Microplastics and nanoplastics in the marine-atmosphere environment

D Allen, S Allen, S Abbasi, A Baker… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
The discovery of atmospheric micro (nano) plastic transport and ocean–atmosphere
exchange points to a highly complex marine plastic cycle, with negative implications for …

Oxide–and silicate–water interfaces and their roles in technology and the environment

JL Bañuelos, E Borguet, GE Brown Jr… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Interfacial reactions drive all elemental cycling on Earth and play pivotal roles in human
activities such as agriculture, water purification, energy production and storage …

Mass transfer at the ocean–atmosphere interface: the role of wave breaking, droplets, and bubbles

L Deike - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Breaking waves modulate the transfer of energy, momentum, and mass between the ocean
and atmosphere, controlling processes critical to the climate system, from gas exchange of …

Natural, incidental, and engineered nanomaterials and their impacts on the Earth system

MF Hochella Jr, DW Mogk, J Ranville, IC Allen… - Science, 2019 - science.org
BACKGROUND Natural nanomaterials have always been abundant during Earth's formation
and throughout its evolution over the past 4.54 billion years. Incidental nanomaterials, which …

Toxic cyanobacteria: a growing threat to water and air quality

HE Plaas, HW Paerl - Environmental science & technology, 2020 - ACS Publications
The global expansion of harmful cyanobacterial blooms (CyanoHABs) poses an increasing
threat to public health. CyanoHABs are characterized by the production of toxic metabolites …

Overview of ice nucleating particles

ZA Kanji, LA Ladino, H Wex, Y Boose… - Meteorological …, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
Ice particle formation in tropospheric clouds significantly changes cloud radiative and
microphysical properties. Ice nucleation in the troposphere via homogeneous freezing …

Aerosol mixing state: Measurements, modeling, and impacts

N Riemer, AP Ault, M West, RL Craig… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric aerosols are complex mixtures of different chemical species, and individual
particles exist in many different shapes and morphologies. Together, these characteristics …

Improving our fundamental understanding of the role of aerosol− cloud interactions in the climate system

JH Seinfeld, C Bretherton, KS Carslaw, H Coe… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - pnas.org
The effect of an increase in atmospheric aerosol concentrations on the distribution and
radiative properties of Earth's clouds is the most uncertain component of the overall global …

Respiratory aerosols and droplets in the transmission of infectious diseases

ML Pöhlker, C Pöhlker, OO Krüger, JD Förster… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
Knowing the physicochemical properties of exhaled droplets and aerosol particles is a
prerequisite for a detailed mechanistic understanding and effective prevention of the …

Quantification and Mechanistic Investigation of the Spontaneous H2O2 Generation at the Interfaces of Salt-Containing Aqueous Droplets

M Angelaki, Y Carreira Mendes Da Silva… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
There is now much evidence that OH radicals and H2O2 are spontaneously generated at
the air–water interface of atmospheric aerosols. Here, we investigated the effect of halide …