JU Yi-wen1, SUN Yan2, WAN Quan3, LU Shuang-fang4, HE Hong-ping5, WU Jian-guang6, ZHANG Wen-jing1, WANG Guo-chang1, HUANG Cheng1
1. College of Earth Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of Computational Geodynamics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;
2. School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China;
3. Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Ore Deposit of Geochemistry, Guiyang 550081, China;
4. Research Institute of Unconventional Petroleum and Renewable Energy, Chinese University of Petroleum(Huadong), Qingdao Shandong 266580, China;
5. Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China;
6. China United Coalbed Methane Co., Ltd., Beijing 100011, China
Abstract: Nanoscience and technology is the science of studying substance characteristics with the grain size ranging from 0.1 nm to 100 nm. Nano-particles are at the nano scale, which possess surface and interface effect, small size effect, macroscopic quantum tunneling and quantum size effect and other special physical and chemical properties. Nano science and technology have been introduced to geosciences, and have made some achievements in the field of mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry, structural geology, energy geology and the geology of mineral deposits. However, the associated researches are still lack of systematic theory of nanogeology. Based on the summarization of predecessors' academic achievements and combined with the authors' own work in ultra-microscopic, the concept of nanogeology is further proposed. Nanogeology is a science, taking solid matters in the earth as research target, to unclose the nano-scale information of nano-particles and nano pores and their relationship with the geological phenomenon and especially the genetic types during the geological processes on the basis of nano science and geology and by the nanotechnology and geological tools. This paper has analyzed systematically the various branches formed by the combination between nanotechnology and geology: nano-mineralogy, nano-petrology, nano-geochemistry, nano-structural geology, nano-energy geology, nano-ore deposit formation, nano-earthquake geology and nano-environmental geology. The significant and frontier science problems were clarified in nano-geology and nano-scale hydrocarbon accumulation and metallogenesis field through a comprehensive study, and consequently its development trend was discussed further. Thus, it was pointed out, the revolutionary challenges will be brought about by the rise and development of nanogeology.
Keywords: nanogeology nano science and technology geology science frontier development trend
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Bulletin of Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry Vol.35, No.1, 2016, page 1-20
