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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sahir Gagan, Alana J. Dodero, Miska Olin, Ruizhe Liu, Zezhen Cheng, Sining Niu, Yeaseul Kim, Andrew T. Lambe, Yuzhi Chen, Swarup China, and Yue Zhang. Characterizing Atmospheric Oxidation and Cloud Condensation
Nuclei Activity of Polystyrene Nanoplastic Particles, Environmental Science & Technology, Article ASAP,
<a href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.4c11738">https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.4c11738</a>, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Abstract</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">. Nanoplastic particles (NPPs) are emerging anthropogenic pollutants and have been detected in urban, rural, and remote areas. Characterizing the lifetime,
fate, and cloud-forming potential of atmospheric NPPs improves our understanding of their environmental processes and climate impacts. This study provides the first quantified heterogeneous reaction rate and lifetime of polystyrene (PS) NPPs against common
atmospheric oxidants. The atomized PS NPPs were introduced to a Potential Aerosol Mass (PAM) oxidation flow reactor with ¡¤OH exposure of 0 to 1.5 ¡¿ 10<sup>12</sup> molecules cm<sup>–3</sup> s, equivalent to atmospheric exposure from 0 to 18 days, assuming
an ambient ¡¤OH concentration of 1 ¡¿ 10<sup>6</sup> cm<sup>–3</sup>. The decay of the PS mass concentration was quantified by monitoring tracer ions, C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>6</sub><sup>+</sup> (<i>m</i>/<i>z</i> 78) and C<sub>8</sub>H<sub>8</sub><sup>+</sup> (<i>m</i>/<i>z</i> 104),
by using a high-resolution time-of-flight aerosol mass spectrometer (HR-ToF-AMS). The pseudo-first-order rate constant of PS particles reacting with ¡¤OH, <i>k</i><sub>OH</sub>, was determined to be (3.2 ¡¾ 0.7) ¡¿ 10<sup>–13</sup> cm<sup>3</sup> molecule<sup>–1</sup> s<sup>–1</sup>,
equivalent to a half-lifetime of a few hours to </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria Math",serif">¡</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">80 days in the atmosphere, depending on particle sizes and hydroxyl radical concentrations. The hygroscopicity
of 100 nm PS NPPs at different </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">¡¤</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">OH exposure levels was quantified using a cloud condensation nuclei counter (CCNC), showing a twofold increase of hygroscopicity parameter upon 27 days
of atmospheric photooxidation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/pamwiki/publications-using-the-pam-oxidation-flow-reactor?authuser=0">PAM Wiki - Publications Using the PAM Oxidation Flow Reactor</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Andrew Lambe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Principal Scientist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Aerodyne Research, Inc.
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