The persistence of smoke VOCs indoors: Partitioning, surface cleaning, and air cleaning in a smoke-contaminated house

J Li, MF Link, S Pandit, MH Webb, KJ Mayer… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Wildfires are increasing in frequency, raising concerns that smoke can permeate indoor
environments and expose people to chemical air contaminants. To study smoke …

Spatial and temporal scales of variability for indoor air constituents

PSJ Lakey, Y Won, D Shaw, FF Østerstrøm… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Historically air constituents have been assumed to be well mixed in indoor environments,
with single point measurements and box modeling representing a room or a house. Here we …

A review on environmental impacts of paints and strategies for producing eco-friendly-paints

P Akhter, A Arshad, M Hussain - International Journal of Environmental …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Painting the variety of surfaces have been practices from ancient times in domestic
and on industrial level. From a chemistry perspective, paints are widely used in homes …

Effective mass accommodation for partitioning of organic compounds into surface films with different viscosities

PSJ Lakey, BE Cummings, MS Waring… - … Science: Processes & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Indoor surfaces can act as reservoirs and reaction media influencing the concentrations and
type of species that people are exposed to indoors. Mass accommodation and partitioning …

Gas-Phase and Surface-Initiated Reactions of Household Bleach and Terpene-Containing Cleaning Products Yield Chlorination and Oxidation Products Adsorbed …

C Deeleepojananan, VH Grassian - Environmental Science & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The use of household bleach cleaning products results in emissions of highly oxidative
gaseous species, such as hypochlorous acid (HOCl) and chlorine (Cl2). These species …

Kinetic multi‐layer model of film formation, growth, and chemistry (KM‐FILM): Boundary layer processes, multi‐layer adsorption, bulk diffusion, and heterogeneous …

PSJ Lakey, CMA Eichler, C Wang, JC Little… - Indoor …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Large surface area‐to‐volume ratios indoors cause heterogeneous interactions to be
especially important. Semi‐volatile organic compounds can deposit on impermeable indoor …

Bauchemie: Environmental Perspective to Well-Building and Occupant Health

G Shams, M Rasoolzadeh - Naqshejahan-Basic Studies and …, 2023 - bsnt.modares.ac.ir
Aims: In the indoor space, the temperature and relative humidity are often controlled and
even without the use of heating and cooling systems, the temperature and relative humidity …

Molecular Orientation at the Squalene/Air Interface from Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy and Atomistic Modeling

M Von Domaros, Y Liu, JL Butman, E Perlt… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Human skin oils are significant scavengers of atmospheric oxidants in occupied indoor
environments, and squalene is a major ozone-active constituent. Here, we present a …

Surface-enhanced Raman sensing of semi-volatile organic compounds by plasmonic nanostructures

NH Ly, SJ Son, S Jang, C Lee, JI Lee, SW Joo - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Facile detection of indoor semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) is a critical issue to
raise an increasing concern to current researchers, since their emissions have impacted the …

Characterization of chemical transport in human skin and building material

H Wang, H Wang, K Wang, J Xiong, S Huang… - Journal of hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) are
ubiquitous in indoor environment. They can emit from source into air, and subsequently …