Indoor chemistry: Research opportunities and challenges

Indoor Air

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 357-361

  Nazaroff, W W ^a   Goldstein, A H ^a,b  

^a 109 McLaughlin Hall   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMISTRY RESEARCH; INDOOR CHEMISTRY; RESEARCH CHALLENGES; RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES;

VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MICROCLIMATE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SURFACE PROPERTY;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ATMOSPHERE; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; HUMANS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84937125266     PISSN: 09056947     EISSN: 16000668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ina.12219     Document Type: Editorial

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