[HTML][HTML] Carbonaceous aerosol composition in air masses influenced by large-scale biomass burning: a case study in northwestern Vietnam

DL Nguyen, H Czech, SM Pieber… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - acp.copernicus.org
We investigated concentrations of organic carbon (OC), elemental carbon (EC), and a wide
range of particle-bound organic compounds in daily sampled PM 2.5 at the remote Pha Din …

[HTML][HTML] Phenotypic and metabolomic characterization of 3D lung cell cultures exposed to airborne particulate matter from three air quality network stations in …

P Villasclaras, C Jaén, BL van Drooge, JO Grimalt… - Toxics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Air pollution constitutes an environmental problem that it is known to cause many serious
adverse effects on the cardiovascular and respiratory systems. The chemical …

Daytime measurements of bioaerosol simulants using a hyperspectral laser-induced fluorescence LIDAR for biosphere research

O Shoshanim, A Baratz - Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
A new compact home-built hyper-spectral laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) light detection
and ranging (LIDAR) system is presented that can detect and identify bioaerosol clouds in …

[HTML][HTML] Physicochemical properties of charcoal aerosols derived from biomass pyrolysis affect their ice-nucleating abilities at cirrus and mixed-phase cloud conditions

F Mahrt, C Rösch, K Gao, CH Dreimol… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - acp.copernicus.org
Atmospheric aerosol particles play a key role in air pollution, health, and climate. Particles
from biomass burning emissions are an important source of ambient aerosols, have …

Wildfire smoke toxicology and health

L Montrose, A Schuller, SM D'Evelyn… - … Fire, Smoke, and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
With wildfires increasing in activity in the western United States and around the world, there
is an immediate need to understand the toxic effects of the smoke. This chapter will provide …

[HTML][HTML] Toxicity mechanisms of biomass burning aerosols in in vitro hepatic steatosis models

M Pardo, C Li, A Jabali, LM Petrick, Z Ben-Ari… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a common chronic liver disease that contributes
to the global rise in liver-related morbidity and mortality. Wood tar (WT) aerosols are a …

[HTML][HTML] Application of natural carbon isotopes for emission source apportionment of carbonaceous particulate matter in urban atmosphere: A case study from Krakow …

M Zimnoch, L Samek, L Furman, K Styszko, A Skiba… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Successful mitigation of air pollution in large cities requires information about the structure of
emission sources and their contribution to total atmospheric load. The presented research …

On the Role of Starchy Grains in Ice Nucleation Processes

S Bose, D Pal, PA Ariya - ACS Food Science & Technology, 2024 - ACS Publications
Little is known about the role of starchy food on climate change processes like ice
nucleation. Here, we investigate the ice nucleation efficiency (INE) of eight different starchy …

[HTML][HTML] The toxic effect of water-soluble particulate pollutants from biomass burning on alveolar lung cells

Y Lima de Albuquerque, E Berger, C Li, M Pardo… - Atmosphere, 2021 - mdpi.com
In 2018, 3.8 million premature deaths were attributed to exposure to biomass burning
nanoparticles from wood combustion. The objective of this study was to investigate and …

[HTML][HTML] Cytotoxicity and chemical composition of women's personal PM 2.5 exposures from rural China

A Lai, J Baumgartner, JJ Schauer, Y Rudich… - Environmental science …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Personal exposure PM samples aid in determining the sources and chemical composition of
real-world exposures, particularly in settings with household air pollution. However, their use …