Surface Chemistry of Minerals
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 (20 July 2024) | Viewed by 4189
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mineral surface chemistry; reaction kinetics; aqueous geochemistry; mineralogy; soil quality and fertility; X-ray and particle beam techniques
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Mineral surface reactivity controls a range of natural and engineered processes, including mineral weathering, contaminants mobilization, and groundwater chemistry. This surface reactivity is important in a variety of scenarios, such as nuclear energy/storage (e.g., material performance under extreme conditions), environmental (bioavailability, contaminant, and nutrient), and for nuclear forensic purposes (corrosion). To understand and predict the material behavior, it is important to understand the surface chemistry of these materials.
For this Special Issue, we invite studies that investigate mineral surface chemistry on a variety of length scales using a range of theoretical and experimental methods. We particularly encourage studies that use a combination of atomistic and molecular scale techniques that employ, among others, X-ray and/or neutron particle analysis tools, studying both natural and/or technical systems.
Dr. Arjen Van Veelen
Dr. Eleanor Spielman-Sun
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- surface chemistry
- applied geochemistry
- soil science
- mineral reaction kinetics
- adsorption/desorption
- contaminant mobilization
- mineral surface reactivity
- surface characterization
- synchrotron/neutron
- X-rays
- MD/DFT
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