[1] World Oil Outlook 2040 Executive Summary, Nov 2019; Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, 2019.
[2] American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Energy Minerals Division, (2019). Unconventional energy resources: 2017 review. Natural Resources Research, 28, pp. 1661-1751.
[3] LIU, Z., WANG, H., Blackbourn, G., MA, F., HE, Z., WEN, Z., & WU, Z. (2019). Heavy oils and oil sands: global distribution and resource assessment. Acta Geologica Sinica‐English Edition, 93(1), pp. 199-212.
[4] Alawad, I., & Al Zubaidi, I. (2019). Advances in Upgrading Process of Petroleum Residue: A Review. European Journal of Engineering Research and Science, 4(6), pp. 104-110.
[5] Li, C., Huang, W., Zhou, C., & Chen, Y. (2019). Advances on the transition-metal based catalysts for aquathermolysis upgrading of heavy crude oil. Fuel, 257, 115779.
[6] Purón, H., Pinilla, J. L., Berrueco, C., Montoya De La Fuente, J. A., & Millan, M. (2013). Hydrocracking of Maya vacuum residue with NiMo catalysts supported on mesoporous alumina and silica–alumina. Energy & fuels, 27(7), pp. 3952-3960.
[7] Badoga, S., Ganesan, A., Dalai, A. K., & Chand, S. (2017). Effect of synthesis technique on the activity of CoNiMo tri-metallic catalyst for hydrotreating of heavy gas oil. Catalysis Today, 291, pp. 160-171.
[8] Purón, H., Pinilla, J. L., Suelves, I., & Millan, M. (2015). Acid treated carbon nanofibers as catalytic support for heavy oil hydroprocessing. Catalysis Today, 249, pp. 79-85.
[9] Kondoh, H., Tanaka, K., Nakasaka, Y., Tago, T., & Masuda, T. (2016). Catalytic cracking of heavy oil over TiO2–ZrO2 catalysts under superheated steam conditions. Fuel, 167, pp. 288-294.
[10] Griffin, S. L., & Champness, N. R. (2020). A periodic table of metal-organic frameworks. Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 414, 213295.
[11] Liao, P. Q., He, C. T., Zhou, D. D., Zhang, J. P., & Chen, X. M. (2016). Porous metal azolate frameworks. The Chemistry of Metal–Organic Frameworks: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications, 1, pp. 309-343.
[12] Zanon, A., & Verpoort, F. (2017). Metals@ ZIFs: Catalytic applications and size selective catalysis. Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 353, pp. 201-222.
[13] Liu, J., Chen, L., Cui, H., Zhang, J., Zhang, L., & Su, C. Y. (2014). Applications of metal–organic frameworks in heterogeneous supramolecular catalysis. Chemical Society Reviews, 43(16), pp. 6011-6061.
[14] Zhang, C., Lively, R. P., Zhang, K., Johnson, J. R., Karvan, O., & Koros, W. J. (2012). Unexpected molecular sieving properties of zeolitic imidazolate framework-8. The journal of physical chemistry letters, 3(16), pp. 2130-2134.
[15] He, C. T., Jiang, L., Ye, Z. M., Krishna, R., Zhong, Z. S., Liao, P. Q., ... & Chen, X. M. (2015). Exceptional hydrophobicity of a large-pore metal–organic zeolite. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137(22), pp. 7217-7223.
[16] Bhadra, B. N., Seo, P. W., Khan, N. A., & Jhung, S. H. (2016). Hydrophobic cobalt-ethylimidazolate frameworks: phase-pure syntheses and possible application in cleaning of contaminated water. Inorganic chemistry, 55(21), pp. 11362-11371.
[17] Kendell, S., & Brown, T. (2010). Detailed product and kinetic analysis for the low-pressure selective oxidation of isobutane over phosphomolybdic acid. Reaction Kinetics, Mechanisms and Catalysis, 99(2), pp. 251-268.
[18] Xing, J. C., Zhu, Y. L., & Jiao, Q. J. (2014). Rapid synthesis of water-soluble NiCl2 nanorods via recrystallization for super capacitors applications. Journal of New Materials for Electrochemical Systems, 17(4), pp. 209-211.
[19] Kürkçüoğlu, G. S., Kiraz, F. Ç., & Sayın, E. (2015). Vibrational spectra, powder X-ray diffractions and physical properties of cyanide complexes with 1-ethylimidazole.Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 149, pp. 8-16.
[20] Kumari, G., Jayaramulu, K., Maji, T. K., & Narayana, C. (2013). Temperature induced structural transformations and gas adsorption in the zeolitic imidazolate framework ZIF-8: A Raman study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 117(43), pp. 11006-11012.
[21] Freire, A. I., & Alves, W. A. (2012). Using vibrational and electronic spectroscopies to investigate different complexes in the formamide/nickel chloride system. Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 89, pp. 259-263.
[22] Anand, S., Sundararajan, R. S., Ramachandraraja, C., Ramalingam, S., & Durga, R. (2015). Molecular vibrational investigation [FT-IR, FT-Raman, UV–Visible and NMR] on Bis (thiourea) Nickel chloride using HF and DFT calculations. Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 138, pp. 203-215.
[23] Thommes, M., Kaneko, K., Neimark, A. V., Olivier, J. P., Rodriguez-Reinoso, F., Rouquerol, J., & Sing, K. S. (2015). Physisorption of gases, with special reference to the evaluation of surface area and pore size distribution (IUPAC Technical Report). Pure and Applied Chemistry, 87(9-10), pp.1051-1069.
[24] Wu, C. S., Xiong, Z. H., Li, C., & Zhang, J. M. (2015). Zeolitic imidazolate metal organic framework ZIF-8 with ultra-high adsorption capacity bound tetracycline in aqueous solution. RSC advances, 5(100), pp. 82127-82137.
[25] Jian, M., Liu, B., Zhang, G., Liu, R., & Zhang, X. (2015). Adsorptive removal of arsenic from aqueous solution by zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) nanoparticles. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 465, pp. 67-76.
[26] Yu, W., Salciccioli, M., Xiong, K., Barteau, M. A., Vlachos, D. G., & Chen, J. G. (2014). Theoretical and experimental studies of C–C versus C–O bond scission of ethylene glycol reaction pathways via metal-modified molybdenum carbides. ACS Catalysis, 4(5), pp. 1409-1418.
[27] Ang, T., Tian, X., Yang, Y., Li, Y. W., Wang, J., Beller, M., & Jiao, H. (2016). Structures of seven molybdenum surfaces and their coverage dependent hydrogen adsorption. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 18(8), pp. 6005-6012.
[28] Badoga, S., Ganesan, A., Dalai, A. K., & Chand, S. (2017). Effect of synthesis technique on the activity of CoNiMo tri-metallic catalyst for hydrotreating of heavy gas oil. Catalysis Today, 291, pp. 160-171.
[29] Celis-Cornejo, C. M., Pérez-Martínez, D. J., Orrego-Ruiz, J. A., & Baldovino-Medrano, V. G. (2018). Identification of Refractory Weakly Basic Nitrogen Compounds in a Deeply Hydrotreated Vacuum Gas Oil and Assessment of the Effect of Some Representative Species over the Performance of a Ni–MoS2/Y-Zeolite–Alumina Catalyst in Phenanthrene Hydrocracking. Energy & Fuels, 32(8), pp. 8715-8726.
[30] Wei, B. M., Zhang, Z. Y., & Dai, Z. Q. (2010). Friedel-Crafts acylation of anisole catalyzed by green, reusable hydroxyapatite-zinc bromide catalyst. In Advanced Materials Research (Vol. 113, pp. 18-21). Trans Tech Publications Ltd.
[31] Aso, K., Kitaura, H., Hayashi, A., & Tatsumisago, M. (2011). Synthesis of nanosized nickel sulfide in high-boiling solvent for all-solid-state lithium secondary batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 21(9), pp. 2987-2990.
[32] Zhang, Y. H., Guo, L., He, L., Liu, K., Chen, C., Zhang, Q., & Wu, Z. (2007). Controlled synthesis of high-quality nickel sulfide chain-like tubes and echinus-like nanostructures by a solution chemical route. Nanotechnology, 18(48), 485609.
[33] Sosnin, G. A., Yazykov, N. A., Yeletsky, P. M., Zaikina, O. O., & Yakovlev, V. A. (2020). Molybdenum recovery from spent Mo-based dispersed catalyst accumulated in heavy oil steam cracking coke. Fuel Processing Technology, 208, 106520.