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Molecular composition of organic aerosols at urban background and road tunnel sites using ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry

Overview of attention for article published in Faraday Discussions of the Chemical Society, January 2016
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Title
Molecular composition of organic aerosols at urban background and road tunnel sites using ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry
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Faraday Discussions of the Chemical Society, January 2016
DOI 10.1039/c5fd00206k
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Haijie Tong, Ivan Kourtchev, Pallavi Pant, Ian J. Keyte, Ian P. O'Connor, John C. Wenger, Francis D. Pope, Roy M. Harrison, Markus Kalberer

Abstract

Organic aerosol composition in the urban atmosphere is highly complex and strongly influenced by vehicular emissions which vary according to the make-up of the vehicle fleet. Normalized test measurements do not necessarily reflect real-world emission profiles and road tunnels are therefore ideal locations to characterise realistic traffic particle emissions with minimal interference from other particle sources and from atmospheric aging processes affecting their composition. In the current study, the composition of fine particles (diameter ≤2.5 μm) at an urban background site (Elms Road Observatory Site) and a road tunnel (Queensway) in Birmingham, UK, were analysed with direct infusion, nano-electrospray ionisation ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry (UHRMS). The overall particle composition at these two sites is compared with an industrial harbour site in Cork, Ireland, with special emphasis on oxidised mono-aromatics, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and nitro-aromatics. Different classification criteria, such as double bond equivalents, aromaticity index and aromaticity equivalent are used and compared to assess the fraction of aromatic components in the approximately one thousand oxidized organic compounds at the different sampling locations.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 2%
Unknown 42 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 23%
Researcher 9 21%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 7%
Student > Postgraduate 3 7%
Student > Master 3 7%
Other 6 14%
Unknown 9 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Chemistry 15 35%
Environmental Science 6 14%
Engineering 2 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 2%
Physics and Astronomy 1 2%
Other 3 7%
Unknown 15 35%
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#16,063,069
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#922
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