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The development of effective treatment methods or the synthesis of new effective adsorbents capable of selective sorption of toxic substances is now of great importance. This reprint contains articles focused on wastewater treatment containing heavy metal ions, and hormones from synthetic and real solutions using different types of adsorbent, such as synthetic ion exchangers, natural and synthetic aluminosilicates, zeolites, magnetic multiwall carbon nanotubes, biosorbents, imprinted polymers, and magnetic adsorbents, as well as cost estimation of activated carbon production from waste nutshells by physical activation could be found.

Technology: general issues --- History of engineering & technology --- Environmental science, engineering & technology --- economic evaluation --- production cost --- nutshell waste --- activated carbon --- magnetic multiwall carbon nanotube --- adsorption --- kinetics --- isotherm --- thermodynamic --- lead --- date seeds --- thermodynamics --- T. longibrachiatum --- T. fasciculatum --- bioadsorption --- cadmium --- heavy metals --- isotherms --- bioadsorption mechanism --- mycoremediation --- amino group --- kinetic --- multifunction --- cation --- anion --- β-estradiol --- akaganeite nanorods --- adsorptive removal --- endocrine disruptors --- desirability function --- divalent cobalt --- Lemna gibba --- biosorption --- desorption --- SEM-EDX --- androgenic hormones --- solid-phase extraction --- molecularly imprinted polymers --- trenbolone --- nickel removal --- ion exchangers --- water pollution --- Lewatit MonoPlus TP220 --- lead (II) --- Azadirachta indica leaves --- water --- metals --- smectite --- kaolinite --- zeolites --- nanomaterials --- remediation --- bioelectrochemical systems --- wastewater --- nanocomposites

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Conservation of painted surfaces, metal leaves, and finishes requires a deep knowledge of both the materials themselves and the supports and the interaction phenomena occurring among them. Superficial treatments, operations, and materials adopted during the conservation intervention can modify the complex system of existing interactions. Therefore, it is fundamental to predict possible induced changes of the chemical-physical properties of the systems. This Special Issue aims at contributing to the definition of the state-of-the-art in the approach to conservation problems of painted surfaces, metal leaves, and finishes. In particular, the topic of interest includes but is not limited to: Methodological approaches for the conservation treatments of the painted surfaces, metal leaves, and finishes; Analytical tools and protocols for the validation of the treatment efficacy and recognizability; Analytical tools for the characterization of surface materials and their decay processes; New materials and treatments.

Technology: general issues --- History of engineering & technology --- Materials science --- Maya blue --- wall paintings --- sixteenth century --- palygorskite --- X-ray fluorescence --- X-ray diffraction --- paintings --- metal soaps --- natural resins --- varnishes --- smalt --- shellac --- copper alloys --- UV-induced fluorescence --- FTIR spectroscopy --- eddy current --- UV imaging --- artificial ageing --- non-invasive characterization --- polychromy --- polychrome stone statue --- adhesion and cohesion products --- conservation of pictorial films on stone --- violin --- XRF --- FTIR --- reflection infrared spectroscopy --- 3D scan --- stratigraphy --- varnish --- musical instrument --- 14th century --- wood-carved --- microscopy --- Raman --- SEM-EDX --- materials --- pigments --- laser cleaning --- Er:YAG laser --- efficacy evaluation --- Manet --- painting --- portrait --- woman --- 19th century --- extenders --- original materials --- later alterations --- cultural heritage --- conservation --- wooden sculpture --- ancient Egyptian --- ancient Egyptian painting materials --- cleaning treatment --- water based systems --- poly(vinyl alcohol) hydrogels --- archaeometry --- Maya blue --- wall paintings --- sixteenth century --- palygorskite --- X-ray fluorescence --- X-ray diffraction --- paintings --- metal soaps --- natural resins --- varnishes --- smalt --- shellac --- copper alloys --- UV-induced fluorescence --- FTIR spectroscopy --- eddy current --- UV imaging --- artificial ageing --- non-invasive characterization --- polychromy --- polychrome stone statue --- adhesion and cohesion products --- conservation of pictorial films on stone --- violin --- XRF --- FTIR --- reflection infrared spectroscopy --- 3D scan --- stratigraphy --- varnish --- musical instrument --- 14th century --- wood-carved --- microscopy --- Raman --- SEM-EDX --- materials --- pigments --- laser cleaning --- Er:YAG laser --- efficacy evaluation --- Manet --- painting --- portrait --- woman --- 19th century --- extenders --- original materials --- later alterations --- cultural heritage --- conservation --- wooden sculpture --- ancient Egyptian --- ancient Egyptian painting materials --- cleaning treatment --- water based systems --- poly(vinyl alcohol) hydrogels --- archaeometry

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Crystallography remains, for mineralogy, one of the main sources of information on natural crystalline substances. A description of mineral species shape is carried out according to the principles of geometric crystallography; the crystal structure of minerals is determined using X-ray crystallography techniques, and physical crystallography approaches allow one to evaluate various properties of minerals, etc. However, the reverse comparison should not be forgotten as well: the crystallography science, in its current form, was born in the course of mineralogical research, long before preparative chemistry received such extensive development. It is worth noting that, even today, investigations of crystallographic characteristics of minerals regularly open up new horizons in materials science, because the possibilities of nature (fascinating chemical diversity; great variation of thermodynamic parameters; and, of course, almost endless processing time) are still not available for reproduction in any of the world's laboratories. This Special Issue is devoted to mineralogical crystallography, the oldest branch of crystallographic science, and aims to combine important surveys covering topics indicated in the keywords below.

Research & information: general --- galenobismutite --- high pressure --- single-crystal X-ray synchrotron diffraction --- equation of state --- calcium ferrite structure type --- lone electron pair --- vaterite --- calcium carbonate --- polymorph --- precipitation --- synthesis --- carbonation --- pathogen crystallization --- biomimetic synthesis --- renal stone --- calcium oxalate --- apatite --- brushite --- struvite --- octocalcium phosphate --- whitlockite --- Escherichia coli --- Klebsiella pneumoniae --- Pseudomonas aeruginosa --- Staphylococcus aureus --- uranyl --- selenite --- selenate --- crystal structure --- topology --- structural complexity --- demesmaekerite --- guillemenite --- haynesite --- coesite --- high-temperature Raman --- FTIR spectrum --- single crystal structure --- isobaric Grüneisen parameters --- OH-stretching modes --- strontium oxalate --- solid solutions --- ionic substitutions --- weddellite --- whewellite --- X-ray powder diffraction --- scanning electron microscopy --- EDX spectroscopy --- hydroxy-hydrate --- sulfate --- cesium --- schoepite --- krasnoshteinite --- zeolite-like borate --- hydrous aluminum chloroborate --- new mineral --- microporous crystalline material --- evaporitic salt rock --- Verkhnekamskoe potassium salt deposit --- Perm Krai --- anatomy --- Cactaceae --- oxalate --- silica --- stem --- stanfieldite --- phosphate --- merrillite --- meteorite --- pallasite --- mesosiderite --- luminophore --- bioceramics --- powder diffraction --- Raman spectroscopy --- Kamchatka --- hot springs --- pyrite --- complexity of crystal habits --- Mars --- mineral --- crystallography --- crystal chemistry --- X-ray diffraction --- crystal growth --- mineral evolution

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During the last decade, software developments in Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) provoked a notable increase of applications to the study of solid matter. The mineral liberation analysis (MLA) of processed metal ores was an important drive for innovations that led to QEMSCAN, MLA and other software platforms. These combine the assessment of the backscattered electron (BSE) image to the directed steering of the electron beam for energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) to automated mineralogy. However, despite a wide distribution of SEM instruments in material research and industry, the potential of SEM automated mineralogy is still under-utilised. The characterisation of primary ores, and the optimisation of comminution, flotation, mineral concentration and metallurgical processes in the mining industry by generating quantified data, is still the major application field of SEM automated mineralogy. However, there is interesting potential beyond these classical fields of geometallurgy and metal ore fingerprinting. Slags, pottery and artefacts can be studied in an archeological context for the recognition of provenance and trade pathways; soil, and solid particles of all kinds, are objects in forensic science. SEM automated mineralogy allows new insight in the fields of process chemistry and recycling technology.

Research & information: general --- Zr-REE-Nb deposits --- alkaline rocks --- automated mineralogy --- Khalzan Buregtei --- automated scanning electron microscopy --- QEMSCAN® --- trace minerals --- gold --- REE minerals --- REE carbonatite ore --- comminution --- multi-stage flotation --- EDX spectra --- MLA --- mineral processing --- iron ore --- Kiruna --- Raman spectroscopy --- magnetite --- hematite --- scanning electron microscopy (SEM) --- automated quantitative analysis (AQM) --- spectrum quantification --- signal deconvolution --- fault gouge --- 200-nm resolution --- grain size distribution --- Ikkattup nunaa --- mineral maps --- submicrometer --- automated quantitative mineralogy (AQM) --- scanning electron microscopy --- ZEISS Mineralogic --- Fiskenæsset complex --- Feret angle --- element concentration map --- visualization --- mineral association --- bulk composition --- grain size --- waste of electrical and electronic equipment --- X-ray computed tomography --- mineral liberation analysis --- indicator minerals --- heavy mineral concentrates --- till sampling --- VMS --- Izok Lake --- sewage sludge ashes (SSA) --- phosphate --- recycling --- recovery --- SEM-automated mineralogy --- mineral liberation analysis (MLA) --- scanning electron microscope --- raw materials --- resource technology --- granular material --- petrology --- n/a

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This Special Issue “Characterization of Nanomaterials” collects nine selected papers presented at the 6th Dresden Nanoanalysis Symposium, held at Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems in Dresden, Germany, on 31 August 2018. Following the specific motto of this annual symposium “Materials challenges—Micro- and nanoscale characterization”, it covered various topics of nanoscale materials characterization along the whole value and innovation chain, from fundamental research up to industrial applications. The scope of this Special Issue is to provide an overview of the current status, recent developments and research activities in the field of nanoscale materials characterization, with a particular emphasis on future scenarios. Primarily, analytical techniques for the characterization of thin films and nanostructures are discussed, including modeling and simulation. We anticipate that this Special Issue will be accessible to a wide audience, as it explores not only methodical aspects of nanoscale materials characterization, but also materials synthesis, fabrication of devices and applications.

Technology: general issues --- physical vapor deposition --- magnetron sputtering --- AlN/Al coating --- silicon substrate --- residual stresses --- wafer curvature method --- nanoscale residual stress profiling --- indentation failure modes --- nanoindentation adhesion --- intermetallic phases --- growth kinetics --- Al–Ni system --- zinc oxide --- nanoparticles --- paper transistors --- printed electronics --- electrolyte-gated transistors --- microwave synthesis --- oxide dissociation --- doping --- rare earth ions --- upconversion --- liquid alloys --- 2D materials --- thin films --- Ga–Sn–Zn alloys --- gallium alloys --- nanoanalysis --- lithium-ion --- nickel–manganese–cobalt oxide (NMC) --- leaching --- recycling --- recover --- degradation --- SEM-EDX --- Raman spectroscopy --- resistive switching memories --- multi-level cell --- copper oxide --- grain boundaries --- aluminum oxide --- p-type TFT --- p-type oxide semiconductors --- SnO electrical properties --- oxide structure analysis --- ToF-SIMS 3D imaging --- compositional depth profiling --- high aspect ratio (HAR) structures --- silicon doped hafnium oxide (HSO) ALD deposition --- lateral high aspect ratio (LHAR) --- ToF-SIMS analysis --- n/a --- Al-Ni system --- Ga-Sn-Zn alloys --- nickel-manganese-cobalt oxide (NMC)