Minerals | Editor’s Choice Articles in 2021 in the Section “Clays and Engineered Mineral Materials”

Minerals (ISSN: 2075-163X) has launched the Section “Clays and Engineered Mineral Materials” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/minerals/sections/Clays_Engineered_Mineral_Materials). This Section covers various aspects of the mineralogy, geochemistry, and genesis of natural clay materials and other associated industrial minerals, with an additional interest in experimental and theoretical research on the structure, properties, and applications of broadly described natural and engineered layered and nanoporous minerals, including clays, layered double hydroxides (LDHs), zeolites, cementitious phases, and other related mineral materials. The Section focuses on linking together their detailed characterization using various diffraction, scattering, and spectroscopic techniques (X-ray, neutron, NMR, IR, Raman, AFM, etc.), computational multiscale modeling of their properties, and their diverse applications in geological and technological settings, such as mineral weathering, geological disposal of chemical and radioactive wastes, geological carbon sequestration, exploration of conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon resources, catalysis, construction, health care products, etc.

We are pleased to present the 2021 Editor’s Choice Articles, a carefully curated list of high-quality articles from “Clays and Engineered Mineral Materials”:

• “Fabrication of Adsorbed Fe(III) and Structurally Doped Fe(III) in Montmorillonite/TiO₂ Composite for Photocatalytic Degradation of Phenol”
  by Li Zhang et al.
  Minerals 2021, 11(12), 1381; https://doi.org/10.3390/min11121381
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/11/12/1381

• “Contamination Alters the Physicochemical and Textural Characteristics of Clays in the Sediments of the Peri Urban Reconquista River, Affecting the Associated Indigenous Microorganisms”
  by Ana E. Tufo et al.
  Minerals 2021, 11(3), 242; https://doi.org/10.3390/min11030242
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/11/3/242

• “Freeze–Thaw Damage Model of Polypropylene Fiber Reinforced Cement Stabilized Waste Construction Slurry under Uniaxial Action”
  by Ping Jiang et al.
  Minerals 2021, 11(7), 743; https://doi.org/10.3390/min11070743
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/11/7/743

• “Strength Characteristics of Clay–Rubber Waste Mixtures in Low-Frequency Cyclic Triaxial Tests”
  by Małgorzata Jastrzębska et al.
  Minerals 2021, 11(3), 315; https://doi.org/10.3390/min11030315
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/11/3/315

• “The Binding of Phosphorus Species at Goethite: A Joint Experimental and Theoretical Study”
  by Prasanth B. Ganta et al.
  Minerals 2021, 11(3), 323; https://doi.org/10.3390/min11030323
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/11/3/323

• “Adsorption of Pharmaceuticals onto Smectite Clay Minerals: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study”
  by Gwenaëlle Corbin et al.
  Minerals 2021, 11(1), 62; https://doi.org/10.3390/min11010062
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/11/1/62

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the research groups that submitted to Minerals. We would appreciate it if you would circulate this document among your colleagues and network.

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