Multiphase environmental chemistry in the atmosphere edited by Sherri W. Hunt, Alexander Laskin and Sergey A. Nizkorodov

Includes bibliographical references and index

Editors' perspective on multiphase chemistry in the atmosphere -- Impact of multiphase chemistry on nanoparticle growth and composition -- Interfacial Criegee chemistry -- Tropospheric aqueous-phase OH oxidation chemistry : current understanding, uptake of highly oxidized organics and its effects -- Photochemistry in model aqueous-organic atmospheric condensed phases -- Organic nitrates and secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation from oxidation of biogenic volatile organic compounds -- Reactive uptake of ammonia by biogenic and anthropogenic organic aerosols -- Aqueous aerosol processing of glyoxal and methylglyoxal : recent measurements of uptake coefficients, SOA production, and brown carbon formation -- Aerosol acidity : direct measurement from a spectroscopic method -- Chemical morphology and reactivity at environmental interfaces -- Molecular corridors, volatility and particle phase state in secondary organic aerosols -- Directly probing the phase states and surface tension of individual submicrometer particles using atomic force microscopy -- Absorption spectroscopy of black and brown carbon aerosol -- Modeling heterogeneous oxidation of NOx, SO2 and hydrocarbons in the presence of mineral dust particles under various atmospheric environments -- Progress and problems in modeling chemical processing in cloud droplets and wet aerosol particles -- Detailed characterization of organic carbon from fire : capitalizing on analytical advances to improve atmospheric models -- Understanding composition, formation, and aging of organic aerosols in wildfire emissions via combined mountain top and airborne measurements -- Oxidative properties of ambient particulate matter- an assessment of the relative contributions from various aerosol components and their emission sources -- Insights on aerosol oxidative potential from measurements of particle size distributions -- Can reactions between ozone and organic constituents of ambient particulate matter influence effects on the cardiovascular system?

This book highlights new cross-disciplinary advances in aerosol chemistry that involve more than one phase, for example, unique chemical processes occurring on gas-solid and liquid-solid interfaces.