Advancement of Functionalized Mineral Materials and Rock
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Construction and Building Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 March 2023) | Viewed by 37488
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Interests: rock mass characterization and classification; geomechanical laboratory testing; environmental geotechnics; coupled hydro-thermomechanical FE modeling of geomaterials; nanomaterials
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Interests: geohazards (landslides and earthquakes); geomonitoring with wireless sensor networks (WSN); virtual outcrop models and joint analysis with LiDAR and SFM; geodata science and data mining; clay mineralogy and geotechnical properties of soils
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Dear Colleagues,
Mineral materials have always been the most widely used materials in human society, and they have an important role in the military, aerospace, electronics, and environmental protection. The development of mineral materials has always followed a theme of functionalization. Functionalization is inevitably the future trend of mineral materials and is also the goal of mineral material processing technology. The key to the functionalization of mineral materials is to meet the needs of applications and to develop new markets or applications according to the requirements of new industrial development and social progress. Therefore, it is necessary to actively develop and use functional mineral materials for energy saving and fire prevention, filling and coating, environmental protection, energy storage, heat preservation, etc.
The scope of this Special Issue is to collect original fundamental and applied research from experimental, theoretical, computational, and case studies that contribute to the understanding of advances in functionalized mineral materials and rocks.
It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript to this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Youliang Chen
Prof. Dr. Tomas Manuel Fernandez-Steeger
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- functionalized mineral materials
- rock
- fireproof material
- environmental protection
- energy storage
- life cycle assessment
- applications
- multifunctional materials
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