TY - JOUR
T1 - At the blurry edge of mineralogy
AU - Heaney, Peter J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - Nanominerals are characterized by crystal dimensions that fall between 100 and 1 nm, and as the length scale of atomic ordering approaches the lower end of this range, a material's physical and chemical properties may dramatically diverge from what is observed at the macroscale. Indeed, when atomic correlation lengths approximate the dimensions of the unitcell, one can reasonably ask whether a natural material should be classified as a mineral at all. In their Outlook contribution, Caraballo et al. (2014) offer a state-of-the-art assessment of the science of environmental nanominerals, with an emphasis on the role that crystallinity plays in their behavior.
AB - Nanominerals are characterized by crystal dimensions that fall between 100 and 1 nm, and as the length scale of atomic ordering approaches the lower end of this range, a material's physical and chemical properties may dramatically diverge from what is observed at the macroscale. Indeed, when atomic correlation lengths approximate the dimensions of the unitcell, one can reasonably ask whether a natural material should be classified as a mineral at all. In their Outlook contribution, Caraballo et al. (2014) offer a state-of-the-art assessment of the science of environmental nanominerals, with an emphasis on the role that crystallinity plays in their behavior.
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U2 - 10.2138/am-2015-5147
DO - 10.2138/am-2015-5147
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84921324804
SN - 0003-004X
VL - 100
SP - 3
JO - American Mineralogist
JF - American Mineralogist
IS - 1
ER -