Multiphase Environmental Chemistry in the Atmosphere

Sherri W. Hunt received a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Georgia and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Minnesota. After a postdoctoral research position with Barbara Finlayson-Pitts at University of California, Irvine, Hunt spent two years as a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow. In 2006, she joined the United States Environmental Protection Agency as a physical scientist in the Office of Research and Development. Her work involves research planning and coordination for agency scientists and the extramural STAR grants program. Research expertise and topics include understanding, monitoring, and modeling air pollution and its health effects.

Alexander Laskin received his undergraduate degree from the Polytechnical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1991 in Physics, and Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, in 1998. Following postdoctoral research appointments at the University of Delaware, Princeton University, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), he was a senior research scientist at PNNL. In 2017, he joined Purdue University as a Professor of Chemistry. His present and past research interests include physical and analytical chemistry of aerosols, environmental and atmospheric effects of aerosols, chemical imaging and molecular level studies of aerosols, microspectroscopy and high-resolution mass spectrometry of aerosols, combustion-related aerosols, combustion chemistry, and chemical kinetics.

Sergey A. Nizkorodov received his undergraduate degree in biochemistry from Novosibirsk State University and graduate degree in physical chemistry from Basel University. After doing postdoctoral research at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and in atmospheric chemistry at the California Institute of Technology, he joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine (UCI). His primary areas of expertise are molecular spectroscopy, high-resolution mass spectrometry, chemical reaction dynamics, and photochemistry.

Preface

1. Editors' Perspective on Multiphase Chemistry in the Atmosphere

Measuring Multiphase Chemistry
2. Impact of Multiphase Chemistry on Nanoparticle Growth and Composition
3. Interfacial Criegee Chemistry
4. Tropospheric Aqueous-Phase OH Oxidation Chemistry: Current Understanding, Uptake of Highly Oxidized Organics and Its Effects
5. Photochemistry in Model Aqueous-Organic Atmospheric Condensed Phases
6. Organic Nitrates and Secondary Organic Aerosol (SOA) Formation from Oxidation of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds
7. Reactive Uptake of Ammonia by Biogenic and Anthropogenic Organic Aerosols
8. Aqueous Aerosol Processing of Glyoxal and Methylglyoxal: Recent Measurements of Uptake Coefficients, SOA Production, and Brown Carbon Formation

Physical Properties Impacting Multiphase Chemistry
9. Aerosol Acidity: Direct Measurement from a Spectroscopic Method
10. Chemical Morphology and Reactivity at Environmental Interfaces
11. Molecular Corridors, Volatility and Particle Phase State in Secondary Organic Aerosols
12. Directly Probing the Phase States and Surface Tension of Individual Submicrometer Particles Using Atomic Force Microscopy
13. Molecular Characterization of Atmospheric Brown Carbon
14. Absorption Spectroscopy of Black and Brown Carbon Aerosol

Modeling Multiphase Chemistry
15. Modeling Heterogeneous Oxidation of NOx, SO2 and Hydrocarbons in the Presence of Mineral Dust Particles under Various Atmospheric Environments
16. Progress and Problems in Modeling Chemical Processing in Cloud Droplets and Wet Aerosol Particles

Chemistry and Characterization of Fires
17. Detailed Characterization of Organic Carbon from Fire: Capitalizing on Analytical Advances To Improve Atmospheric Models
18. Understanding Composition, Formation, and Aging of Organic Aerosols in Wildfire Emissions via Combined Mountain Top and Airborne Measurements

Toxicity and Impacts of Aerosols
19. Oxidative Properties of Ambient Particulate Matter - An Assessment of the Relative Contributions from Various Aerosol Components and Their Emission Sources
20. Insights on Aerosol Oxidative Potential from Measurements of Particle Size Distributions
21. Can Reactions between Ozone and Organic Constituents of Ambient Particulate Matter Influence Effects on the Cardiovascular System?

Editors' Biographies
Author Index
Subject Index