NanoEarth 2018 Workshop

PI建议召开一个为期2.5天的研讨会，由14名纳米技术专家参加，在纳米地球环境融合科学和工程领域。命名为“NanoEarth 2018研讨会”，它将于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）网站NanoEarth召开。研讨会的成果将是：1）为《科学》杂志撰写的一篇前瞻性和引领潮流的论文，这是十年前国家科学基金会在霍切拉的领导下资助这种形式的研讨会时PI发表的论文;和2）一个永久网站，讲习班与会者将为该网站建立一个资源库，记录在地球和环境科学中开展纳米科学的现代方法和应用，工程. NanoEarth 2018研讨会将集中在地球和环境/生命科学和工程的融合，因为它们涉及自然，工程和混合环境中的偶然纳米粒子。偶然的纳米粒子（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）在纳米科学的所有领域都没有得到充分的研究，但它们被认为在自然和建筑环境中相对于工程纳米材料更丰富，它们甚至可以与天然纳米粒子相媲美。这次讲习班将在所有与地球有关的领域深入探讨这些引人注目的现象。研讨会和高度可见的文章和网站将描绘，定义和展示这个新的，纳米驱动的科学和工程融合领域的重要性。

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.