Nanodeserts: A Conjecture in Nanotechnology to Enhance Quasi-Photosynthetic CO2 Absorption
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 ecosyste...
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| author | Wenfeng Wang Xi Chen Yifan Zhang Jianjun Yu Tianyi Ma Zhihan Lv Jing Zhang Fanyu Zeng Hui Zou |
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj-art-db84050e82c547cd8f43f4cbe6fb02692025-02-03T01:20:14ZengWileyInternational Journal of Polymer Science1687-94221687-94302016-01-01201610.1155/2016/50278795027879Nanodeserts: A Conjecture in Nanotechnology to Enhance Quasi-Photosynthetic CO2 AbsorptionWenfeng Wang0Xi Chen1Yifan Zhang2Jianjun Yu3Tianyi Ma4Zhihan Lv5Jing Zhang6Fanyu Zeng7Hui Zou8State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, ChinaDepartment of Chemistry, Inha University, 100 Inharo, Incheon 402-751, Republic of KoreaEnvironmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UKSchool of Chemical Engineering, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, AustraliaHigh Performance Computing Center, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, ChinaCollege of Energy and Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai 200090, ChinaCenter for Robotics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, ChinaDepartment of Computer Science and Technology, Huaqiao University, Xiamen 361021, ChinaThis 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.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5027879 |
| spellingShingle | Wenfeng Wang Xi Chen Yifan Zhang Jianjun Yu Tianyi Ma Zhihan Lv Jing Zhang Fanyu Zeng Hui Zou Nanodeserts: A Conjecture in Nanotechnology to Enhance Quasi-Photosynthetic CO2 Absorption International Journal of Polymer Science |
| title | Nanodeserts: A Conjecture in Nanotechnology to Enhance Quasi-Photosynthetic CO2 Absorption |
| title_full | Nanodeserts: A Conjecture in Nanotechnology to Enhance Quasi-Photosynthetic CO2 Absorption |
| title_fullStr | Nanodeserts: A Conjecture in Nanotechnology to Enhance Quasi-Photosynthetic CO2 Absorption |
| title_full_unstemmed | Nanodeserts: A Conjecture in Nanotechnology to Enhance Quasi-Photosynthetic CO2 Absorption |
| title_short | Nanodeserts: A Conjecture in Nanotechnology to Enhance Quasi-Photosynthetic CO2 Absorption |
| title_sort | nanodeserts a conjecture in nanotechnology to enhance quasi photosynthetic co2 absorption |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5027879 |
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