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Happy new year! We are looking forward to another productive year of indoor chemistry research and news. Thank you for your continued participation in our program.
Project Highlight: Measurements of Radical Chemistry and Aerosol Production in Indoor Environments
"Similar to the outdoors, OH can initiate the oxidation of indoor concentrations of VOCs, leading to the production of aldehydes, ketones, acids, and SOA, which can all impact human health and welfare. As a result, the OH radical may be a significant oxidant in indoor environments, converting VOCs into SOA and potentially more toxic compounds."
PIs: Philip Stevens and Brandon Boor 
(Indiana University, and Purdue University)
"The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is supporting a Sloan Symposium on the chemistry of indoor aerosols at Aerosols 2020 conference in Braunschweig, Germany, from May 6th-8th. " 
Read more here.
Social Media Highlight:
Our top tweet in December: " “If you think about what we know about healthy living, you’ll go to exercise and a healthy diet. So what’s the hole in living a healthy life? It’s our indoor environment. It’s the place we spend the most time. But the big hole exists.” https://wired.com/story/the-quest-for-clean-air #IndoorAir #IAQ"

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Publication highlight
Water uptake by indoor surface films
Heather Schwartz-Narbonne and D. James Donaldson, Scientific Reports

"The fact that indoor environments contain high surface area to volume ratios means that heterogeneous chemical reactions have the potential to play a large role in indoor chemistry. A reaction taking place in the condensed phase or on a surface can exhibit a new reactive pathway that reduces its energy requirement. Thus indoor atmospheric chemistry could display quite different reactivity from that observed outdoors."
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Please continue to send us your publications at marina.vance@colorado.edu

From the Blog
Total observed organic carbon indoors
By Demetrios Pagonis

"Organic carbon is the backbone of much of the indoor environment – people, plastics, fabrics, paints, books, foods – all are made with organic carbon. Most indoor smells are also organic carbon, but in the gas phase: the aroma of your coffee, deodorant, dog breath, all organic gases. We’re constantly surrounded by an incredibly diverse set of organic molecules, reacting and transforming hour by hour."
Send an email to marina.vance@colorado.edu if you are interested in contributing your own blog post or video to our website!

In the news
More IndoorChem media coverage

Upcoming meetings of interest
Society of Toxicology 59th Annual Meeting
Anaheim, CA, USA, 15 - 19 March, 2020.

Standard registration closes 2/7.
Aerosols 2020: 6th Indoor and Workplace Aerosols Conference
Braunschweig, Germany, 6 - 8 May, 2020.

Abstract deadline extended to 2/29.


 
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