Nature Communications,
Journal Year:
2017,
Volume and Issue:
8(1)
Published: April 21, 2017
Secondary
organic
aerosols
(SOA)
are
a
large
source
of
uncertainty
in
our
current
understanding
climate
change
and
air
pollution.
The
phase
state
SOA
is
important
for
quantifying
their
effects
on
quality,
but
its
global
distribution
poorly
characterized.
We
developed
method
to
estimate
glass
transition
temperatures
based
the
molar
mass
molecular
O:C
ratio
components,
we
used
chemistry
model
EMAC
with
aerosol
module
ORACLE
predict
atmospheric
SOA.
For
planetary
boundary
layer,
simulations
indicate
that
mostly
liquid
tropical
polar
high
relative
humidity,
semi-solid
mid-latitudes
solid
over
dry
lands.
find
middle
upper
troposphere
should
be
glassy
state.
Thus,
slow
diffusion
water,
oxidants
molecules
could
kinetically
limit
gas-particle
interactions
free
troposphere,
promote
ice
nucleation
facilitate
long-range
transport
reactive
toxic
pollutants
embedded
Environmental Science & Technology,
Journal Year:
2017,
Volume and Issue:
51(23), P. 13545 - 13567
Published: Nov. 7, 2017
Poor
air
quality
is
globally
the
largest
environmental
health
risk.
Epidemiological
studies
have
uncovered
clear
relationships
of
gaseous
pollutants
and
particulate
matter
(PM)
with
adverse
outcomes,
including
mortality
by
cardiovascular
respiratory
diseases.
Studies
impacts
aerosols
are
highly
multidisciplinary
a
broad
range
scales
in
space
time.
We
assess
recent
advances
future
challenges
regarding
aerosol
effects
on
from
molecular
to
global
through
epidemiological
studies,
field
measurements,
health-related
properties
PM,
multiphase
interactions
oxidants
PM
upon
deposition.
Global
modeling
combined
exposure-response
functions
indicates
that
ambient
pollution
causes
more
than
four
million
premature
deaths
per
year.
usually
refer
mass
concentrations,
but
some
may
relate
specific
constituents
such
as
bioaerosols,
polycyclic
aromatic
compounds,
transition
metals.
Various
analytical
techniques
cellular
assays
applied
redox
activity
formation
reactive
oxygen
species.
Multiphase
chemical
lung
antioxidants
atmospheric
crucial
mechanistic
understanding
oxidative
stress
The
role
distinct
components
needs
be
clarified
integrated
research
various
spatiotemporal
for
better
evaluation
mitigation
public
Anthropocene.
Environmental Research Letters,
Journal Year:
2018,
Volume and Issue:
13(10), P. 103003 - 103003
Published: Sept. 6, 2018
This
review
focuses
on
the
observed
characteristics
of
atmospheric
new
particle
formation
(NPF)
in
different
environments
global
troposphere.
After
a
short
introduction,
we
will
present
theoretical
background
that
discusses
methods
used
to
analyze
measurement
data
NPF
and
associated
terminology.
We
update
our
current
understanding
regional
NPF,
i.e.
taking
simultaneously
place
over
large
spatial
scales,
complement
with
full
reported
growth
rates
during
events.
shortly
at
sub-regional
scales.
Since
newly-formed
particles
into
larger
sizes
is
great
interest,
briefly
discuss
observation-based
which
gaseous
compounds
contribute
particles,
what
implications
this
have
cloud
condensation
nuclei
formation.
finish
summary
main
findings
future
outlook
outlines
remaining
research
questions
needs
for
additional
measurements.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
Journal Year:
2015,
Volume and Issue:
112(23), P. 7123 - 7128
Published: May 26, 2015
Significance
Extremely
low
volatility
organic
compounds
(ELVOC)
are
suggested
to
promote
aerosol
particle
formation
and
cloud
condensation
nuclei
(CCN)
production
in
the
atmosphere.
We
show
that
capability
of
biogenic
VOC
(BVOC)
produce
ELVOC
depends
strongly
on
their
chemical
structure
relative
oxidant
levels.
BVOC
with
an
endocyclic
double
bond,
representative
emissions
from,
e.g.,
boreal
forests,
efficiently
from
ozonolysis.
Compounds
exocyclic
bonds
or
acyclic
including
isoprene,
emission
tropics,
minor
quantities
ELVOC,
role
OH
radical
oxidation
is
relatively
larger.
Implementing
these
findings
into
a
global
modeling
framework
shows
detailed
assessment
pathways
crucial
for
understanding
secondary
atmospheric
CCN
formation.
Science,
Journal Year:
2018,
Volume and Issue:
361(6406), P. 997 - 1000
Published: Sept. 6, 2018
Mystery
surrounds
the
transition
from
gas-phase
hydrocarbon
precursors
to
terrestrial
soot
and
interstellar
dust,
which
are
carbonaceous
particles
formed
under
similar
conditions.
Although
polycyclic
aromatic
hydrocarbons
(PAHs)
known
high-temperature
carbonaceous-particle
formation,
molecular
pathways
that
initiate
particle
formation
unknown.
We
present
experimental
theoretical
evidence
for
rapid
clustering-reaction
involving
radicals
with
extended
conjugation.
These
react
other
species
form
covalently
bound
complexes
promote
further
growth
clustering
by
regenerating
resonance-stabilized
through
low-barrier
hydrogen-abstraction
hydrogen-ejection
reactions.
Such
radical-chain
reaction
may
lead
clusters
of
PAHs
would
otherwise
be
too
small
condense
at
high
temperatures,
thus
providing
key
mechanistic
steps
surface
chemisorption.
Science,
Journal Year:
2016,
Volume and Issue:
352(6289), P. 1109 - 1112
Published: May 26, 2016
From
neutral
to
new
Many
of
the
particles
in
troposphere
are
formed
situ,
but
what
fraction
all
tropospheric
do
they
constitute
and
how
exactly
made?
Bianchi
et
al.
report
results
from
a
high-altitude
research
station.
Roughly
half
were
newly
by
condensation
highly
oxygenated
multifunctional
compounds.
A
combination
laboratory
results,
field
measurements,
model
calculations
revealed
that
nucleation
is
more
than
10
times
faster
ion-induced
nucleation,
particle
growth
rates
size-dependent,
formation
occurs
during
limited
time
window.
Science
,
this
issue
p.
1109
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
Journal Year:
2014,
Volume and Issue:
111(16), P. 5802 - 5807
Published: April 7, 2014
Secondary
organic
aerosol
(SOA)
constitutes
a
major
fraction
of
submicrometer
atmospheric
particulate
matter.
Quantitative
simulation
SOA
within
air-quality
and
climate
models--and
its
resulting
impacts--depends
on
the
translation
formation
observed
in
laboratory
chambers
into
robust
parameterizations.
Worldwide
data
have
been
accumulating
indicating
that
model
predictions
are
substantially
lower
than
ambient
observations.
Although
possible
explanations
for
this
mismatch
advanced,
none
has
addressed
chamber
themselves.
Losses
particles
to
walls
routinely
accounted
for,
but
there
little
evaluation
effects
losses
semivolatile
vapors
walls.
Here,
we
experimentally
demonstrate
such
vapor
can
lead
underestimated
formation,
by
factors
as
much
4.
Accounting
clear
potential
bring
observations
levels
closer
agreement.