A review of cold sintering processes

S Grasso, M Biesuz, L Zoli, G Taveri… - … in Applied Ceramics, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The need to reduce the energy consumed and the carbon footprint generated by firing
ceramics has stimulated research to develop consolidation techniques operating at lower …

Mineralogy and mineral chemistry of quartz: A review

J Götze, Y Pan, A Müller - mineralogical magazine, 2021 - cambridge.org
Quartz (trigonal, low-temperature α-quartz) is the most important polymorph of the silica
(SiO2) group and one of the purest minerals in the Earth crust. The mineralogy and mineral …

Snapshot of photovoltaics− May 2023

A Jäger-Waldau - EPJ Photovoltaics, 2023 - epjpv.epj.org
In 2022 the cumulative installed photovoltaic electricity generation capacity increased to
over 1 TW, 10 years after it reached the 100 GW level in 2012. In 2022, overall investment in …

Archaeomineralogy

GR Rapp - Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology, 2022 - Springer
The term archaeomineralogy is relatively new. It was used by Mitchell (1985) for a brief
bibliography, by Rapp (2002, 2009) for books, and by Kostov et al.(2008) and Rapp (2008) …

Application of cathodoluminescence microscopy and spectroscopy in geosciences

J Götze - Microscopy and Microanalysis, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Cathodoluminescence (CL) microscopy and spectroscopy are luminescence techniques
with widespread applications in geosciences. Many rock-forming and accessory minerals …

[HTML][HTML] Preparation of high-purity quartz sand by vein quartz purification and characteristics: a case study of Pakistan vein quartz

M **a, X Yang, Z Hou - Minerals, 2024 - mdpi.com
This study focuses on the purification and evaluation of the high-purity quartz (HPQ)
potential of vein quartz ore from Pakistan. Vein quartz is grayish-white and translucent, with …

Spectroscopic characterizations of sand dunes minerals of El-Oued (Northeast Algerian Sahara) by FTIR, XRF and XRD analyses

N Meftah, MS Mahboub - Silicon, 2020 - Springer
This paper investigates the chemical and crystal structural properties of sand dunes of El-
Oued region from the northeast Sahara of Algeria. By using of Fourier-transform infrared (FT …

Ice nucleation activity of silicates and aluminosilicates in pure water and aqueous solutions–Part 2: Quartz and amorphous silica

A Kumar, C Marcolli, T Peter - Atmospheric Chemistry and …, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
Divergent ice nucleation (IN) efficiencies of quartz, an important component of atmospheric
mineral dust, have been reported in previous studies. We show here that quartz particles …

Agarose-based fluorescent waveguide with embedded silica nanoparticle–carbon nanodot hybrids for pH sensing

F Amato, MCP Soares, TD Cabral… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The fabrication of a biodegradable and fluorescent cylindrical waveguide with doped hybrid
nanoparticles (silica–carbon nanodots) is reported. The fluorescent hybrids were obtained …

Discriminating quartz host rock based on its trace element chemistry using machine learning-a new tool for sedimentary provenance studies

R Saha, D Upadhyay, B Mishra - Chemical Geology, 2024 - Elsevier
Quartz is one of the most abundant mineral in the continental crust, occurring in a wide
variety of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks. It incorporates several trace …