Environmental Applications of Chemically Modified Clay Minerals, Volume II
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 October 2022) | Viewed by 5460
Special Issue Editor
Interests: smectite; illite; kaolinite; iron; reduction; XRD; XRF; Mössbauer spectroscopy; FT-IR spectroscopy; short-wave Infrared spectroscopy
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Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the Minerals Journal, I would like to invite you, one more time, to join me in the Special Issue related to the investigation of clay minerals with a focus on their environmental applications. Volume I has an incredible response in the scientific audience with many citations.
Clay minerals are natural materials with unique properties (large specific surface area, cation exchange capacity). For decades, most known clay mineral groups, smectites, and kaolinites have been investigated. Their usage ranges from cosmetics through paper and paints additives to environmental applications. Due to the negative layer charge, the smectites have a large specific surface area and cation exchange capacity. They are excellent natural adsorbents, but their properties can be enhanced by chemical modification to study their:
- Structural stability under extreme pH conditions (the isolation layers of toxic waste dumps and spent radioactive fuel storages - acid and alkali activation);
- Redox activity remediated contaminated waters and soils by industrial or agricultural discharges (chemical and biological redox activation of structural Fe);
- Reactivity with oversaturated saline solutions (geological clay barriers);
- Anti-inflammatory activity and other biological applications of clay minerals.
These topics are highly recommended for this Volume II of the Special Issue of the Minerals Journal, but other environmental utilizations of chemically modified clay minerals are also welcome.
Finally, the overall goal of this Special Issue is to bring a message about the actual environmental applications of chemically modified clay minerals.
Dr. Martin P. Pentrak
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- smectite
- kaolinite
- acid activation
- redox activation
- remediation
- contamination
- environmental application
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