Surface and Interface 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 (25 July 2025) | Viewed by 760
Special Issue Editor
Interests: applied surface chemistry to mineral and element separation processes
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Minerals have long been a crucial source of valuable materials essential to the advancement of science and technology throughout human history. Today, they are not simply viewed as basic sources of elements; rather, they offer a wide range of applications and opportunities aimed at addressing quite complex challenges such as climate change or the treatment of waste products with challenging chemical compositions. This broad spectrum of uses demands a more precise interpretation of data from the processes that largely heterogeneous in nature. Unfortunately, the best interpretation and understanding of many processes remains elusive in numerous real-life cases, often due to limitations in various analytical techniques or difficulties tracking the critical characteristics or properties of reacting surfaces, which involve fast or slow chemical reactions influenced, or not, by physical conditions. Indeed, classic elemental and mineralogical analyses often fall short to of fully explaining the phenomena that occur at the mineral surfaces and interfaces. That is why, in many cases, chemical reactions are known as only oversimplified representations of the actual events that take place at these surfaces.
This Special Issue aims to explore the above topics in different mineral-related processes, including but not restricted to classic mineral processing and extractive metallurgy. Scientific contributions are going to be welcomed from across all disciplines that utilize minerals and mineral-like structures in different situations at any scale, highlighting the physicochemical characteristics and properties of the mineral surfaces and interfaces involved.
Dr. Gonzalo Montes Atenas
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- minerals chemical and electrochemical reactions
- minerals surface properties
- extractive metallurgy
- minerals concentration and separation using surface/interface properties
- theoretical modeling of surface minerals
- analytical techniques applied to mineral systems
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