We’re very happy to announce the publication of our latest manuscript, “Nitric acid-induced surface disordering on ice,” as an Accepted Manuscript in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. link to paper

Samar G. Moussa, Min-Hsuan Kuo, and V. Faye McNeill, Nitric acid-induced surface disordering on ice (2013) Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., Accepted Manuscript, doi:10.1039/C3CP50487E

We are happy to announce the acceptance of our latest publication in the latest Faraday Discussions.

“Aqueous aerosol SOA formation: Impact on aerosol physical properties.” Joseph L. Woo, Derek D. Kim, Allison N. Schwier, Ruizhi Li and Vivian Faye McNeill. Faraday Discuss., 2013, doi: 10.1039/C3FD00032J link to paper

This July, the work here will be discussed at the 165th Faraday Discussion Conference in Leeds, UK, focusing on “Tropospheric aerosol – Formation, Transformation, Fate and impacts.” More information about the conference can be found here.

The McNeill Group End of Semester party was held Sunday, May 5 2013!

L to R: Shitao, Mark, Alex, Joe, Min, Andrew, VFM, Giuliana, Silja, Greg, Yrjo, Dr. Neha, Dr. Sid

Joe Barakat, Columbia Chem E ’12, has been awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to support his PhD studies at Standford University.  He joins Coty Jen and Sophie Chu as the third McNeill Group undergraduate research alum to win this award.  Congratulations Joe!!

Our newest publication is now in open discussion at Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions!

Self-limited uptake of α-pinene-oxide to acidic aerosol: The effects of liquid-liquid phase separation and implications for the formation of secondary organic aerosol and organosulfates from epoxides G. T. Drozd, J. L. Woo, and V. F. McNeill Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss, 2013, Vol.13, pp. 7151-7174  link to paper

We’re happy to announce the publication of our new manuscript as a Just Accepted article by J. Phys. Chem. A!

“Photochemical Aging of Light-Absorbing Secondary Organic Aerosol Material” Neha Sareen, Samar Moussa, and V. Faye McNeill. J. Phys. Chem. A (2013) doi:10.1021/jp309413j link to paper

We’d like to share with you our recently published review article, “Surface-Active Organics in Atmospheric Aerosols.”  Topics covered in this review include sources of surfactants in aerosols, and their impacts on aerosol heterogeneous chemistry, ice nucleation, and cloud droplet formation. This article is a chapter in a forthcoming volume of Topics in Current Chemistry (Ariya and McNeill, eds.), entitled “Atmospheric and Aerosol Chemistry.”

“Surface-Active Organics in Atmospheric Aerosols,” V. Faye McNeill, Neha Sareen, and Allison N. Schwier. Topics in Current Chemistry, doi:10.1007/128_2012_404 link to article

Our recently published manuscript, “Surfactants from the gas phase may promote cloud droplet formation,” was featured on Scientific American‘s podcast, 60-second Science. Have a listen!

Our new publication in PNAS, “Surfactants from the gas phase may promote cloud droplet formation,” is highlighted in this news article, published today in E&E News’ ClimateWire!

We are thrilled to announce the publication of our work in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy Sciences, USA! This work is the result of our ongoing collaboration with the Nenes Group at Georgia Tech.

“Surfactants from the gas phase may promote cloud droplet formation” (2013) Neha Sareen, Allison N. Schwier, Terry Lathem, Athanasios Nenes, and V. Faye McNeill. PNAS Early Edition, doi:10.1073/pnas.1204838110 link to paper