Measuring and Predicting Minerals Growth, Dissolution, and Alteration Kinetics
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Crystallography and Physical Chemistry of Minerals & Nanominerals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2019) | Viewed by 4162
Special Issue Editor
Interests: solid-fluid reactions;prediction of reaction rates and system behavior;reactions kinetics;surface imaging;Vertical Scanning Interferometry (VSI);Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations;defining the mineral–fluid interface;nanotechnology;microbiological influence on mineral and corrosion reactions;nuclear waste management;environmental remediation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
All minerals and synthetic analogues, including new crystalline materials, grow, dissolve, and change their properties during alteration processes. In one way or another, decision makers in many different fields of all modern societies rely on accurate assessments of the rates of such processes as a function of environmental conditions. In a diverse range of important activities that include predictions of global climate change, drug development, steel corrosion, and nuclear waste management, crystal growth and dissolution kinetics will always be at the center of attention. Researchers in academic institutions, national research laboratories, and private industry are thus involved in precise quantification of the rates of mineral-fluid reactions, ultimately aimed at improving their fundamental understanding of underlying reaction kinetics. Even more challenging is the increasing need to correctly predict reaction rates.
This special volume on growth, dissolution and alteration kinetics of crystalline systems is devoted to providing a forum for the interested researcher to discuss areas that have seen significant advance, as well as those that are the center of controversy. Our aim is to capture research highlights, including a much needed, in-depth discussion of key theoretical concepts. Of special interest are contributions that address some of the most challenging topics, i.e., how do we up-scale our experimental and theoretical research results from the nano- to the macroscale?
Prof. Dr. Andreas Luttge
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- minerals
- synthetic
- reaction kinetics
- dissolution
- growth
- alteration
- rates
- rate spectra
- scale
- up-scaling
