NanoEarth 2018 Workshop

PI提议召开一个由纳米-地球-环境融合科学与工程领域的14名纳米技术专家参加的为期2.5天的研讨会。研讨会名为“纳米地球2018研讨会”，将于2018年4月下旬在弗吉尼亚理工大学的国家纳米技术协调基础设施（NNCI）站点纳米地球召开。研讨会的产品将是：1)在《科学》杂志上发表的一篇前瞻性和引领趋势的论文，这种论文是十年前在Hochella领导下由国家科学基金会资助的这种形式的研讨会；2)一个永久性的网站，研讨会参与者将为其建立一个资源库，记录在地球和环境科学与工程中进行纳米科学的现代方法和应用。纳米地球2018年研讨会将集中讨论地球与环境/生命科学和工程的融合，因为它们与自然、工程和混合环境中的偶然纳米粒子有关。在纳米科学的所有领域中，偶然产生的纳米粒子（定义为由于任何形式的直接或间接的人类相关影响而无意产生的纳米粒子）的研究都很不足，但它们被认为相对于自然和人造环境中的工程纳米材料要丰富得多，它们甚至可能在丰度上与天然纳米粒子相媲美。本次讲习班将在所有与地球有关的领域深入探讨这些显著现象。接下来的研讨会和高可见度的文章和网站将描述、定义和展示这个新的、纳米驱动的科学和工程领域的重要性。

The PI proposes to convene a 2.5-day workshop attended by 14 nanotechnologists in the field of Nano-Geo-Enviro Convergent Science and Engineering. Entitled "NanoEarth 2018 Workshop", it will convene in late April, 2018 at NanoEarth, the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) site at Virginia Tech. The products of the workshop will be: 1) a perspective and trend-setting paper for the journal Science, of the type that the PI produced a decade ago when NSF last funded this form of workshop under Hochella's leadership; and 2) a permanent website for which workshop participants will build a library of resources that document modern methods and applications in conducting nanoscience in the Earth and environmental sciences and engineering. The NanoEarth 2018 Workshop will center on the convergence of Earth and environmental/life sciences and engineering as they relate to incidental nanoparticles in natural, engineered, and mixed settings. Incidental nanoparticles (defined as those unintentionally produced due to any form of direct or indirect human-related influence) are heavily understudied in all fields of nanoscience, yet they are thought to be much more abundant relative to engineered nanomaterials in the natural and the built environments, and they may even rival natural nanoparticles in abundance. This Workshop will explore these remarkable phenomena in great depth and in all Earth-related fields. The workshop and highly-visible article and website to follow will delineate, define, and demonstrate the importance of this new, nano-driven convergent field of science and engineering.