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A Re-Evaluation on the Atmospheric Significance of Octanal Vapor Uptake by Acidic Particles: Roles of Particle Acidity and Gas-Phase Octanal Concentration

journal article; published in Aerosol Science and Technology in 2008

A comparative study of the organic matter in PM2.5 from three Chinese megacities in three different climatic zones

article

A field measurement based scaling approach for quantification of major ions, organic carbon, and elemental carbon using a single particle aerosol mass spectrometer

A microscopic study of the effects of particle size and composition of atmospheric aerosols on the corrosion of mild steel

article

A note on the effects of inorganic seed aerosol on the oxidation state of secondary organic aerosol-α -Pinene ozonolysis

scientific article

Accretion reactions of octanal catalyzed by sulfuric acid: product identification, reaction pathways, and atmospheric implications.

scientific article

Acid-catalyzed condensed-phase reactions of limonene and terpineol and their impacts on gas-to-particle partitioning in the formation of organic aerosols

scientific article published in July 2010

Acidity and concentrations of ionic species of PM2.5 in Hong Kong

Aerosol delivery to non-ventilated infants by metered dose inhaler: should a valved spacer be used?

scientific article published on 01 September 1997

Aerosol thermodynamics of potassium salts, double salts, and water content near the eutectic

Air pollution in mega cities in China

article

Analysis of organic sulfur compounds in atmospheric aerosols at the HKUST supersite in Hong Kong using HR-ToF-AMS.

scientific article published on 5 March 2015

Application of Fluorescence Spectroscopy To Study the State of Water in Aerosols

Application of positive matrix factorization in source apportionment of particulate pollutants in Hong Kong

Atmospheric particle composition-hygroscopic growth measurements using an in-series hybrid tandem differential mobility analyzer and aerosol mass spectrometer

journal article; published in Aerosol Science and Technology in 2017

Carbon content of common airborne fungal species and fungal contribution to aerosol organic carbon in a subtropical city

Characteristics and mixing state of amine-containing particles at a rural site in the Pearl River Delta, China

scholarly article

Characteristics and mixing state of amine-containing particles at a rural site in the Pearl River Delta, China

Characteristics of chemical compositions of atmospheric aerosols in Hong Kong: spatial and seasonal distributions

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Characteristics of organic matter in PM2.5 in Shanghai

scientific article

Characteristics of submicron particulate matter at the urban roadside in downtown Hong Kong-Overview of 4 months of continuous high-resolution aerosol mass spectrometer measurements

scientific article

Characterization and source identification of sub-micron particles at the HKUST Supersite in Hong Kong.

scientific article published on 14 May 2015

Characterization of Organic Particles from Incense Burning Using an Aerodyne High-Resolution Time-of-Flight Aerosol Mass Spectrometer

journal article; published in Aerosol Science and Technology in 2012

Characterization of chemical species in PM2.5 and PM10 aerosols in Hong Kong

article by K.F Ho et al published January 2003 in Atmospheric Environment

Characterization of dicarboxylic acids in PM2.5 in Hong Kong

Characterization of size-segregated aerosols using ToF-SIMS imaging and depth profiling

Chemical characteristics of brown carbon in atmospheric particles at a suburban site near Guangzhou, China

scholarly article

Chemical characteristics of brown carbon in atmospheric particles at a suburban site near Guangzhou, China

Clean graphene surface through high temperature annealing

scholarly article in Carbon, vol. 94, November 2015

Cloud condensation nuclei activation of limited solubility organic aerosol

article

Combined Diffusion Model for the Sorption of Cadmium, Copper, and Zinc Ions onto Bone Char

article

Comparison of daytime and nighttime new particle growth at the HKUST supersite in Hong Kong

scientific article published on 2 June 2015

Comparison of secondary organic aerosol formation from toluene on initially wet and dry ammonium sulfate particles

Comparison of secondary organic aerosol formation from toluene on initially wet and dry ammonium sulfate particles at moderate relative humidity

scholarly article

Comparison of thermodynamic predictions for in situ pH in PM2.5

Continuous Measurements of the Water Activities of Aqueous Droplets of Water-Soluble Organic Compounds

Continuous Measurements of the Water Activities of the Mg2+−Ca2+−Na+−Cl-−NO3-−SO42-−H2O System

Correlations of Ambient Temperature and Relative Humidity with Submicron Particle Number Concentration Size Distributions in On-Road Vehicle Plumes

journal article; published in Aerosol Science and Technology in 2007

Coupling and evaluating gas/particle mass transfer treatments for aerosol simulation and forecast

scholarly article

Defects of clean graphene and sputtered graphite surfaces characterized by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

scholarly article in Carbon, vol. 112, February 2017

Determination of Water Activity in Ammonium Sulfate and Sulfuric Acid Mixtures Using Levitated Single Particles

Diffusion Sampler for Measurement of Acidic Ultrafine Particles in the Atmosphere

journal article; published in Aerosol Science and Technology in 2014

Displacement of Ammonium from Aerosol Particles by Uptake of Triethylamine

journal article; published in Aerosol Science and Technology in 2012

Diurnal and day-to-day characteristics of ambient particle mass size distributions from HR-ToF-AMS measurements at an urban site and a suburban site in Hong Kong

scholarly article

Diurnal and day-to-day characteristics of ambient particle mass size distributions from HR-ToF-AMS measurements at an urban site and a suburban site in Hong Kong

Effect of Thermal Treatment on the Photocatalytic Activity of TiO2 Coatings for Photocatalytic Oxidation of Benzoic Acid

scholarly article by Alex H. C. Chan et al published July 2002 in Journal of Materials Research

Effects of potassium nitrate on the solid phase transitions of ammonium nitrate particles

Effects of the polymorphic transformation of glutaric acid particles on their deliquescence and hygroscopic properties

scientific article

Electrospray surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (ES-SERS) for probing surface chemical compositions of atmospherically relevant particles

scholarly article

Electrospray-Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (ES-SERS) for probing surface chemical compositions of atmospherically relevant particles

article

Emission of volatile organic compounds and production of secondary organic aerosol from stir-frying spices

scientific article published on 19 May 2017

Enhanced Reactive Uptake of Nonanal by Acidic Aerosols in the Presence of Particle-Phase Organics

Enhanced Sulfate Production by Nitrate Photolysis in the Presence of Halide Ions in Atmospheric Particles

scientific article published on 12 March 2020

Ergosterol as a biomarker for the quantification of the fungal biomass in atmospheric aerosols

Evaluation of traffic exhaust contributions to ambient carbonaceous submicron particulate matter in an urban roadside environment in Hong Kong

scholarly article

Evaluation of traffic exhaust contributions to ambient carbonaceous submicron particulate matter in an urban roadside environment in Hong Kong

Evidence of high PM2.5 strong acidity in ammonia-rich atmosphere of Guangzhou, China: Transition in pathways of ambient ammonia to form aerosol ammonium at [NH4+]/[SO42–]=1.5

article

Experimental Determination of Solid−Liquid Equilibrium Phase Diagrams for Crystallization-Based Process Synthesis

Experimental study of the sampling artifact of chloride depletion from collected sea salt aerosols.

scientific article published in February 2001

FTIR Characterization of Polymorphic Transformation of Ammonium Nitrate

journal article; published in Aerosol Science and Technology in 2007

Film-Pore Diffusion Control for the Batch Sorption of Cadmium Ions from Effluent onto Bone Char

scientific article published on 01 February 2001

Formation and transformation of metastable double salts from the crystallization of mixed ammonium nitrate and ammonium sulfate particles

scientific article published in December 2007

Formation of nitrate and non-sea-salt sulfate on coarse particles

Formation of secondary organic aerosols from gas-phase emissions of heated cooking oils

scholarly article

Formation of secondary organic aerosols from gas–phase emissions of heated cooking oils

Formulation development and bioavailability evaluation of a self-nanoemulsified drug delivery system of oleanolic acid.

scientific article published on 18 February 2009

Gas-particle partitioning of alcohol vapors on organic aerosols

scientific article published in January 2010

Growth and Shrinkage of New Particles in the Atmosphere in Hong Kong

journal article; published in Aerosol Science and Technology in 2010

Heterogeneous Oxidation of SO2 in Sulfate Production during Nitrate Photolysis at 300 nm: Effect of pH, Relative Humidity, Irradiation Intensity, and the Presence of Organic Compounds

scientific article published on 11 July 2019

Heterogeneous reactions of linoleic acid and linolenic acid particles with ozone: reaction pathways and changes in particle mass, hygroscopicity, and morphology.

scientific article published on 23 June 2007

Heterogeneous uptake of ammonia and dimethylamine into sulfuric and oxalic acid particles

scholarly article

Hygroscopic Study of Glucose, Citric Acid, and Sorbitol Using an Electrodynamic Balance: Comparison with UNIFAC Predictions

journal article; published in Aerosol Science and Technology in 2001

Hygroscopic and phase transition properties of alkyl aminium sulfates at low relative humidities

scientific article published in July 2015

Hygroscopic properties of two model humic-like substances and their mixtures with inorganics of atmospheric importance

scientific article published in November 2003

Hygroscopicity of water-soluble organic compounds in atmospheric aerosols: amino acids and biomass burning derived organic species

scientific article published in March 2005

Impact of meteorology and energy structure on solvent extractable organic compounds of PM2.5 in Beijing, China

scientific article published on November 2005

Impacts of traffic emissions on atmospheric particulate nitrate and organics at a downwind site on the periphery of Guangzhou, China

scholarly article

Investigation of efflorescence of inorganic aerosols using fluorescence spectroscopy

scientific article published in February 2005

Managing air quality in a rapidly developing nation: China

article

Measurements of non-volatile aerosols with a VTDMA and their correlations with carbonaceous aerosols in Guangzhou, China

scholarly article

Measurements of the hygroscopic and deliquescence properties of organic compounds of different solubilities in water and their relationship with cloud condensation nuclei activities

scientific article published on May 2008

Measuring Ambient Acidic Ultrafine Particles Using Iron Nanofilm Detectors: Method Development

journal article; published in Aerosol Science and Technology in 2012

Mixing state of oxalic acid containing particles in the rural area of Pearl River Delta, China: implication for seasonal formation mechanism of Secondary Organic Aerosol (SOA)

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Mixing state of oxalic acid containing particles in the rural area of Pearl River Delta, China: implications for the formation mechanism of oxalic acid

scholarly article

Nanoscale spectroscopic and mechanical characterization of individual aerosol particles using peak force infrared microscopy.

scientific article published in June 2017

New Directions: Polymorphic transformation of ammonium nitrate in atmospheric aerosols

Observations of Water Monomers in Supersaturated NaClO4,LiClO4, and Mg(ClO4)2Droplets Using Raman Spectroscopy

Oligomeric products and formation mechanisms from acid-catalyzed reactions of methyl vinyl ketone on acidic sulfate particles

Online gas and particle phase measurements of organosulfates, organosulfonates and nitrooxyorganosulfates in Beijing utilizing a FIGAERO ToF-CIMS

Partial crystallization and deliquescence of particles containing ammonium sulfate and dicarboxylic acids

scholarly article

Particulate matter (PM) episodes at a suburban site in Hong Kong: evolution of PM characteristics and role of photochemistry in secondary aerosol formation

scholarly article

Performance Evaluation of the Brechtel Mfg. Humidified Tandem Differential Mobility Analyzer (BMI HTDMA) for Studying Hygroscopic Properties of Aerosol Particles

article

Phase Transition and Hygroscopic Properties of Internally Mixed Ammonium Sulfate and Adipic Acid (AS-AA) Particles by Optical Microscopic Imaging and Raman Spectroscopy

journal article; published in Aerosol Science and Technology in 2009

Photochemical smog in China: scientific challenges and implications for air-quality policies

article

Physical and chemical characterization of ambient aerosol by HR-ToF-AMS at a suburban site in Hong Kong during springtime 2011

article published in 2013

Physical characterization of oleanolic acid nonsolvate and solvates prepared by solvent recrystallization

scientific article

Possible Sampling Artifact in Real Time Particle Size Distributions Related to Sampling Rate

journal article; published in Aerosol Science and Technology in 2006

Primary and secondary organic aerosol from heated cooking oil emissions

scholarly article

Primary and secondary organic aerosol from heated cooking oil emissions

Properties of organic matter in PM2.5 at Changdao Island, China—A rural site in the transport path of the Asian continental outflow

article

Quantification of Airborne Elemental Carbon by Digital Imaging

Reactions of SO2 and NH3 with epoxy groups on the surface of graphite oxide powder

scientific article published on 14 February 2018

Reactive Uptake of Dimethylamine by Ammonium Sulfate and Ammonium Sulfate-Sucrose Mixed Particles

scientific article published on 27 December 2016

Real-Time Observation of the Transformation of Ultrafine Atmospheric Particle Modes

Real-time chemical characterization of atmospheric particulate matter in China: A review

article

Reduction of SO2 by CO and COS over La2O2S—a mechanistic study

Relating Hygroscopic Properties of Magnesium Nitrate to the Formation of Contact Ion Pairs

scholarly article by Yun-Hong Zhang et al published June 2006 in Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Relating Hygroscopic Properties of Magnesium Nitrate to the Formation of Contact Ion Pairs

scholarly article by Yun-Hong Zhang et al published March 2004 in Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Relative Humidity-Dependent HTDMA Measurements of Ambient Aerosols at the HKUST Supersite in Hong Kong, China

article

Resonance structures in elastic and Raman scattering from microspheres

scientific article published on 01 February 1991

Responses of ammonium sulfate particles coated with glutaric acid to cyclic changes in relative humidity: hygroscopicity and Raman characterization

scientific article published in November 2006

Role of oleic acid coating in the heterogeneous uptake of dimethylamine by ammonium sulfate particles

journal article; published in Aerosol Science and Technology in 2017

Role of the aerosol phase state in ammonia/amines exchange reactions

scientific article published on 24 May 2013

Roles of the Phase State and Water Content in Ozonolysis of Internal Mixtures of Maleic Acid and Ammonium Sulfate Particles

Sampling artifacts of acidity and ionic species in PM2.5.

scientific article published on January 2004

Seasonal variations and mass closure analysis of particulate matter in Hong Kong.

scientific article published on February 2006

Simultaneous HTDMA and HR-ToF-AMS measurements at the HKUST Supersite in Hong Kong in 2011

Single particle Raman spectroscopy for investigating atmospheric heterogeneous reactions of organic aerosols

article

Size dependence of in situ pH in submicron atmospheric particles in Hong Kong

Size distributions and condensation growth of submicron particles in on-road vehicle plumes in Hong Kong

Size distributions and formation of dicarboxylic acids in atmospheric particles

scholarly article by Xiaohong Yao et al published May 2002 in Atmospheric Environment

Size distributions and formation of ionic species in atmospheric particulate pollutants in Beijing, China: 1—inorganic ions

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Size distributions and formation of ionic species in atmospheric particulate pollutants in Beijing, China: 2—dicarboxylic acids

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Sizing Characterization of the Fast-Mobility Particle Sizer (FMPS) Against SMPS and HR-ToF-AMS

journal article; published in Aerosol Science and Technology in 2013

Solar photocatalytic thin film cascade reactor for treatment of benzoic acid containing wastewater

scientific article published in March 2003

Source apportionment of PM2.5 in urban area of Hong Kong.

scientific article

Source identification analysis for the airborne bacteria and fungi using a biomarker approach

Study of Contact Ion Pairs of Supersaturated Magnesium Sulfate Solutions Using Raman Scattering of Levitated Single Droplets

scholarly article by Yun-Hong Zhang & Chak K. Chan published October 2000 in Journal of Physical Chemistry A

Study of hygroscopic properties of aqueous mixtures of disodium fluorescein and sodium chloride using an electrodynamic balance

scientific article published on 01 September 1997

Surface Chemical Composition of Size-Fractionated Urban Walkway Aerosols Determined by X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

journal article; published in Aerosol Science and Technology in 2013

The 3-hydroxy fatty acids as biomarkers for quantification and characterization of endotoxins and Gram-negative bacteria in atmospheric aerosols in Hong Kong

The characteristics of PM2.5 in Beijing, China

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The effect of H2O on the reduction of SO2 and NO by CO on La2O2S

The effect of hydroxyl functional groups and molar mass on the viscosity of non-crystalline organic and organic–water particles

scholarly article

The effects of organic species on the hygroscopic behaviors of inorganic aerosols

scientific article

The role of traffic emissions in particulate organics and nitrate at a downwind site in the periphery of Guangzhou, China

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The size dependence of chloride depletion in fine and coarse sea-salt particles

The size resolved cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) activity and its prediction based on aerosol hygroscopicity and composition in the Pearl Delta River (PRD) Region during wintertime 2014

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The size-resolved cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) activity and its prediction based on aerosol hygroscopicity and composition in the Pearl Delta River (PRD) region during wintertime 2014

scholarly article

The water cycles of water-soluble organic salts of atmospheric importance

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The water-soluble ionic composition of PM2.5 in Shanghai and Beijing, China

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Understanding hygroscopic growth and phase transformation of aerosols using single particle Raman spectroscopy in an electrodynamic balance

scientific article

Understanding the Hygroscopic Properties of Supersaturated Droplets of Metal and Ammonium Sulfate Solutions Using Raman Spectroscopy

Viscosity of erythritol and erythritol-water particles as a function of water activity: new results and an intercomparison of techniques for measuring the viscosity of particles

scholarly article by Yangxi Chu et al published 26 April 2018 in Atmospheric measurement techniques discussions

Viscosity of erythritol and erythritol–water particles as a function of water activity: new results and an intercomparison of techniques for measuring the viscosity of particles

scholarly article by Yangxi Chu et al published 17 August 2018 in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Water Activities and Osmotic Coefficients of Aqueous Solutions of Five Alkylaminium Sulfates and Their Mixtures with H2SO4 at 25oC

journal article; published in Aerosol Science and Technology in 2015

Water Content and Phase Transitions in Particles of Inorganic and Organic Species and their Mixtures Using Micro-Raman Spectroscopy

journal article; published in Aerosol Science and Technology in 2010

Water activities of NH4NO3/(NH4)2SO4 solutions

article published in 1992

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