Anthropogenic emissions and land use changes have modified atmospheric aerosol
concentrations and size distributions over time. Understanding preindustrial conditions and …

Severe haze events with exceedingly high-levels of fine aerosols occur frequently over the
past decades in the North China Plain (NCP), exerting profound impacts on human health …

Secondary organic aerosols (SOA) are a large source of uncertainty in our current
understanding of climate change and air pollution. The phase state of SOA is important for …

Predicting the formation of ice in the atmosphere presents one of the great challenges in
physical sciences with important implications for the chemistry and composition of the …

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 …

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 …

Hygroscopic growth and cloud condensation nuclei activation are key processes for
accurately modeling the climate impacts of organic particulate matter. Nevertheless, the …

Volatility and viscosity are important properties of organic aerosols (OA), affecting aerosol
processes such as formation, evolution, and partitioning of OA. Volatility distributions of …

Chemical models of atmospheric particles are vital in understanding the role of aerosol
particles in atmospheric chemistry, air pollution, human health, and climate change …

Low bulk diffusivity inside viscous semisolid atmospheric secondary organic aerosol (SOA)
can prolong equilibration time scale, but its broader impacts on aerosol growth and size …