalytic and bactericidal activity, as an adsorbent in water-treatment, water purification, and other industries. Keywords: shungite, zeolite, nanostructure, fullerens, water treatment, water putrification Introduction. Shungite and zeolite – the minerals refer to new generation of natural mineral sorbents (NMS). Shungite is an intermediate form between the amorphous carbon and the graphite crystal containing carbon (30 %), silica (45 %), and silicate mica (about 20 %) [1]. Schungite carbon is a fossilized organic material of sea bottom Precambrian sediments of high level of carbonization containing the fullerene-like regular structures. Shungite got its name after the village of Shunga in Karelia (Russian Federation), located on the shore of Onezhskoe Lake, where is located the only one mineral Zazhoginsky deposit of shungites on the territoty of the Russian Federation. The total shungite researves of Zazhoginsky deposit amount to approximately 35 million tons of shungite. The plant production capacity for the mining and processing of shungite makes up 200 thousand tons of shungite per year.