Objective
This proposal focuses on the new interdisciplinary area known as Mineral Surface Science. Understanding the reactivity of mineral surfaces is fundamental to understanding the interaction of minerals with their external chemical environment, and so is concerned with earth processes as diverse as the crystallisation of minerals in metamorphic rocks, to the interaction of minerals with man made pollutants. The very rapid advances made in the last decade in the experimental study of mineral surfaces, and the fact that computational mineralogy is at the point of being able to realistically simulate mineral surfaces in contact with fluids, makes this conference series timely. The objective is to bring together experimentalists and theoreticians and attempt to define the direction of this diverse subject area, specially with the aim of involving young research workers in an enterprise which will be of increasing importance in the future.
The computer simulation of growth, adsorption and dissolution processes at mineral surfaces represents the next major challenge in computational minerology. We expect rapid advances over the next few years, and this underlines the importance of bringing together experimentalists and theoreticians at an early stage. The first meeting will therefore emphasise the nature of the problem, the kinds of questions we are poised to answer, the experimental methods we have at our disposal and the results obtained so far. The current state of computer simulation methods in relation to mineral surfaces will be defined, and realistic goals set for the future. The second meeting, two years later, will emphasise computational models of mineral surfaces and their relationship to experimental results. At that stage we expect to be able to report applications of these results to real environmental and industrial problems.
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences geology petrology metamorphic petrology
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences geology mineralogy
- natural sciences mathematics applied mathematics mathematical model
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