Publications related to Particulate pollution

Overview of the Alaskan Layered Pollution and Chemical Analysis (ALPACA) Field Experiment

Athanasios Nenes, Julia Schmale, Andrea Baccarini, Roman Pohorsky, Sukriti Kapur

The Alaskan Layered Pollution And Chemical Analysis (ALPACA) field experiment was a collaborative study designed to improve understanding of pollution sources and chemical processes during winter (cold climate and low-photochemical activity), to investigat ...

2024

Influence of Ventilation on Formation and Growth of 1-20 nm Particles via Ozone-Human Chemistry

Dusan Licina, Shen Yang, Marouane Merizak, Meixia Zhang

Ozone reaction with human surfaces is an important source of ultrafine particles indoors. However, 1-20 nm particles generated from ozone-human chemistry, which mark the first step of particle formation and growth, remain understudied. Ventilation and indo ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Inhalation of Microplastics—A Toxicological Complexity

Florian Frédéric Vincent Breider, Myriam Borgatta

Humans are chronically exposed to airborne microplastics (MPs) by inhalation. Various types of polymer particles have been detected in lung samples, which could pose a threat to human health. Inhalation toxicological studies are crucial for assessing the e ...

2024

Development of Hyphenated Analytical Techniques using spICP-MS for Online Characterization of Metallic Nanoparticles in Aerosols

Tianyu Cen

The presence of metallic nanoparticles (NPs) in aerosols has raised concern about their fate in the environment through natural processes and anthropological activities. The state-of-the-art technologies for direct aerosol characterization cannot reach rea ...

EPFL2024

Size-resolved inhalation intake fractions for particles released from human activities in residential indoor environments

Dusan Licina, Marouane Merizak

Inhalation exposure to elevated concentrations of airborne particulate matter is a public health concern. Assessment of exposure can be enhanced through better knowledge of source-receptor relationships, which can be characterized through the inhalation in ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

Pollution mask for the continuous corrected particle number concentration data in 1 min time resolution measured in the Swiss aerosol container using a whole air inlet during MOSAiC 2019/2020

Julia Schmale, Andrea Baccarini, Ivo Fabio Beck, Hélène Paule Angot

This dataset contains particle number concentrations and a pollution flag in 1 min time resolution. It is derived by the pollution detection algorithm (PDA, doi:10.5281/zenodo.5761101) based on the corrected particle number concentration data of the CPC377 ...

Zenodo2023

What happens to biomass burning-emitted particles in the ocean? A laboratory experimental approach based on their tracers

Christos Panagiotopoulos

Wildfires, controlled burns, and biofuel combustion (biomass burning or BB) are major contributors to particulate matter in the atmosphere and thus have an impact on climate, human health, and ecosystems. Once emitted, the particulate matter derived from B ...

Elsevier2023

Rapid transformation of wildfire emissions to harmful background aerosol

Athanasios Nenes, Spyros Pandis

Wildfires are a significant source of organic aerosol during summer, with major impacts on air quality and climate. However, studies in Europe suggest a surprisingly low (less than 10%) contribution of biomass burning organic aerosol to average summertime ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Assessment of Monitoring Strategies for Inhalation Exposure and Occupancy in Office Environments

Seoyeon Yun

Given people's significant time spent indoors, ensuring good indoor air quality (IAQ) is essential because it significantly influences occupants' health and productivity. Office buildings consume about 50% of commercial building energy and 18% of total bui ...

EPFL2023

Energy inequality and air pollution nexus in India

Arindam Roy

Energy usage, inequality, and their impacts are deeply intertwined, especially in India. Every year, cooking using biomass-based solid fuel usage causes death to tens of thousands of Indians, specifically, economically unprivileged people. Solid fuel burni ...

2023

Repeated Human Exposure to Semivolatile Organic Compounds by Inhalation: Novel Protocol for a Nonrandomized Study

Florian Frédéric Vincent Breider, Dominique Grandjean, Guillaume Suarez, Myriam Borgatta

Background: Semivolatile organic compounds (SVOCs) comprise several different chemical families used mainly as additives in many everyday products. SVOCs can be released into the air as aerosols and deposit on particulate matter during use by dispersion, e ...

2023

Integrated Aerodynamic/Electrochemical Microsystem for Collection and Detection of Nanogram-level Airborne Bioaccessible Metals

Christian Ludwig, Jian Wang, Tianyu Cen, Jiukai Tang

The soluble fraction of aerosol particulate matter containing trace metals has the potential to engender toxicity and exacerbate the adverse health effects of particulate matter. In this study, an inertial-impaction-based fluidic chip integrated with elect ...

2022

Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Oxidative Potential of Particulate Matter: Case of Athens (Greece)

Athanasios Nenes

This work evaluates the aerosol oxidative potential (OP) and its changes from modified air pollution emissions during the COVID-19 lockdown period in 2020, with the intent of elucidating the contribution of aerosol sources and related components to aerosol ...

MDPI2022

Chemical characterization of organic aerosols with a focus on biomass burning and mid-infrared spectroscopy

Amir Yazdani

Aerosols play a significant role in the atmosphere through affecting the radiative budget, cloud condensation nuclei activity, and visibility. They also cause adverse health effects leading to premature deaths. A major fraction of aerosols is organic matte ...

EPFL2022

Pollution mask for the continuous corrected particle number concentration data in 1 min resolution, measured in the Swiss aerosol container during MOSAiC 2019/2020

Julia Schmale, Ivo Fabio Beck, Andrea Baccarini, Hélène Paule Angot

This dataset contains a pollution flag in 1 min time resolution. It is derived by the pollution detection algorithm (PDA) based on the corrected particle number concentration data (DOI upcoming) measured during the year long MOSAiC expedition from October ...

Zenodo2022

Observed coupling between air mass history, secondary growth of nucleation mode particles and aerosol pollution levels in Beijing

Lubna Dada, Yu Fu, François Bianchi, Jingjing Jiang

Atmospheric aerosols have significant effects on the climate and on human health. New particle formation (NPF) is globally an important source of aerosols but its relevance especially towards aerosol mass loadings in highly polluted regions is still contro ...

2022

Outdoor PM2.5 air filtration: optimising indoor air quality and energy

Dusan Licina, Evangelos Belias

Human inhalation exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5), including the PM2.5 of outdoor origin, predominantly occurs indoors. To limit outdoor PM2.5 penetration into buildings, ventilation standards often require the filtration of outdoor air with a m ...

2022

Secondary aerosol formation during the dark oxidation of residential biomass burning emissions

Athanasios Nenes, Spyros Pandis

Particulate matter from biomass burning emissions affects air quality, ecosystems and climate; however, quantifying these effects requires that the connection between primary emissions and secondary aerosol production is firmly established. We performed at ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Equal abundance of summertime natural and wintertime anthropogenic Arctic organic aerosols

Julia Schmale, Imad El Haddad, Houssni Lamkaddam, Pragati Rai

Aerosols play an important yet uncertain role in modulating the radiation balance of the sensitive Arctic atmosphere. Organic aerosol is one of the most abundant, yet least understood, fractions of the Arctic aerosol mass. Here we use data from eight obser ...

2022

Longitudinal assessment of personal air pollution clouds in ten home and office environments

Dusan Licina, Maria Viviana Gonzalez Serrano

Elevated exposure to indoor air pollution is associated with negative human health and well-being outcomes. Inhalation exposure studies commonly rely on stationary monitors in combination with human time-activity patterns; however, this method is susceptib ...

WILEY2022