Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Prehistorical, Present and Future Ceramic Materials
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Clays and Engineered Mineral Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 May 2022) | Viewed by 5413
Special Issue Editors
Interests: clay mineralogy; weathering; mineral synthesis; archaeological ceramics; tropical soil geochemistry
Interests: mineralogy; geochemistry; industrial minerals; clay minerals; laterites; X-Ray powder diffraction
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
After the discovery and use of fire, ceramic materials were certainly one of the most important products developed by human activity and that persists throughout its thousands years of history, being increasingly technologically improved, and serving as a key parameter to evaluate human evolution. Pigments were developed for everyday and artistic painting. New materials, in addition to clays, were also being incorporated, in the same way as firing processes, and many of them are still under investigation within the archaeological scenario. Currently, technologies and ceramic products are as diverse as possible, in which the raw material is extremely diversified (from natural clays, mineral and industrial residues, feldspars, micas, quartz, silica, sulphates, carbonates, etc.,) aiming at the production from basic materials for civil construction to communication technologies, mainly satellites, nanosatellites and space travel. It is a rich and infinite activity of synthesis, be it mineral or chemical products. In view of this rich scientific development scenario, the initiative to publish the Special Issue on “Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Prehistorical, Present and Future Ceramic Materials” arose. We invite you to participate on this very exciting Issue sending your research contributions.
Prof. Dr. Marcondes Lima da Costa
Prof. Dr. Rômulo Simões Angélica
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- clay mineralogy
- new raw materials
- pigments and art
- mineral synthesis
- biomineral, ceramics and human health
- mineral processing
- engineering materials
- archaeological ceramics
- mineralogy and geochemistry
- environmental impacts (extensive use in satellites, nanosatellites, wind and solar energy)
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