The understanding of soot formation in combustion processes and the optimization of
practical combustion systems require in situ measurement techniques that can provide …

Particulate emissions from motor vehicles have received increased attention over the past
two decades owing to associations observed between ambient particulate matter (PM) …

Atmospheric black carbon makes an important but poorly quantified contribution to the
warming of the global atmosphere. Laboratory and modelling studies have shown that the …

The Soot Particle Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (SP-AMS) was developed to measure the
chemical and physical properties of particles containing refractory black carbon (rBC). The …

Hygroscopicity is one of the most important physicochemical properties of aerosol particles
and also plays indispensable roles in many other scientific and technical fields. A myriad of …

Combustion and other high-temperature processes can produce solid aerosol nanoparticles
with complex morphologies, including fractal-like aggregates of primary particles …

Recent increases in marijuana use and legalization without adequate knowledge of the risks
necessitate the characterization of the billions of nanoparticles contained in each puff of …

The burner stabilized stagnation flame technique coupled with micro-orifice probe sampling
and mobility sizing has evolved into a useful tool for examining the evolution of the particle …

An inter-comparison study of instruments designed to measure the microphysical and optical
properties of soot particles was completed. The following mass-based instruments were …

Black carbon (BC) is now mainly of anthropogenic origin. It is the dominant light absorbing
component of atmospheric aerosols, playing an important role in the earth's radiative …