Our recent collaborative study revealed that the (photo)chemical reaction between ozone and widely used indoor cleaning agents can produce secondary organic aerosols (SOA), representing a potential risk to human health in indoor environments. This work has been published in Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts and was selected as the cover article for the current issue.
Siyu was awarded the First Prize and Outstanding Award in the Science Popularazation Competation, held by Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou Branch and Tianhe district, Guangzhou, respectively. Her talk entitled with "Cooking Emission: An invisible killer around our daily life", reveived great attention due to its realistic implication.
Yiqun was awarded the "Academic Innovation Award" in the 21th Conference for PhD Students in the Great Bay Area, held by UCAS. Only two PhD students were awarded out of more than 40 competitors from tens of insititutes, for their outstanding academic potentials in the future career.
Congratulations to Huifan! She has been awarded the Special Prize of President Scholarship for Postgraduate Students, Chinese Academy of Sciences. This is the highest award for postgraduate student in China. Only 80 students will be awared each year all over the Chinese Academy of Sciences and its affiliations.
Our recent collaborative study on assessing the gas-phase product compounds generated by reactions of gaseous O3 with volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from exhaled human breath has been selected as the Cover Article of Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts.
Our recent study finds that sulfur dioxide reacts with dirty building surfaces under sunlight irradiation to generate polluting sulfur compounds, which may play an important role in the air quality of densely populated urban environments.