Nanodeserts: A Conjecture in Nanotechnology to Enhance Quasi-Photosynthetic CO₂Absorption

Abstract

This paper advances “nanodeserts” as a conjecture on the possibility of developing the hierarchical structured polymeric nanomaterials for enhancing abiotic CO2fixation in the soil-groundwater system beneath deserts (termed as quasi-photosynthetic CO2absorption). 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 CO2absorption to expand insights to the long-sought missing CO2sink 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 CO2absorption, but also aim to present to the desert researchers a better understanding of the footprints of abiotic CO2transport, 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 CO2release above the deserts surface and highlighting the abiotic CO2fixation beneath deserts. This may be no longer a novelty in the future.

Introducing a Chaotic Component in the Control System of Soil Respiration

“…is suggests us to develop a differential equation to describe the hypothetical system kinetics. Since the absorbed CO 2 is hypothetically dissolved in saline aquifers, we characterized the dynamics of CO 2 concentration in the groundwater-soil system in [18,19] as a simple form of Riccati equation. Analytic solutions of the equation under some necessary and sufficient conditions were also presented.…”

“…Provide that outflow = inflow and assume that outflow after the inflow is uniformly mixed with the groundwater unitV. As seen in reference [18], the quality conversation law implies that 6 Complexity…”

“…Finally, considering the restricting effect of current DIC, which is characterized as R − λD(t), equation (4) can be further improved as [18]…”