Applications of Clay Minerals and Engineered Materials in Water and Wastewater Treatment
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Clays and Engineered Mineral Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 175
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Patras, GR-26504 Patras, Greece
Interests: clay minerals and other engineered materials application as adsorbents for water and wastewater treatment; materials characterization (spectroscopy and physcicochemical characteristics); hydrochar synthesis; biological methods for wastewater treatment
Interests: mineralogical characterization; clay, clay mineral, and other natural material used in cosmetics, pharmaceutical, energy, and environmental applications; nanocomposites’ synthesis and characterization; molecular simulations (quantum and classical) of clay minerals interacted with organic or inorganic materials
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Interests: mineralogical characterization; clay mineral deposits genesis; clay, clay minerals, and other natural material applications; nanocomposites’ synthesis and characterization
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The global issue of wastewater production and groundwater pollution poses a crucial environmental and public health challenge. Wastewater production has increased and often overwhelms the capacity of existing treatment infrastructure due to excessive urban, industrial, and agricultural activities. Uncleaned or inadequately treated wastewater may contain contaminants, including heavy metals, pathogens, increased concentrations of nutrients, and hazardous chemicals, which may leach into the aquifer, the primary source of drinking water for more than two billion people. Moreover, as freshwater resources diminish due to climate change and over-extraction, the urgent need for sustainable wastewater management and pollution prevention strategies is highlighted.
The application or contribution of clay minerals and engineered materials is of crucial importance in the research field of water and wastewater treatment. Their natural abundances and/or properties, such as high specific surface area, porosity, adsorption capacity, ion exchange capacity, and non-toxicity, can result in environmentally friendly and sustainable degradation of contaminants in water bodies, as they reduce the need for chemical treatment and minimize secondary contamination.
The Special Issue invites submissions that include original scientific research relating to clays and clay minerals (montmorillonite, bentonite, kaolinite, halloysite, palygorskite, sepiolite, illite) and other engineered materials (zeolites, layered double hydroxides, fly ash, cementitious phases) evaluation as promising materials in water and wastewater treatment. The Special Issue focuses on the following topics: (a) experimental research with the application of clayey and engineered materials in real or synthetic contaminated water/ wastewater samples for treatment, (b) the physicochemical and spectroscopy characteristics of the used materials, and (c) molecular simulation (potentially combined with experimental data) of these materials and their properties for contaminants removal.
Dr. Christina Vasiliki Lazaratou
Dr. Eleni Gianni
Prof. Dr. Dimitrios Papoulis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- clay minerals
- zeolites
- layered double hydroxides
- cement materials
- spectroscopy characteristics
- materials properties
- molecular simulations
- water treatment
- wastewater treatment
- adsorption
- catalysis
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