Highlights in Applied Mineralogy

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-11-049122-7
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 176 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 798 g

What can we learn from nature? The study of the physical, chemical and structural properties of well-known minerals in the geo- and biosphere creates new opportunities for innovative applications in technology, environment or medicine. This book highlights today’s research on outstanding minerals such as garnets used as components in all solid state batteries, delafossite formation during wastewater treatment, monazites for the immobilization of high level radioactive waste or hyroxylapatite as bioactive material for medical implant applications. Contents
Part I: High-technology materials
Lithium ion–conducting oxide garnets
Olivine-type battery materials
Natural and synthetic zeolites
Microstructure analysis of chalcopyrite-type CuInSe2 and kesterite-type Cu2ZnSnSe4 absorber layers in thin film solar cells
Surface-engineered silica via plasma polymer deposition
Crystallographic symmetry analysis in NiTi shape memory alloys Part II: Environmental mineralogy
Gold, silver, and copper in the geosphere and anthroposphere: can industrial wastewater act as an anthropogenic resource?
Applied mineralogy for recovery from the accident of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
Phosphates as safe containers for radionuclides
Immobilization of high-level waste calcine (radwaste) in perovskites
Titanate ceramics for high-level nuclear waste immobilization Part III: Biomineralization, biomimetics, and medical mineralogy
Patterns of mineral organization in carbonate biological hard materials
Sea urchin spines as role models for biological design and integrative structures
Nacre: a biomineral, a natural biomaterial, and a source of bio-inspiration
Hydroxylapatite coatings: applied mineralogy research in the bioceramics field
A procedure to apply spectroscopic techniques in the investigation of silica-bearing industrial materials

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heuss-Aßbichler, Soraya

Amthauer, Georg

John, Melanie

Weitere Mitwirkende

Behnam, Akhavan

Buck, Gerald

Capacci, Fabio

Checa, Antonio

Di Benedetto, Francesco

Eisenhauer, Anton

Giere, Reto

Gies, Hermann

Griesshaber, Erika

Gunder, Rene

Heimann, Robert B.

Hirsch, Antje

Hoelzel, Markus

Jarvis, Karyn

Julien, Christian

Kadletz, Peter M.

Klang, Katharina

Kelm, Klemens

Lauer, Christoph

Leppin, Leonhard

Lumpkin, Gregory R.

Marler, Bernd

Marquardt, Julien

Mauger, Alain

Majewski, Peter

Neumeier, Stefan

Nickel, Klaus

Pardi, Luca

Lars, Peter

Pöllmann, Herbert

Rettenwander, Daniel

Roth, Georg

Romanelli, Maurizio

Rousseau, Marthe

Sato, Tsutomu

Schiebel, Korbinian

Schlenz, Hartmut

Schmahl, Wolfgang

Smith, Katherine L.

Schorr, Susan

Stöber, Stefan

Wagner, Reinhard

Yin, Xiaofei

Ziegler, Andreas

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Petrologie, Mineralogie

Über Autor(innen)

Soraya Heuss-Aßbichler and Melanie John, LM University, Munich, Germany. Georg Amthauer, PL University, Salzburg, Austria.