Nanoscale characterization of PM 2.5 airborne pollutants reveals high adhesiveness and aggregation capability of soot particles

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Shi, Yuanyuan ^a   Ji, Yanfeng ^a   Sun, Hui ^b   Hui, Fei ^a   Hu, Jianchen ^a   Wu, Yaxi ^c   Fang, Jianlong ^c   Lin, Hao ^d   Wang, Jianxiang ^b   Duan, Huiling ^b   Lanza, Mario ^a  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SOOT;

ADHESION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; PARTICULATE MATTER; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOOT;

ADHESIVENESS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOPARTICLES; PARTICULATE MATTER; SOOT;

EID: 84937140251     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep11232     Document Type: Article

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