Natural Zeolites: Cation Exchange, Cation Arrangement and Dehydration Behavior -- Natural Ion Exchange in Microporous Minerals: Different Aspects and Implications -- Why Do Super-Aluminous Sodalites and Melilites Exist, but Not so Feldspars? -- First Natural Pharmacosiderite-Related Titanosilicates and Their Ion-Exchange Properties -- Tobermorite 11 Å and Its Synthetic Counterparts: Structural Relationships and Thermal Behaviour -- Mixed-Framework Microporous Natural Zirconosilicates -- Chivruaiite, a New Mineral with Ion-Exchange Properties -- Tl-Exchange in Zorite and ETS-4 -- The Largest Source of Minerals with Unique Structure and Properties -- Trigonal Members of the Lovozerite Group: A Re-investigation -- Ion-Exchange Properties of Natural Sodium Zirconosilicate Terskite -- Chemistry of Cancrinite-Group Minerals from the Khibiny-Lovozero Alkaline Complex, Kola Peninsula, Russia -- On the Inhomogeneities in the Structures of Labuntsovite-Group Minerals -- Phosphates with Amphoteric Oxocomplexes: Crystal Chemical Features and Expected Physical Properties -- Structural Mineralogy of Borates as Perspective Materials for Technological Applications -- Zeolite-Like Borosilicates from the Si-Rich Part of the R2O-B2O3-SiO2 (R = K, Rb, Cs) Systems -- Structural Diversity of Layered Double Hydroxides -- Crystal Chemistry of Oxocentered Chain Lead Oxyhalides and their Importance as Perspective Materials -- Features of Low-Temperature Alteration of Ti- and Nb-Phyllosilicates Under Laboratory Conditions -- Silicate Tubes in the Crystal Structure of Manaksite -- Heterophyllosilicates, a Potential Source of Nanolayers for Materials Science -- Fullerene-Like Carbon in Nature and Perspectives of its use in Science-Based Technologies -- Fullerenes as Possible Collectors of Noble, Rare, and Disseminated Elements -- Nanotubes in Minerals and Mineral-Related Systems -- Natural and Synthetic Minerals - Matrices (Forms) for Actinide Waste Immobilization -- Behavior of Actinide Host-Phases Under Self-irradiation: Zircon, Pyrochlore, Monazite, and Cubic Zirconia Doped with Pu-238 -- Stabilization of Radioactive Salt-Containing Liquid and Sludge waste on the Ceramic Matrices -- The Role of Organic Matter in Peralkaline Pegmatites: Comparison of Minerogenetic and Technological Processes -- Structure, Chemistry and Crystallization Conditions of Calcium Oxalates - The Main Components of Kidney Stones -- Structure, Chemistry and Synthesis of Carbonate Apatites - The Main Components of Dental and Bone Tissues. This book represents a collection of papers presented at the 1st International workshop 'Minerals as Advanced Materials I' planned as an exchange of ideas between mineralogists and material scientists. The basic idea of the workshop was to identify minerals and mineral objects that have or potentially have unique physical, chemical and structural properties that are of interest from the viewpoint of applied mineralogy and material science. The topics covered include: zeolites, their natural occurrence, properties and applications; microporous and mesoporous mineral phases; layered mineral structures and composites; natural nanostructures (nanotubes, nanoclusters, nanocomposites, photonic crystals); biological minerals and biocompatible materials; minerals as actinide host matrices and other aspects of interactions between mineralogy and material sciences.