Geological Survey Materials: Current Status and Future Perspectives
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 May 2025 | Viewed by 81
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues
Geological reference materials play an important role in analytical chemistry. They are used as samples for calibration and quality control, quality assurance, and interlaboratory comparisons of analytical data for concentrations and isotopic compositions. For most instrumental analyses (XRF, ICP-MS, and SIMS), as geological reference materials are used as calibration, the accuracy of the obtained concentration and isotopic data depends on the accurate and precise data of the geological reference samples. It is preferable that the mineralogical and chemical compositions of geological reference materials and the unknown samples being analyzed are similar to each other. To meet the above requirement, geological reference materials are produced from various rocks, minerals, and synthetic and natural glasses, and there are currently several thousand geological reference materials that have been produced by many international organizations. This Special Issue aims to explore the latest advancements, challenges, and future directions in the preparation, certification, and application of geological reference materials.
This Special Issue invites submissions for original scientific research articles and reviews relating to geological reference materials, focusing on the following topics:
- advances in standardization and their role in calibrating analytical instruments;
- analytical techniques for the analysis of geological reference materials;
- new geological reference material;
- the compilation of certified values for reference materials through quality assurance practices and traceability;
- new analytical data of reference materials;
- research on the homogeneity and long-term stability of reference materials.
Dr. Naoki Shirai
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- reference material
- sample preparation
- homogeneity
- analytical techniques
- method validation
- data accuracy
- interlaboratory comparisons
- certification
- quality assurance
- traceability
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