Explanipedia

Machine-learning-enhanced understanding of haze formation: Rapid sulfate formation driven by abnormal aerosol interfacial effects Open

Yangyang Liu, Qiuyue Ge, Wenbo You, Wei Wang, Lifang Xie , et al. · 2025

Airborne microplastics: An unexpected source of atmospheric brown carbon Open

Peter J. Vikesland, Yangyang Liu, Weinan Leng, Qiuyue Ge, Sonali Srivastava , et al. · 2025

Microplastics are increasingly recognized as emergent atmospheric contaminants1,2, yet they are generally presumed to be inert constituents that rarely participate in chemical reactions of importance due to their strong resistance to react…

Inverse and nonlinear relationships between Life’s Essential 8 metrics and gout risk: A cross-sectional study Open

Yu Cheng, Yi Feng, Miao Huang, Liwu Zhang, Junyu Lin , et al. · 2025

This study investigated the relationship between Life’s Essential 8 (LE8), a recently updated measure of cardiovascular health, and the prevalence of gout among adults in the United States. This study analyzed National Health and Nutrition…

Substantially improved efficiency and selectivity of carbon dioxide reduction by superior hydrated electron in microdroplet Open

Qiuyue Ge, Yangyang Liu, Wenbo You, Yumo Li, Wei Wang , et al. · 2025

The photochemical conversion of CO 2 into valuable fuels faces challenges of low efficiency and poor selectivity. Hydrated electrons (e aq − ), with their extremely negative reduction potential, are promising CO 2 -reducing agents, yet the…

Fresh tire wear particles from moving vehicles: Dispersion dynamics, exposure, and prevention strategy Open

Yi-Wei Xu, Licheng Wang, Ruilin Wang, Weiqi Jiang, Longfei Du , et al. · 2025

Tire Wear Particles (TWPs) have emerged as a significant source of non-exhaust emissions, posing potential exposure risks due to increased vehicle ownership and the advent of new energy vehicles. However, the dispersion and flow dynamics o…

MPs Entering Human Circulation through Infusions: A Significant Pathway and Health Concern Open

Tingting Huang, Yangyang Liu, Licheng Wang, Xuejun Ruan, Qiuyue Ge , et al. · 2025

Human uptake of microplastic particles (MPs) is causing increasing health concerns, and there is mounting pressure to evaluate the associated risks. While MPs can be ingested, breathed in, or drank in, a very direct entrance channel is ava…

Carbonate radical ion as a key driver of rapid atmospheric sulfate formation Open

Yangyang Liu, Wei Li, Qiuyue Ge, Xiaozhong Fang, Tao Wang , et al. · 2025

Carbonate radical anion ( $${{\rm{CO}}}_{{3}^{.-}}$$ CO 3 . − ) is generally considered as a marginal intermediate that rarely regulates atmospheric-relevant reactions of significance. Unexpectedly, in this work, employing a suit of the in…

Does deformation of immobilization devices impact treatment accuracy in thoracic cancer radiotherapy? Open

Lianzi Zhao, Liwu Zhang, Yiwen Hu, Yang Zhong · 2024

Background Immobilization devices are essential for maintaining accurate and repeatable patient positioning in radiotherapy. This study aimed to evaluate the setup errors and dosimetric deviation induced by the deformation of immobilizatio…

Chirality conferral enables the observation of hyper-Raman optical activity Open

Robin R. Jones, John F. Kerr, Hyunah Kwon, Samuel R. Clowes, Ruidong Ji , et al. · 2024

Chirality conferral is fundamental for understanding the origin of life, and it is of direct importance for synthesizing new pharmaceuticals in the face of growing antibiotic resistance. Human-made, self-assembling nanostructures replicate…

Nanoplastics Detected in Commercial Sea Salt Open

Xuejun Ruan, Jianpeng Ao, Minglu Ma, Robin R. Jones, Juan Liu , et al. · 2024

People of all ages consume salt every day, but is it really just salt? Plastic nanoparticles [nanoplastics (NPs)] pose an increasing environmental threat and have begun to contaminate everyday salt in consumer goods. Herein, we developed a…

Investigation of Mold Flux Entrapment in Deep Oscillation Mark of Interstitial-Free Steel Shell Using Mold Simulator Open

Xiong Yan, Wanlin Wang, Lejun Zhou, Xiaocan Zhong, Hongliang Lin , et al. · 2024

The slag entrapment defect has become a big issue for the IF steel casting process. In this study, the mechanism of mold flux entrapment in deep oscillation mark of an IF steel shell was studied by a high-temperature mold simulator. Result…

Efficient V-Shaped Substrate for Surface and Volume Enhanced Raman Spectroscopic Analysis of Bioaerosol: Prevention from Potential Health Risk Open

Juan Liu, Yangyang Liu, Yunyun Zhang, Xuejun Ruan, Hanyun Cheng , et al. · 2024

Bioaerosols pose a great threat to human life and health, and developing highly efficient and accurate identification and analysis methodologies for bioaerosols provides prerequisite knowledge to evaluate their toxicity on human health. In…

The missing small microplastics: easily generated from weathered plastic pieces in labs but hardly detected in natural environments Open

Fangni Du, Huiwen Cai, Lei Su, Wei Wang, Liwu Zhang , et al. · 2023

Plentiful small microplastics and nanoplastics can easily generate from weathered plastics, but few small microplastics and no nanoplatics could be detected in surrounding sediments, possibly due to a lack of suitable detection approach.

Prebiotic synthesis of mineral-bearing microdroplet from inorganic carbon photoreduction at air–water interface Open

Qiuyue Ge, Yangyang Liu, Wenbo You, Wei Wang, Kejian Li , et al. · 2023

The origin of life on Earth is an enigmatic and intricate conundrum that has yet to be comprehensively resolved despite recent significant developments within the discipline of archaeology and geology. Chemically, metal-sulfide minerals ar…

Sunlight Induces the Production of Atmospheric Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) from Thermokarst Ponds Open

Tao Wang, Carmen Kalalian, Daniel Fillion, S. Perrier, Jianmin Chen , et al. · 2023

Ground subsidence caused by permafrost thawing causes the formation of thermokarst ponds, where organic compounds from eroding permafrost accumulate. We photolyzed water samples from two such ponds in Northern Quebec and discovered the emi…

High enrichment of heavy metals in fine particulate matter through dust aerosol generation Open

Qianqian Gao, Shengqiang Zhu, Kaili Zhou, Jinghao Zhai, Shaodong Chen , et al. · 2023

Dust is a major source of atmospheric aerosols. Its chemical composition is often assumed to be similar to the parent soil. However, this assumption has not been rigorously verified. Here, we generated dust aerosols from soils to determine…

Key Factors Determining the Formation of Sulfate Aerosols Through Multiphase Chemistry—A Kinetic Modeling Study Based on Beijing Conditions Open

Tao Wang, Yangyang Liu, Shengqian Zhou, Guochen Wang, Xiansheng Liu , et al. · 2023

Severe haze in Beijing is characterized by the rapid formation of sulfate via the multiphase oxidation of SO 2 . While many factors, including aerosol oxidants and atmospheric variables, were discovered and investigated, their relative imp…

Fast detection and 3D imaging of nanoplastics and microplastics by stimulated Raman scattering microscopy Open

Jianpeng Ao, Guanjun Xu, Han Wu, Lifang Xie, Juan Liu , et al. · 2023

Nanoplastic pollution represents an increasing concern for the scientific community. However, the identification of tiny nano-/microplastics (smaller than 5 μm) is still a huge challenge. Herein, we report rapid detecting and 3D imaging of…

Dense Arrays of Nanohelices: Raman Scattering from Achiral Molecules Reveals the Near‐Field Enhancements at Chiral Metasurfaces (Adv. Mater. 34/2023) Open

Robin R. Jones, Cornelia Miksch, Hyunah Kwon, Coosje Pothoven, Kristina R. Rusimova , et al. · 2023

Nanohelices In article number 2209282, Daniel Wolverson, Ventsislav K. Valev, and co-workers reveal how, upon illumination with green circularly polarized light, achiral crystal violet molecules within dense arrays of silver nanohelices yi…

Imaging of pH distribution inside individual microdroplet by stimulated Raman microscopy Open

Kedong Gong, Jianpeng Ao, Kejian Li, Le Liu, Yangyang Liu , et al. · 2023

Aerosol microdroplets as microreactors for many important atmospheric reactions are ubiquitous in the atmosphere. pH largely regulates the chemical processes within them; however, how pH and chemical species spatially distribute within an …

Comment on acp-2022-802 Open

Qianqian Gao, Shengqiang Zhu, Kaili Zhou, Jinghao Zhai, Shaodong Chen , et al. · 2023

Abstract. Dust is a major source of atmospheric aerosols. Its chemical composition is often assumed to be similar to the parent soil. However, this assumption has not been rigorously verified. Here, we generated dust aeros…

Measurement report: Volatile organic compound characteristics of the different land-use types in Shanghai: spatiotemporal variation, source apportionment and impact on secondary formations of ozone and aerosol Open

Yu Han, Tao Wang, Rui Li, Hongbo Fu, Yusen Duan , et al. · 2023

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) have important impacts on air quality, atmospheric chemistry and human health. In order to identify the spatiotemporal variations, sources and ozone (O3) and secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation poten…

High Enrichment of Heavy Metals in Fine Particulate Matter through Dust Aerosol Generation Open

Qianqian Gao, Shengqiang Zhu, Kaili Zhou, Jinghao Zhai, Shaodong Chen , et al. · 2023

Dust is a major source of atmospheric aerosols. Its chemical composition is often assumed to be similar to the parent soil. However, this assumption has not been rigorously verified. Here, we generated dust aerosols from soils to determine…

Supplementary material to "High Enrichment of Heavy Metals in Fine Particulate Matter through Dust Aerosol Generation" Open

Qianqian Gao, Shengqiang Zhu, Kaili Zhou, Jinghao Zhai, Shaodong Chen , et al. · 2023

Dense Arrays of Nanohelices: Raman Scattering from Achiral Molecules Reveals the Near‐Field Enhancements at Chiral Metasurfaces Open

Robin R. Jones, Cornelia Miksch, Hyunah Kwon, Coosje Pothoven, Kristina R. Rusimova , et al. · 2023

Against the background of the current healthcare and climate emergencies, surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is becoming a highly topical technique for identifying and fingerprinting molecules, e.g., within viruses, bacteria, drugs, …

Heterogeneous Oxidation of So2 Over Key Mineral Dust Component Tio2 in the Presence of Co2: Effect of Relative Humidity and Irradiation Intensity Open

Yangyang Liu, Tao Wang, Qiuyue Ge, Kejian Li, Wei Wang , et al. · 2023

Nanoplastics Detected in Commercial Sea Salt Open

Xuejun Ruan, Jianpeng Ao, Robin R. Jones, Juan Liu, kejian Li , et al. · 2022

People of all ages consume salt every day, but is it really just salt? Plastic nanoparticles (nanoplastics) polluting the oceans and the atmosphere are posing an increasing environmental threat and have begun to contaminate everyday salt i…

Significant formation of sulfate aerosols contributed by the heterogeneous drivers of dust surface Open

Tao Wang, Yangyang Liu, Hanyun Cheng, Zhenzhen Wang, Hongbo Fu , et al. · 2022

The importance of dust heterogeneous oxidation in the removal of atmospheric SO2 and formation of sulfate aerosols is not adequately understood. In this study, the Fe-, Ti-, and Al-bearing components, Na+, Cl−, K+, and Ca2+ of the dust sur…

Significant Acceleration of Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction to HCOOH at Gas-Liquid Interface Open

Qiuyue Ge, Yangyang Liu, kejian Li, Longqian Wang, Lifang Xie , et al. · 2022

Solar‐driven CO₂ reduction reaction (CO₂RR) is largely constrained by the sluggish mass transfer and fast combination of photogenerated charge carriers. Herein, we find that the photocatalysis CO₂RR efficie…

A protocol to study microdroplet photoreaction at an individual droplet level using in situ micro-Raman spectroscopy Open

Kejian Li, Longqian Wang, Juan Liu, Kedong Gong, Wei Wang , et al. · 2022

Liwu Zhang YOU? Author Swipe