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Zeolites Applications in Veterinary Medicine *by Marc Simona and Tulcan Camelia*

Preface

Today's global challenges such as climate change, pandemics, lack of drinking water, and so on, require scientists and experts to work even harder in finding answers and solutions to such challenges, all with the goal to protect the environment, achieving

Natural resources, such as zeolite minerals, have an inexhaustible potential for scientific research and application. Based on the research of natural zeolites, synthetic zeolites have been obtained in laboratory conditions, and both types have application in many researched areas (e.g., water, soil, industries, biochemistry, medicine, etc.). Scientific research is intense in still insufficiently researched areas of their application, such as the absorption of greenhouse gases and application of

From the discovery of zeolites until today, scientific interest in their research and application has not decreased because zeolites can have a significant role in numerous sustainable processes due to their ecological and economical suitability and especially due to their unique structure and specific physical and chemical

This book is organized into three sections: "Adsorption and Diffusion Processes in Zeolite Materials," "Layered Zeolites," and "Application of Zeolite Materials."

The introductory chapter, "The Past, Present and the Future of Zeolite Science," presents a historic overview of the discovery of zeolite materials. From the literature we find that the basis of mineralogy was set in 371–297 BC (Teofrast). A sudden increase in mineral research was noted in the eighteenth century, and based on Cronstedt's observations the first properties of zeolites were discovered. Further research during the nineteenth century, and in parallel with the development of instrumental techniques, led to the discovery of new properties of zeolite materials, which contributed to intensive growth and production of synthetic zeolites during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. A great number of scientific research, patents, and industrial applications of zeolites from the twentieth century until today enabled the growth of the global zeolite market. Climate changes, threats to mankind such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and changes in economic and

political direction present new challenges for scientists and experts in research and

The first section of the book addresses the understanding of the structure, characteristics, and physical-chemical properties of zeolites as well as diffusion and adsorption processes in research of zeolite materials. The second chapter in this section, "Competitive Adsorption and Diffusion of Gases in a Microporous Solid," develops a new, fast, and accurate analytical method for the calculation of the coefficients of co-diffusing gases in the intra- and inter-crystallite spaces of

*Nikola Tesla*

*"There are no things that would be so valuable teaching as nature"*

sustainable development as well as survival of mankind on Earth.

zeolite membranes in virology.

application of these amazing materials.

properties.
