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Publications Details for Grant Number R835040

Understanding the Hygroscopic Properties of Black Carbon/Organic Carbon Mixing States: Connecting Climate and Health Impacts of Anthropogenic Aerosol

RFA: Black Carbon's Role In Global To Local Scale Climate And Air Quality (2010)

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Journal Article Giordano MR, Short DZ, Hosseini S, Lichtenberg W, Asa-Awuku AA. Changes in droplet surface tension affect the observed hygroscopicity of photochemically aged biomass burning aerosol. Environmental Science & Technology 2013;47(19):10980-10986. R835040 (2013)
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Journal Article Giordano MR, Asa-Awuku A. Rebuttal to correspondence on "Changes in droplet surface tension affect the observed hygroscopicity of photochemically aged biomass burning aerosol". Environmental Science & Technology 2014;48(3):2084-2085. R835040 (2014)
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Journal Article Giordano M, Espinoza C, Asa-Awuku A. Experimentally measured morphology of biomass burning aerosol and its impacts on CCN ability. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 2015;15(4):1807-1821. R835040 (2014)
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Journal Article Karavalakis G, Short D, Vu D, Villela M, Russell R, Jung H, Asa-Awuku A, Durbin T. Regulated emissions, air toxics, and particle emissions from SI-DI light-duty vehicles operating on different iso-butanol and ethanol blends. SAE International Journal of Fuels and Lubricants 2014;7(1):183-199. R835040 (2014)
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Journal Article Karavalakis G, Short D, Vu D, Villela M, Asa-Awuku A, Durbin TD. Evaluating the regulated emissions, air toxics, ultrafine particles, and black carbon from SI-PFI and SI-DI vehicles operating on different ethanol and iso-butanol blends. Fuel 2014;128:410-421. R835040 (2014)
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Journal Article Karavalakis G, Short D, Vu D, Russell R, Hajabaei M, Asa-Awuku A, Durbin T. Evaluating the Effects of Aromatics Content in Gasoline on Gaseoand Particulate Matter Emissions from SI-PFI and SIDI Vehicles. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY 2015;49(11):7021-7031. R835040 (Final)
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Journal Article Short DZ, Vu D, Durbin TD, Karavalakis G, Asa-Awuku A. Components of particle emissions from light-duty spark-ignition vehicles with varying aromatic content and octane rating in gasoline. Environmental Science & Technology 2015;49(17):10682-10691. R835040 (Final)
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Journal Article Short D, Giordano M, Zhu Y, Fine PM, Polidori A, Asa-Awuku A. A unique online method to infer water-insoluble particle contributions. Aerosol Science and Technology 2014;48(7):706-714. R835040 (2012)
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Journal Article Short D, Vu D, Durbin TD, Karavalakis G, Asa-Awuku A. Particle speciation of emissions from iso-butanol and ethanol blended gasoline in light-duty vehicles. Journal of Aerosol Science 2015;84:39-52. R835040 (2014)
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Journal Article Short D, Vu D, Chen V, Espinoza C, Berte T, Karavalakis G, Durbin TD, Asa-Awuku A. Understanding particles emitted from spray and wall-guided gasoline direct injection and flex fuel vehicles operating on ethanol and iso-butanol gasoline blends. Aerosol Science and Technology 2017;51(3):330-341. R835040 (Final)
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Journal Article Vu D, Gao S, Berte T, Kacarab M, Yao Q, Vafai K, Asa-Awuku A. External and internal cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) mixtures:Controlled laboratory studies of varying mixing states. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 2019;12:4277–89. R835040 (Final)
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Paper Karavalakis G, Short D, Hajbabaei M, Vu D, Villela M, Russell R, Durbin T, Asa-Awuku A. Criteria emissions, particle number emissions, size distributions, and black carbon measurements from PFI gasoline vehicles fuelled with different ethanol and butanol blends. SAE Technical Paper 2013-01-1147, 2013. R835040 (Final)
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Paper Karavalakis G, Short D, Chen V, Espinoza C, Berte T, Durbin T, Asa-Awuku A, Jung H, Ntziachristos L, Amanatidis S, Bergmann A. Evaluating particulate emissions from a flexible fuel vehicle with direct injection when operated on ethanol and iso-butanol blends. SAE Technical Paper 2014-01-2768, 2014. R835040 (Final)
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Paper Li Y, Xue J, Johnson K, Durbin T, Villela M, Pham L, Hosseini S, Zheng Z, Short D, Karavalakis G, Asa-Awuku A, Jung H, Wang X, Quiros D, Hu S, Huai T, Ayala A. Determination of suspended exhaust PM mass for light-duty vehicles. SAE Technical Paper 2014-01-1594, 2014. R835040 (Final)
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Presentation Asa-Awuku A. Density and elemental ratios of secondary organic aerosol: application of a density prediction method. Presented at the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) 31st Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN, October 8-12, 2012. R835040 (2013)
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Presentation Asa-Awuku A. Internal or external? The mixing state of biomass burning aerosol, its photochemical evolution, and climate impacts. Presented at the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) 31st Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN, October 8-12, 2012. R835040 (2013)
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Presentation Asa-Awuku A. Real-time measurements of water-insoluble fractions and black carbon concentrations with water and butanol based particle counters. Presented at the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) 31st Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN, October 8-12, 2012. R835040 (2013)
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Presentation Asa-Awuku A. The investigation of water-insoluble particle emissions of butanol and ethanol gasoline mixtures. Presented at the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) 31st Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN, October 8-12, 2012. R835040 (2013)
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Presentation Asa-Awuku A. Criteria emissions, particle number emissions, size distributions, and black carbon measurements from PFI gasoline vehicles fueled with different ethanol and butanol blend. Presented at the SAE 2013 World Congress: Achieving Efficiency, Detroit, MI, April 16-18, 2013. R835040 (2013)
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Presentation Asa-Awuku A. CCN relevant properties of biomass burning aerosol. Presented at Goldschmidt 2013, Florence, Italy, August 25-30, 2013. R835040 (2013)
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Presentation Asa-Awuku A, Short D. A unique on-line method to infer black carbonaceous contributions to water-insoluble aerosol compositions. Presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 9-13, 2013. R835040 (2014)
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Presentation Asa-Awuku A. Real-time measurements of water-insoluble particles. Presented at the Gordon Research Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, West Dover, VT, July 28-August 2, 2013. R835040 (2013)
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Presentation Asa-Awuku A. Unique on-line method to infer water-insoluble particulate mass-fractions. Presented at the European Aerosol Conference (EAC 2013), Prague, Czech Republic, September 1-6, 2013. R835040 (2013)
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Presentation Gao S, Giordano M, Short D, Vu D, Asa-Awuku A. Sources of black carbon condensation nuclei. Presented at the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) 32nd Annual Conference, Portland, OR, September 30-October 4, 2013. R835040 (2013)
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Presentation Giordano M, Short D, Hosseini E, Cocker D, Asa-Awuku A. Significant effects of photochemical aging on biomass burning aerosol. Presented at the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute Fall 2011 Meeting, University of California, Riverside, CA, October 16-18, 2011. R835040 (2012)
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Presentation Giordano M, Espinoza C, Asa-Awuku A. The limitations of electrical mobility diameter for biomass burning CCN activation. Presented at the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) 32nd Annual Conference, Portland, OR, September 30-October 4, 2013. R835040 (2013)
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Presentation Giordano M, Weise DR, Asa-Awuku A. Polluted vs clean: chronic nitrogen deposition affects on emissions from burning of forest litter. Presented at the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) 33rd Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, October 20-24, 2014. R835040 (2014)
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Presentation Karavalakis G, Short D, Hajabeibi M, Vu D, Villela M, Russell R, Durbin T, Asa-Awuku A. Criteria emissions, particle number emissions, size distributions, and black carbon measurements from PFI gasoline vehicles fueled with different ethanol and butanol blends. Presented at the SAE 2013 World Congress: Achieving Efficiency, Detroit, MI, April 16-18, 2013 (SAE Technical Paper 2013-01-1147). R835040 (2014)
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Presentation Li Y, Xue J, Johnson K, Durbin T, Villela M, Pham L, Hosseini S, Zheng Z, Short D, Karavalakis G, Asa-Awuku A, Jung H, Wang X, Quiros D, Hu S, Huai T, Ayala A. Determination of suspended exhaust PM mass for light-duty vehicles. Paper presented at the SAE 2014 World Congress & Exhibition, Detroit, MI, April 8-10, 2014 (SAE Technical Paper 2014-01-1594). R835040 (2014)
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Presentation Short D, Giordano M, Polidori A, Zhu Y, Fine P, Asa-Awuku A. Will black carbon influence water and butanol based condensational particle counts? Real-time particle measurements from I-710. Presented at the Western States Section of the Combustion Institute Fall 2011 Meeting, University of California, Riverside, CA, October 16-18, 2011. R835040 (2012)
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Presentation Short D, Vu D, Karavalakis G, Durbin T, Asa-Awuku A. Assessing rates of global warming emissions from port-fuel injection and gasoline direct injection engines in light-duty passenger vehicles. Presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 9-13, 2013. R835040 (2014)
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Presentation Short D, Vu D, Karavalakis G, Durbin TD, Asa-Awuku A. Ethanol and iso-butanol gasoline blends use in light duty gasoline direct injection vehicles: real-time measurements of particle number, sizing, and composition. Presented at the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) 32nd Annual Conference, Portland, OR, September 30-October 4, 2013. R835040 (2013)
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Presentation Short D, Vu D, Villela M, Durbin T, Karavalakis G, Asa-Awuku A. Air toxic, particle, and PAH emissions from spray-guided and wall-guided SIDI passenger cars fueled with different alcohol formulations. Presented at the CRC Real World Emissions Workshop, San Diego, CA, March 30-April 2, 2014. R835040 (2014)
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Presentation Short D, Chen V, Espinoza C, Villela M, Jung H, Durbin T, Karavalakis G, Asa-Awuku A. Gaseous and particle emissions from a flex-fuel vehicle operating on ethanol and iso-butanol blends. Presented at the CRC Real World Emissions Workshop, San Diego, CA, March 30-April 2, 2014. R835040 (2014)
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Presentation Short D, Vu D, Berte T, Karavalakis G, Durbin TD, Asa-Awuku A. Particle number and composition differences from conventional and emerging vehicle technology on varying aromatic and high octane fuels. Presented at the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) 33rd Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, October 20-24, 2014. R835040 (2014)
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Presentation Vu D, Gao S, Pierce J, Asa-Awuku A. Understanding cloud condensation nuclei mixing states from flow tube experiments. Presented at the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) 33rd Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, October 20-24, 2014. R835040 (2014)
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