Advances into Clay Minerals: Properties and Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Earth Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 288
Special Issue Editors
Interests: phyllosilicates and clay minerals in tardi-magmamatic systems, hydrothermal and in pre-salt rocks; accessory minerals such as chronometers and geochemical tracers; chemical mobility and mineral reactions in shear zones
Interests: authigenic clay minerals; X-ray diffraction; characterization of clay minerals; hydrothermalism; soil science; weathering
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Interests: clays and clay minerals; industrial minerals in general and traditional building materials; medical geology; coastal and marine geology
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Interests: geology and geochemistry of clays; special clays applications; sepiolite–palygorskite; bentonite; talc–kerolite; clays and health; mineral characterization
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Clays represent one of the most versatile and interdisciplinary fields of study in the Earth sciences. Their species variety, coupled with their wide distribution and occurrence (both on the surface and in the subsurface), provides the potential for a range of scientific and applied investigations. On the surface, they are practically omnipresent, especially due to their close relationship and reactivity with the hydroclimatic dynamics of modern environments. In the subsurface, they can be traced back to the processes and paths of reactions caused by fluids associated with the formation and transformation of rocks.
They have been exponents throughout the evolution of science, from their first applications as an auxiliary material in the early days of humanity to their uses in various segments of industry and technology today. Understanding them on a large scale in the field of terrestrial tectonics and at the nanoscale in interplanetary sciences poses major analytical challenges and should result in significant and increasingly urgent advances in today’s society.
This Special Issue on Advances into Clay Minerals: Properties and Applications, published by Applied Sciences, is open to contributions from various lines of research that contribute to the challenges of mineralogical and chemical characterization, behavioral and property tests, and the application of clay minerals around the world.
Dr. Márcia Elisa Boscato Gomes
Prof. Dr. André Sampaio Mexias
Prof. Dr. Fernando Rocha
Prof. Dr. Manuel Pozo Rodríguez
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- clay minerals
- genesis
- chemical characterization
- mineralogical characterization
- industrial applications
- technological applications
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