Yue Zhang | 张悦

Excited to join BlueSky with handler @atmosyz.bsky.social. Let’s connect and keep the scientific conversation going—see you in the skies! Please feel free to post your handler too so I can find you!

A big week for our lab! 🎓 Our first PhD student, Dr. Sahir Gagan @sahir_gagan, defended his dissertation on emerging pollutants with flying colors, and Mingsheng Fang passed his MS defense on aerosol optical properties. Very proud advisor moment. Congratulations to both! 🔬🎉

Excited to share that Ph.D. student @sahir_gagan has published new research in @ACSPublications Analytical Chemistry🧪 Using real-time CIMS, we developed the first online method to detect short-chain #PFAS & precursors at ppt levels. url-shortener.me/6SWO

🎉 Congrats to my PhD student Alana Dodero on her new paper in Chemical Research in Toxicology! We show that atmospheric aging makes nanoplastics more toxic to human lung cells through collaboration with Prof. Natalie Johnson’s group in public health. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Excited to see my PhD student Sining Niu’s new paper in @ACSPublications ES&T Air! 🎉 Using a VIA-Vocus CIMS system with NH₄⁺ ionization, the study simultaneously measures SOA composition, volatility & viscosity in real time. 👏 Congrats, Sining! 🔗 pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

10AC.4 4:45 pm, PhD student Sining Niu will talk about Chemical Composition and Volatility Distribution of Secondary Organic Aerosol Formed through Multiphase Chemical Reactions as with Different Sulfate Seed Acidity. Please feel free to stop by! #AerosolChemistry #LEDChamber

Thursday of #AAAR2025, our group has two more talks in the afternoon of the aerosol chemistry session. 10AC.4 4:15 pm, I will talk about using our LED-powered Environmental Chamber with Modeling to Form Secondary Organic Aerosol (SOA) Coatings onto Seed Particles

These presentations demonstrate our continued efforts to understand atmospheric processes, from PFAS detection in particles to the physicochemical behavior of secondary organic aerosols. If you’re attending #AAAR2025, we’d love to connect and discuss! #PFAS #SOA #Hygroscopicity

💧 3:45 PM | Session 7CC.2 Nahin Ferdousi-Rokib, Collaborator, Postdoc at JHU - Diffusion and Salting-In Effects on Isoprene-Derived Secondary Organic Aerosol Mixture Proxy Hygroscopicity

Excited for #AAAR2025, Our Group Member and Collaborator’s Presentations on Wednesday! 🧪 10:30 AM | Session 5CE.4 Xiangxinyue Meng (Postdoc) - Real-Time Detection of Particle-Phase Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Using Aerosol Mass Spectrometry

🤝 Collaborators: 11:15 AM, 1AC.7 Laura Marie - A Missing Pool of Photooxidants from Wildfire Smoke Particles 2RM.4 Poster Session, Yoonsub Kim - Advancing Airborne PFAS Characterization near Industrial Sources Please feel free to stop by! More will come up on Wednesday!

🌫️ Sahir Gagan @sahir_gagan - 4:45 PM, 3CE.6 “Characterizing Atmospheric Oxidation & CCN Activity of Polystyrene Nanoplastics”

🌟 Excited for #AAAR2025 Conference! 🌟 Our lab and collaborators will present the following research this Tuesday: 🧪 Jiayun Zhao - 10:15 AM, 1AC.3 “Volatility-Resolved In-Situ Chemical & Optical Characterization of Brown Carbon as a Function of Atmospheric Aging”

ES&T Paper: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10… ESPI Paper: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

📜New papers from our group! Two studies led by our Ph.D. students Alana Dodero & Kyle McCary quantify VCPs in Houston using mobile/field data, the first kind of measurements in a subtropical urban setting. Findings show distinct spatial/temporal patterns vs. temperate cities.

🎉 Congrats to PhD student Sahir Gagan @sahir_gagan from my group for publishing in ES&T! His new paper quantifies the atmospheric lifetime, aging, and CCN activity of nanoplastic particles, a major step in examining their atmospheric/climate process. 🔗 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Harvard President Alan Garber was met with a standing ovation at its commencement ceremony as he celebrated the presence of students from "around the world."

Excited to share our postdoc Miska Olin’s new paper in Aerosol Sci. & Tech! Using our 10 m³ chamber + modeling, Miska explored how nucleation and SOA coating interact, achieving precise SOA coating thickness. Congrats, Miska! 🎉👏 tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Excited to share our new perspective paper in ES&T on atmospheric micro- & nanoplastic particles! 🧪 We cover recent advances & future directions in this emerging area. Great collaboration with Nate Slade, Arthur Chan & Andy Ault! 📄 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… #Microplastics

Congratulations to @TAMU_ATMO's Dr. Yue Zhang for receiving a @NSF CAREER Award for Pollution Research. Read more about the big honor! 🏭 tx.ag/ZhangNSFCareer

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Congratulations to Jiayun Zhao from our group on his new publication in ES&T Air! He quantified yields and uptake coefficients of isoprene oxidation products under low NOx—and showed that non-IEPOX pathways still account for ~20% of SOA formed via multiphase reactions. Read more: