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Mass fraction (chemistry)

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Equivalent black carbon concentration measured with an aethalometer AE33 during the Arctic Ocean 2018 expedition

Julia Schmale, Andrea Baccarini, Benjamin Jérémy Laurent Heutte

Equivalent black carbon (eBC) mass concentration was measured with a commercial aethalometer (model AE33, Magee Scientific, Berkeley, USA). Measurements were performed onboard of the Swedish icebreaker (I/B) Oden from August to September 2018 as part of th ...

EPFL Infoscience2024

Bulk size-resolved chemical composition and mass concentration of non-refractory submicron aerosols measured in the Swiss container during MOSAiC 2019/2020

Julia Schmale, Ivo Fabio Beck, Hélène Paule Angot, Lubna Dada, Benjamin Jérémy Laurent Heutte

This dataset contains the bulk size-resolved chemical composition and mass concentration of non-refractory submicron aerosols (NR-PM1) measured during the MOSAiC expedition from October 2019 to July 2020. These include the mass concentrations of sulfate (S ...

Zenodo2023

Aerosol optical absorption coefficients at seven wavelengths in 10 min resolution measured in the Swiss container during MOSAiC 2019/2020

Julia Schmale, Ivo Fabio Beck, Lubna Dada, Benjamin Jérémy Laurent Heutte

This dataset contains aerosol optical absorption coefficients at seven different wavelengths (babs(λ)), averaged to 10 min time resolution, measured during the year-long MOSAiC expedition from October 2019 to September 2020. The measurements were performed ...

Zenodo2023

Arctic warming by abundant fine sea salt aerosols from blowing snow

Jian Wang, Julia Schmale, Xin Yang, Markus Frey, Nora Bergner

The Arctic warms nearly four times faster than the global average, and aerosols play an increasingly important role in Arctic climate change. In the Arctic, sea salt is a major aerosol component in terms of mass concentration during winter and spring. Howe ...

2023

Secondary aerosol formation during the dark oxidation of residential biomass burning emissions

Athanasios Nenes

Particulate matter from biomass burning emissions affects air quality, ecosystems and climate; however, quantifying these effects requires that the connection between primary emissions and secondary aerosol production is firmly established. We performed at ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

The underappreciated role of nonvolatile cations in aerosol ammonium-sulfate molar ratios

Athanasios Nenes, Hairun Guo

Overprediction of fine-particle ammonium-sulfate molar ratios (R) by thermodynamic models is suggested as evidence for interactions with organic constituents that inhibit the equilibration of gas-phase ammonia with aerosol sulfate and questions the equilib ...

Copernicus Publications2018

The Mass-Concentration Relation and the Stellar-to-halo Mass Ratio in the CFHT Stripe 82 Survey

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Huanyuan Shan

We present a new measurement of the mass-concentration relation and the stellar-to-halo mass ratio over the halo-mass range 5 x 10(12) to 2 x 10(14) M circle dot. To achieve this, we use weak lensing measurements from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Str ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2017

Measuring air borne nanoparticles for characterizing hyphenated RDD-SMPS-ICPMS instrumentation

Christian Ludwig, Adrian Hess

Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer (SMPS) and Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICPMS), complemented by a Rotating Disk Diluter (RDD) to a hyphenated RDD-SMPS-ICPMS measuring setup, allow online and simultaneous determination of size distribution ...

Elsevier2016

Time-resolved size and element analysis of gas-borne nanoparticles

Adrian Hess

Physical and chemical characterization of gas-borne particles in the nanometer to sub-micrometer size range is important in many applications, such as nanoparticle related health studies, the monitoring of powder or dust distribution processes, assessing t ...

EPFL2016

MASS-CONCENTRATION RELATION OF CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES FROM CFHTLenS

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Huanyuan Shan

Based on weak lensing data from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS), in this paper we study the mass-concentration (M-c) relation for similar to 200 redMaPPer clusters in the fields. We extract the M-c relation by measuring the den ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Mechanism of formation of silver nanoparticles in MAG-DMAEMA copolymer aqueous solutions

Philippe Buffat, Elena Suvorova Buffat

Dispersed Ag nanoparticles were prepared in aqueous solutions in the presence of pure poly[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate] (poly-DMAEMA), poly[2-deoxy-2-methacrylamido-d-glucose] (poly-MAG), and their copolymers of poly[MAG–DMAEMA] with different mole ...

Springer Verlag2015

Measurements of Submicron Aerosols at the California-Mexico Border during the Cal-Mex 2010 Field Campaign

Satoshi Takahama

We present measurements of submicron aerosols in Tijuana, Mexico during the Cal-Mex 2010 field campaign. A suite of aerosol instrumentations were deployed, including a hygroscopic-volatility tandem differential mobility analyzer (HV-TDMA), aerosol particle ...

Elsevier2014

Pressure-induced transformations in LiCl-H2O at 77 K

Livia Eleonora Bove Kado

A systematic study of the properties of high-density amorphous ice (HDA) in the presence of increasing amounts of salt is missing, especially because it is challenging to avoid ice crystallization upon cooling the pressurized liquid. In order to be able to ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2014

Synthesis and Properties of Highly-Charged Cationic Polyelectrolytes

Hamideh Ahmadloo

Polyelectrolytes (PEL) and PEL complexes formed by electrostatic interaction are recognized as compounds with a remarkable potential for a wide field of applications. However, comprehensive knowledge about electrostatic and structural influences on the pol ...

EPFL2013

IceTop: The surface component of IceCube

Matthias Wolf, Xiaoxia Bai, Mathieu Ribordy, Shirit Cohen

IceTop, the surface component of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, is an air shower array with an area of 1 km(2). The detector allows a detailed exploration of the mass composition of primary cosmic rays in the energy range from about 10 ...

Elsevier Science Bv2013

Catalysts for High Temperature Gas Cleaning in the Production of Synthetic Natural Gas from Biomass

Bio synthetic natural gas (Bio-SNG) is being proposed as an alternative to the natural gas of fossil origin (NG) [1]. Bio-SNG consists mainly of CH4 (at least 95%mol), has a high heating value (e.g. 10 kWh/m3N), and respects the quality standards of the NG ...

EPFL2012

Effects of extraction methods on the composition and molar mass distributions of exopolymeric substances of the bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti

Vera Slaveykova-Startcheva

The influence of the extraction methods on the composition, size diversity, molar mass and size distributions of exopolymeric substances (EPS) from the bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti wild type (WT) and by the exoY strain deficient in exopolysaccharide pr ...

Elsevier2012

Plasticization of poly-L-lactide for tissue engineering

Jan-Anders Edvin Maansson, Pierre-Etienne Bourban, John Christopher Plummer, Matthieu Cuénoud

Plasticization of medical grade poly-L-lactide (PLLA) by addition of polyethylene glycol (PEG) with various molar masses has been evaluated as means of producing low stiffness matrices for bioresorbable scaffolds for soft-tissue engineering applications. A ...

Wiley-Blackwell2011

Assessment of metal-extracellular polymeric substances interactions by asymmetrical flow field-flow fractionation coupled to inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

Vera Slaveykova-Startcheva

Extracellular polymeric substances (EPSs) excreted by the bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti and associated Ca, Cd and Pb were characterised by asymmetrical flow field-flow fractionation coupled with UV spectrophotometry and inductively coupled plasma mass s ...

2010

Development of a hyphenated analytical methodology for the fractionation and characterization of environmental colloids

Natural colloids are defined as macromolecules and nanoparticles with sizes ranging between 1 nm and 1 µm. Colloidal pool is complex "ill-defined" mixture of humic substances, exopolymeric substances (EPS), inorganic oxides, clays, etc. Aquatic colloids ha ...

EPFL2009