NanoMin; Quantitative Mineral Mapping of Nanoscale Processes

NanoMin：纳米级工艺的定量矿物测绘： 该项目旨在建立一个以电子显微镜为基础的矿物绘图和分析设施，以提供其他手段无法获得的细粒材料的快速、定量和统计上可靠的矿物学、岩相学和冶金学数据。拟议的设备可以通过称为NanoMin的集成软件和硬件系统识别亚微米粒度材料的复杂混合物中的矿物，该系统结合了光谱反卷积引擎和矿物光谱数据库。理解复杂材料的一个关键限制是矿物相的亚微米到纳米尺度的空间变异性。现在可以使用NanoMin系统对这些相位进行成像和定量。这有望在复杂的细粒材料中开辟岩石学，地球生物学和材料科学研究。

NanoMin: quantitative mineral mapping of nanoscale processes: The project seeks to establish an electron microscope-based mineral mapping and analysis facility to provide rapid, quantitative and statistically reliable mineralogical, petrographic and metallurgical data unobtainable by other means in fine-grained materials. The proposed equipment can identify minerals in complex mixtures of sub-µm-grain size materials by virtue of an integrated software and hardware system called NanoMin which incorporates a spectral deconvolution engine combined with a mineral spectra database. A key limitation in understanding complex materials is sub-micron to nanometer scale spatial variability of mineralogical phases. Imaging and quantifying these phases is now possible with the NanoMin system. This promises to open up petrological, geobiological, and materials science research in complex fine-grained materials.