Nanodeserts: A Conjecture in Nanotechnology to Enhance Quasi-Photosynthetic CO2 Absorption

International Journal of Polymer Science

Fanyu Zeng¹  Jing Zhang²  Yifan Zhang³  Hui Zou⁴  Jianjun Yu⁵  Zhihan Lv⁶  Tianyi Ma⁷  Wenfeng Wang⁸  Xi Chen⁸ 

[1] Center for Robotics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China;College of Energy and Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai 200090, China;Department of Chemistry, Inha University, 100 Inharo, Incheon 402-751, Republic of Korea;Department of Computer Science and Technology, Huaqiao University, Xiamen 361021, China;Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK;High Performance Computing Center, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China;School of Chemical Engineering, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia;State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, China;

DOI  :  10.1155/2016/5027879

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This paper advances “nanodeserts” as a conjecture on the possibility of developing the hierarchical structured polymeric nanomaterials for enhancing abiotic CO2 fixation in the soil-groundwater system beneath deserts (termed as quasi-photosynthetic CO2 absorption). Arid and semiarid deserts ecosystems approximately characterize one-third of the Earth’s land surface but play an unsung role in the carbon cycling, considering the huge potentials of such CO2 absorption to expand insights to the long-sought missing CO2 sink and the naturally unneglectable turbulence in temperature sensitivities of soil respiration it produced. “Nanodeserts” as a reconciled concept not only indicate a conjecture in nanotechnology to enhance quasi-photosynthetic CO2 absorption, but also aim to present to the desert researchers a better understanding of the footprints of abiotic CO2 transport, conversion, and assignment in the soil-groundwater system beneath deserts. Meanwhile, nanodeserts allow a stable temperature sensitivity of soil respiration in deserts by largely reducing the CO2 release above the deserts surface and highlighting the abiotic CO2 fixation beneath deserts. This may be no longer a novelty in the future.

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