Clay Minerals, Biomaterials and Engineered Mineral Materials in Water and Wastewater Treatment
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Mineralogy and Biogeochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 24 April 2026 | Viewed by 14
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental analytical chemistry; development of sorbents for water treatment and solid phase extraction; flow-based analytical methods; monolithic materials; liquid chromatography
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Interests: water and wastewater treatment; water quality monitoring; environmental remediation; water security; water and wastewater valorization and beneficiation; recovery of minerals from water and wastewater
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The increasing complexity of industrial, agricultural, and municipal effluents has intensified the global demand for efficient, sustainable, and cost-effective water and wastewater treatment technologies that can eliminate contamination by toxic metals, pesticides, emerging pollutants, biological toxins, and fluorocarbons (forever chemicals), among others. Mineral-based and bio-derived materials have emerged as promising remediation materials, offering high surface reactivity, ion-exchange capacity, mechanical stability, and environmental compatibility. Clay minerals, biomaterials, and engineered mineral composites exhibit unique structural and surface properties that can be tailored for adsorption, catalysis, and pollutant degradation, contributing to cleaner and safer water systems.
This Special Issue aims to gather original research articles, short communications, and reviews focusing on the development, characterization, and application of such materials for water purification. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Natural and modified clays for pollutants removal;
- Mineral–biomaterial and mineral–polymer composites;
- Adsorption, catalysis, and photocatalytic mechanisms;
- Regeneration, reusability, and process optimization;
- Pilot-scale and real-world wastewater treatment applications.
We warmly invite researchers from academia and industry to contribute their recent findings and insights to this Special Issue. By combining expertise in mineralogy, materials science, and environmental engineering, we aim to advance innovative approaches toward sustainable water treatment and pollution control.
We look forward to your valuable contributions.
Dr. Jorge César Masini
Prof. Dr. Vhahangwele Masindi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable water technologies
- adsorption of pollutants
- bio-based adsorbents
- sustainable supported catalysts
- advanced oxidation processes
- engineered and emerging mineral materials
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