1. INTRODUCTION Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is a relatively inexpensive, nontoxic, and easy to
handle material, which is of great interest, as evidenced by the wide number of applications …

Organic species are an important but poorly characterized constituent of airborne particulate
matter. A quantitative understanding of the organic fraction of particles (organic aerosol, OA) …

The application of mass spectrometric techniques to the real‐time measurement and
characterization of aerosols represents a significant advance in the field of atmospheric …

The Earth's atmosphere offers a striking contrast with other known planets by its rich organic
composition, which results almost exclusively from the presence of life on the planet. About …

Many of the significant advances in our understanding of atmospheric particles can be
attributed to the application of mass spectrometry. Mass spectrometry provides high …

Long considered a niche technique, SPI is now enjoying more visibility. Hanley of the
University of Illinois Chicago and Zimmermann of the University of Rostock (Germany) …

Aerosols represent an important component of the Earth's atmosphere. Because aerosols
are composed of solid and liquid particles of varying chemical complexity, size, and phase …

The roles of aliphatic and aromatic chemical species in soot mass growth were studied in a
burner-stabilized premixed ethylene–oxygen–argon flame at equivalence ratio ϕ= 2.5 …

Understanding the molecular composition and fundamental chemical transformations of
organic aerosols (OA) during their formation and aging is both a major challenge and the …

Near-threshold absolute photoionization and dissociative photoionization cross-sections for
photon energies from 9.7 to 11.75 eV are presented for 30 combustion intermediates …