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• Transgressing planetary boundaries: A crisis wake-up call for chemistry
  

  A paper just published in the journal Chemical Science calls for urgent attention to the crucial role that chemistry must play in tackling the multiple crises that are now unfolding due to the transgression of planetary boundaries. Nine boundaries, first proposed in 2009, define safe operating space more

• Light amplification accelerates chemical reactions in aerosols
  

  Aerosols in the atmosphere react to incident sunlight. This light is amplified in the interior of the aerosol droplets and particles, accelerating reactions. ETH researchers have now been able to demonstrate and quantify this effect and recommend factoring it into future climate models. Liquid dropl more

• Aerosol researcher Yafang Cheng honored by Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year 2021
  

  Dr. Yafang Cheng has been selected as one of the 10 winners of the Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year 2021 in the category Physical Sciences for “Breaking the Wall to understanding COVID-19 transmission through aerosols”. “Top-class researchers globally are pushing the boundaries to mak more

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The Chemical Compounds Behind the Scent of the Sea

The summer holidays are here, which means there’ll soon be crowds flocking to the coast to spend the day at the beach. The supposed benefits of ‘fresh sea air’ are commonly extolled, but its origins might not be what you think: it’s the chemical compounds produced by algae and seaweed that contribut more

The Aroma of Christmas Trees

The aroma of pine trees is one that’s evocative of Christmas; one of the responsible molecules, alpha-pinene, has already been featured on the Chemistry Advent Calendar, but here we take a more detailed look at the chemical constituents of the aroma. One of the most important contributors to the Chr more

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• Assessing the lung toxicity of air pollutants
  

  The current debates on driving bans in European cities show not only how important air quality is to the public but also reveal the lack of available methods to directly assess the adverse effects of air pollutants on human health. more

Authors Aerosols

• Dipl. Ing. Sonja Mülhopt
  

  Sonja Mülhopt earned her diploma in mechanical engineering at the Berufsakademie Mannheim (now DHBW) in 2000, completing her concomitant training at the Karlsruhe Research Center, now the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). In 2014 she received the Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from more

• Dr. Hanns-Rudolf Paur
  

  Hanns-R. Paur earned his doctorate in chemistry at the LMU Munich and subsequently researched as a postdoc at the University of California, Riverside. Activities From 1997 to 2018 he headed the Department of Aerosol and Particle Technology at the Institute for Technical Chemistry (ITC) of the Karlsr more

• Dr. Hendryk Czech
  

  Hendryk Czech, born in 1988, received his doctoral degree in 2017 from the University of Rostock. Afterwards, he continued his research as postdoctoral researcher at the University of Eastern Finland in Kuopio. Since 2019, he has been project manager of the German-Israeli Helmholtz International Lab more