Lung deposition analyses of inhaled toxic aerosols in conventional and less harmful cigarette smoke: a review

C Kleinstreuer, Y Feng - … journal of environmental research and public …, 2013 - mdpi.com
Inhaled toxic aerosols of conventional cigarette smoke may impact not only the health of
smokers, but also those exposed to second-stream smoke, especially children. Thus, less …

Measurements of the sensitivity of aerosol hygroscopicity and the κ parameter to the O/C ratio

AMJ Rickards, REH Miles, JF Davies… - The Journal of …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We report measurements of the subsaturated hygroscopic growth of aerosol particles
composed of single organic components of varying oxygen-to-carbon ratio up to relative …

Fourteen months of on-line measurements of the non-refractory submicron aerosol at the Jungfraujoch (3580 m asl)–chemical composition, origins and organic …

R Fröhlich, MJ Cubison, JG Slowik… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - acp.copernicus.org
Chemically resolved (organic, nitrate, sulfate, ammonium) data of non-refractory submicron
(NR-PM 1) aerosol from the first long-term deployment (27 July 2012 to 02 October 2013) of …

Temporal evolution of ultrafine particles and of alveolar deposited surface area from main indoor combustion and non-combustion sources in a model room

M Manigrasso, M Vitali, C Protano, P Avino - Science of the total …, 2017 - Elsevier
Aerosol number size distributions, PM mass concentrations, alveolar deposited surface
areas (ADSAs) and VOC concentrations were measured in a model room when aerosol was …

Cigarette smoke destabilizes NLRP3 protein by promoting its ubiquitination

SH Han, JA Jerome, AD Gregory, RK Mallampalli - Respiratory research, 2017 - Springer
Background Cigarette smoke suppresses innate immunity, making smokers more
susceptible to infection. The NLRP3 inflammasome is a multi-protein complex that releases …

Rapid evolution of indoor primary and secondary organic aerosols from human activities

L Yang, B You, W Zhou, W Xu, Z Li, Z Zhang… - Building and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding the evolution of organic aerosols (OA) from daily human activities is crucial
for mitigating indoor air pollution. Here we characterized the changes in sources and …

Radioactivity of cigarettes and the importance of 210Po and thorium isotopes for radiation dose assessment due to smoking

D Kubalek, G Serša, M Štrok, L Benedik… - Journal of Environmental …, 2016 - Elsevier
Tobacco and tobacco smoke are very complex mixtures. In addition to various chemical and
organic compounds they also contain natural radioactive elements (radionuclides). In this …

Time-resolved online analysis of the gas-and particulate-phase of cigarette smoke generated by a heated tobacco product using vacuum ultraviolet photoionization …

Z Wen, X Gu, X Tang, X Li, Y Pang, Q Hu, J Wang… - Talanta, 2022 - Elsevier
We present a vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) lamp-based photoionization time-of-flight (TOF)
mass spectrometer coupled with a capillary inlet and an aerodynamic lens to online analyze …

Soft ionization: improving indoor air quality

F Farahi - IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article we report two applications of a subcategory of air cleaning devices based on
soft ionization that do not cause molecular fragmentation. A system that includes two …

Operando gas-and particle-phase measurements of combustion cigarette smoke aerosols by vacuum ultraviolet photoionization mass spectrometry

F Zhao, Z Wen, X Gu, W Zhang, X Tang - Journal of Aerosol Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Cigarette smoke is a dynamically changing aerosol system and the operando measurement
of its complex chemical compositions is challenging. In this work, the gas-and particle-phase …