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An Aerogel-Based Light-Driven Knudsen Pump Approaching Complete Passive Capturing of Airborne Particles in Wide Size Ranges

Aerosol sampling stands as an essential step in air quality monitoring and characterization. Active sampling provides accurate aerosol determination, while passive sampling offers cost-effective and power supply-free design. However, passive sampling is su ...

Elsevier BV2025

Dilution versus fractionation: Separation technologies hyphenated with spICP-MS for characterizing metallic nanoparticles in aerosols

Andrea Testino, Christian Ludwig, Jian Wang, Tianyu Cen

The presence of metal salts has become one of the major limitations for measuring metallic nanoparticles (NPs) in single particle inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (spICP-MS). Their presence generates a background signal in spICP-MS that can be ...

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

Airborne metal nanoparticles released by azides detonation: determination and potential public exposure

Andrea Testino, Christian Ludwig, Tianyu Cen

Metal azides are highly energetic materials that release a large amount of gas upon detonation. They also release metal particles, generating an aerosol. The most common azide is sodium azide (NaN3), which is used nowadays in car airbags. If the decomposit ...

Springer Nature2024

Rotating disk diluter hyphenated with single particle ICP-MS as an online dilution and sampling platform for metallic nanoparticles characterization in ambient aerosol

Andrea Testino, Christian Ludwig, Tianyu Cen

The application of single particle inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (spICP-MS) for online metallic nanoparticles (NPs) characterization in ambient aerosol remains a challenge. In this study, a hyphenated setup consisting of a rotating disk dilu ...

2024

Aerosol-into-liquid capture and detection of atmospheric soluble metals across the gas–liquid interface using Janus-membrane electrodes

Christian Ludwig, Jian Wang, Min Gao, Tianyu Cen

The soluble fraction of atmospheric transition metals is particularly associated with health effects such as reactive oxygen species compared to total metals. However, direct measurements of the soluble fraction are restricted to sampling and detection uni ...

2023

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

Christian Ludwig, Jian Wang, Jiukai Tang, Tianyu Cen

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

An elution-based method for estimating efficiencies of aerosol collection devices not affected by their pressure drops

Christian Ludwig, Jian Wang, Jiukai Tang, Tianyu Cen

2022