Ion Adsorption at Mineral–Water Interfaces
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Crystallography and Physical Chemistry of Minerals & Nanominerals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 January 2022) | Viewed by 14899
Special Issue Editor
Interests: environmental geochemistry; surface science; adsorption; geochemistry; mineral-water interface structure; surface complexation modelling; recrystallization kinetics; calcite; barite; iron-oxides; clay-minerals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ion adsorption at mineral–water interfaces has a major influence on ion mobility in porous systems, the charging of mineral surfaces in electrolyte solutions, and the colloidal behavior of mineral particles. Thus, it plays a major role in a multitude of settings. These range from environmental issues to industrial applications and may include mobility or bioavailability of toxic substances or nutrients in natural systems as well as filtration, the rheologic behavior of mineral suspensions, or the wetting behavior of mineral surfaces, just to name a few examples for prominent effects, controlled by ion adsorption at mineral–water interfaces.
For this Special Issue, we encourage submissions of studies investigating ion adsorption phenomena on a wide range of scales and using a wide range of theoretical and experimental methods, from atomistic simulations to continuum scale thermodynamic and kinetic models, and from spectroscopic and microscopic experimental investigations on the molecular scale processes to investigations on large-scale natural or technical systems.
Dr. Frank Heberling
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- mineral–water interfaces
- mineral surface reactions
- ion adsorption
- mineralogy
- geochemistry
- surface science
- surface charge
- ion mobility
- spectroscopy
- microscopy
- atomistic simulations
- thermodynamic models
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