Layered Minerals and Materials: Crystal Structures, Properties and Applications
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 (1 August 2020) | Viewed by 18123
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Interests: minerals; Earth sciences; crystallography; X-ray diffraction; inorganic chemistry; layered minerals and materials; exhalative minerals
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Dear Colleagues,
Layered minerals and inorganic materials include compounds structurally based on two-dimensional tetrahedral or heteropolyhedral complexes. Nowadays, layered minerals and related synthetic compounds are extensively investigated in very different fields, from mineralogy, geochemistry, and biogeochemistry to solid-state physics, inorganic chemistry, and materials science. The most well-known class of layered compounds with a wide range of applications is represented by clay minerals, which include a number of different groups: kaolinite–serpentine, talc and pyrophyllite, smectite, chlorite, etc. The relatively recent discovery of clay minerals in meteorites allowed to suggest that the formation of minerals with a layered structure was an important prerequisite for the appearance of self-replicating organic compounds on Earth. In addition to clay minerals, such layered materials as layered double hydroxides (LDH), hybrid organo-inorganic compounds, titanosilicates, etc. are obtained using a wide variety of synthesis methods in the chemical industry. Most of the layered materials used in our days in various industries are analogues of known minerals or related mineral-like phases.
This Special Issue welcomes contributions on layered minerals and materials, layered crystal structures, and on applications of clay minerals and layered double hydroxides, composite materials.
Dr. Oleg Siidra
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- layered materials
- layered minerals
- layered double hydroxides (LDH)
- clay minerals
- sorbents
- composite materials
- organically templated materials
- layered minerals and materials characterization methods