Recent advances in understanding secondary organic aerosol: Implications for global climate forcing

M Shrivastava, CD Cappa, J Fan… - Reviews of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic emissions and land use changes have modified atmospheric aerosol
concentrations and size distributions over time. Understanding preindustrial conditions and …

The viscosity of atmospherically relevant organic particles

JP Reid, AK Bertram, DO Topping, A Laskin… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The importance of organic aerosol particles in the environment has been long established,
influencing cloud formation and lifetime, absorbing and scattering sunlight, affecting …

Predicting the glass transition temperature and viscosity of secondary organic material using molecular composition

WSW DeRieux, Y Li, P Lin, J Laskin… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - acp.copernicus.org
Secondary organic aerosol (SOA) accounts for a large fraction of submicron particles in the
atmosphere. SOA can occur in amorphous solid or semi-solid phase states depending on …

Predictions of the glass transition temperature and viscosity of organic aerosols from volatility distributions

Y Li, DA Day, H Stark, JL Jimenez… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
Volatility and viscosity are important properties of organic aerosols (OA), affecting aerosol
processes such as formation, evolution, and partitioning of OA. Volatility distributions of …

Influence of functional groups on the viscosity of organic aerosol

NE Rothfuss, MD Petters - Environmental science & technology, 2017 - ACS Publications
Organic aerosols can exist in highly viscous or glassy phase states. A viscosity database for
organic compounds with atmospherically relevant functional groups is compiled and …

Aerosol optical tweezers constrain the morphology evolution of liquid-liquid phase-separated atmospheric particles

K Gorkowski, NM Donahue, RC Sullivan - Chem, 2020 - cell.com
Chemical models of atmospheric particles are vital in understanding the role of aerosol
particles in atmospheric chemistry, air pollution, human health, and climate change …

Humidity-dependent viscosity of secondary organic aerosol from ozonolysis of β-caryophyllene: Measurements, predictions, and implications

AM Maclean, NR Smith, Y Li, Y Huang… - ACS Earth and Space …, 2021 - ACS Publications
To predict important secondary organic aerosol (SOA) properties, information on viscosity or
diffusion rates within SOA is needed. Ozonolysis of β-caryophyllene is an important SOA …

Lability of secondary organic particulate matter

P Liu, YJ Li, Y Wang, MK Gilles… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
The energy flows in Earth's natural and modified climate systems are strongly influenced by
the concentrations of atmospheric particulate matter (PM). For predictions of concentration …

Observations and implications of liquid–liquid phase separation at high relative humidities in secondary organic material produced by α-pinene ozonolysis without …

L Renbaum-Wolff, M Song, C Marcolli… - Atmospheric …, 2016 - acp.copernicus.org
Particles consisting of secondary organic material (SOM) are abundant in the atmosphere.
To predict the role of these particles in climate, visibility and atmospheric chemistry …

Predicting secondary organic aerosol phase state and viscosity and its effect on multiphase chemistry in a regional-scale air quality model

R Schmedding, QZ Rasool, Y Zhang… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - acp.copernicus.org
Atmospheric aerosols are a significant public health hazard and have substantial impacts on
the climate. Secondary organic aerosols (SOAs) have been shown to phase separate into a …