Reactions and Interfaces: Understanding Mineral–Water Interaction Processes
A special issue of Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263). This special issue belongs to the section "Geochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 July 2018)
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue of Geosciences aims to gather high-quality original research articles and reviews on recent advances in the understanding of mineral–water interaction processes.
Mineral–water interactions govern many natural and industrial processes of environmental significance, from mineral crystallisation to weathering reactions, element cycling, carbon capture and storage, transport and immobilisation of pollutants, and mineral scaling. Reactions between fluids and rocks have a strong impact on Earth’s geochemistry at all scales, affecting the composition of surface water and groundwater, as well as rocks, sediments, and soils.
This Special Issue aims to publish papers on recent progress in the study of mineral–water interaction processes, from a fundamental or applied perspective. We welcome contributions that highlight recent experimental results on geochemical processes at mineral–water interfaces, including:
- Ion adsorption–desorption kinetics and mechanisms
- Surface precipitation processes
- Surface-mediated reactions
- Interface structure and reactivity
- Chemical and biological controls on mineral reactivity
Contributions combining novel experimental and computational approaches are also encouraged, as well as field-based studies.
Dr. Juan Diego Rodriguez-Blanco
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- surface-mediated reactions
- absorption
- adsorption
- surface precipitation
- interfaces
- crystallization
- dissolution
- aqueous geochemistry
