NanoEarth 2018 Workshop

国际和平研究所建议召开一次为期2.5天的研讨会，由纳米地球环境汇聚科学和工程领域的14名纳米技术专家参加。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，题为“2018年纳米地球研讨会”。研讨会的产品将是：1)为《科学》杂志撰写的观点和引领趋势的论文，该论文的类型是十年前美国国家科学基金会上次在Hochella领导下资助这种形式的研讨会时编写的；以及2)一个永久网站，研讨会参与者将为其建立一个资源库，记录在地球、环境科学和工程中开展纳米科学的现代方法和应用。2018年纳米地球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附带纳米颗粒有关。在纳米科学的所有领域中，偶然产生的纳米颗粒(定义为由于任何形式的直接或间接人类相关影响而无意产生的纳米颗粒)都被严重忽视，但它们被认为在自然和建筑环境中相对于工程纳米材料要丰富得多，甚至可能在数量上与天然纳米颗粒相媲美。本次讲习班将在所有与地球有关的领域深入探讨这些非凡的现象。研讨会以及随后的高知名度文章和网站将描述、定义和展示这一新的、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.