"... is it possible to break down a natural composite (bone, shale, concrete) to a scale where mechanical properties do not change from one specimen to another, and 'nanoengineer' its behavior from the nanoscale to the macroscale of large scale engineering applications?"
About GeoGenome™
GeoGenome™ of sedimentary rocks and earth material is a basis for quantifiable mechanical classification based on Nanotechnology, Genetic Sequencing, Earth material history
GeoGenome™ is an upscaling for geoengineering applications similar to human genome
The identification of the fundamental physico-chemical functional units in shales (geogenes)
Determination of the relative positions of these fundamental units (geogene mapping and/or geogene sequencing)
Ascribe thermo-chemo-mechano behaviors to both these fundamental units and their physical 3-D arrangement (geogene expression), and describe interactions between fundamental particles to build a macroscopic behavior.
The Human Genome Project involves physical and genetic mapping of each human chromosome at increasingly finer resolution.
This approach is being used in the development of high performance clay-polymer nanomaterials.
GeoGenome™ Research Team PoroMechanics Institute University of Oklahoma
Larry W. Brummett/ONEOK Chair and Professor,
Mewbourne School of Petroleum & Geological Engineering,
School of Geology & Geophysics, and Sarkeys Energy Center.
Adjunct Professor, School of Civil Engineering & Environmental Science.
