| Title: | Insect Infestation Increases Viscosity of Biogenic Secondary Organic Aerosol |
| Author(s): | Smith NR; Crescenzo GV; Bertram AK; Nizkorodov SA; Faiola CL; |
| Address: | "Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, United States. Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, United States" |
| DOI: | 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.3c00007 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 2472-3452 (Print) 2472-3452 (Electronic) |
| Abstract: | "Plant stress alters emissions of volatile organic compounds. However, little is known about how this could influence climate-relevant properties of secondary organic aerosol (SOA), particularly from complex mixtures such as real plant emissions. In this study, the chemical composition and viscosity were examined for SOA generated from real healthy and aphid-stressed Canary Island pine (Pinus canariensis) trees, which are commonly used for landscaping in Southern California. Healthy Canary Island pine (HCIP) and stressed Canary Island pine (SCIP) aerosols were generated in a 5 m(3) environmental chamber at 35-84% relative humidity and room temperature via OH-initiated oxidation. Viscosities of the collected particles were measured using an offline poke-flow method, after conditioning the particles in a humidified air flow. SCIP particles were consistently more viscous than HCIP particles. The largest differences in particle viscosity were observed in particles conditioned at 50% relative humidity where the viscosity of SCIP particles was an order of magnitude larger than that of HCIP particles. The increased viscosity for the aphid-stressed pine tree SOA was attributed to the increased fraction of sesquiterpenes in the emission profile. The real pine SOA particles, both healthy and aphid-stressed, were more viscous than alpha-pinene SOA particles, demonstrating the limitation of using a single monoterpene as a model compound to predict the physicochemical properties of real biogenic SOA. However, synthetic mixtures composed of only a few major compounds present in emissions (<10 compounds) can reproduce the viscosities of SOA observed from the more complex real plant emissions" |
| Notes: | "PubMed-not-MEDLINESmith, Natalie R Crescenzo, Giuseppe V Bertram, Allan K Nizkorodov, Sergey A Faiola, Celia L eng 2023/05/24 ACS Earth Space Chem. 2023 Apr 25; 7(5):1060-1071. doi: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.3c00007. eCollection 2023 May 18" |
