New Review on Methods for Atmospheric Aerosol Chemistry Research

A new review from the Ault Group (Prof. Ault and Dr. Jessica Axson) is focused on advances in atmospheric aerosol instrumentation in the past 5 years. The title is " Atmospheric Aerosol Chemistry: Spectroscopic and Microscopic Advances" and it was included in Analytical Chemistry's "Fundamental and Applied Reviews in Analytical Chemistry 2017". Instrumentation used for aerosol analysis ranging from electron microscopy to Raman microspectroscopy to optical tweezers and many more are covered. The motivation for using these methods, such as physicochemical mixing state as well as instrumental size ranges are discussed.

Prof. Ault receives CAREER grant from National Science Foundation

Prof. Ault was recently awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation entitled " CAREER: Molecular Studies of Phase Separations and Internal Structure in Individual Particles" This grant will focus on understanding the molecular level processes occurring within complex atmospheric aerosol particles. The research will couple new instrumentation (atomic force microscopy with infrared - AFM-IR) with existing instrumentation used by the Ault Group (Raman microspectroscopy and electron microscopy). New information about how aerosols change as a function of relative humidity (RH) with respect to viscosity and phases separations will be determined for particles of different sizes and compositions. Learn more at NSF.gov

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1654149