Texture and Microstructural Analysis of Crystalline Solids, Volume II

Dear Colleagues,

Microstructure and crystallographic preferred orientation (texture) have been revealed as key features to understand the genesis and evolution of natural and man-made crystalline solids. Non-random spatial distribution of minerals and their orientations in an aggregate commonly result in anisotropy of physical and chemical properties. The research on natural and experimentally deformed rock-forming and ore minerals during the last twenty years has revealed prime information about deformation mechanisms and their operative conditions, which improved our knowledge on geodynamics and the development of natural resources. On other hand, a strong connection exists between texture/microstructure and properties of mineralized tissues in living and fossil organisms. This has been used to explore life evolution and design new materials. The application of advanced quantitative techniques like neutron, X-ray diffraction, and particularly EBSD has become very popular. All these techniques have merged as an extraordinary opportunity to puzzle out microevolution of crystalline aggregates. Real 3D microstructural information can be obtained with microtomography, which, for instance, improves the understanding of ore genesis and constrains parameters required for mineral or metallurgical processing. Texture and microstructure modeling (e.g. VPSC, FF-VPSC, ELLE, etc.) are quickly evolving to face paramount challenges on polycrystal plasticity. This Special Issue aims to publish review papers on seminal topics (methods and applications), as well as appropriate examples of texture and microstructure analysis of rocks, ore-minerals and biominerals. Papers providing experimental data and modeling to explore texture/microstructure and growth/deformation/recrystallization mechanisms are also welcome.

Dr. Juan Gómez-Barreiro
Guest Editor

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• texture
• microstructure
• anysotropy
• ore minerals
• EBSD
• neutron diffraction
• synchrotron
• SEM-TEM
• deformation mechanisms
• CPO
• shear zones
• gold
• recrystallization
• VPSC
• biominerals

• Texture and Microstructural Analysis of Crystalline Solids in Minerals (5 articles)