Functional Design of Clay Minerals

Dear Colleagues,

Functional design of clay minerals is a key strategy to realize its high value utilization. The special issue primarily focuses on the functional strategy and theoretical study of clay minerals, and their application in the environment, energy, and biomedicine fields. Functional design mainly includes the controllable loading of nanomaterials on the surface of clay minerals, interlayer structure adjust and interface binding behavior. Also the interaction of biological cells with clay minerals was emphasized. Furthermore, density functional theory (DFT) calculations can analyse the electronic structure and energy of functionalized clay minerals at the atomic molecular level.

Prof. Dr. Huaming Yang
Dr. Yunfei Xi
Guest Editors

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