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ArticleEnvironmental science & technology2021

Evaluating Indoor Air Chemical Diversity, Indoor-to-Outdoor Emissions, and Surface Reservoirs Using High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry.

Roger Sheu, Claire F Fortenberry, Michael J Walker, Azin Eftekhari, Christof Stönner, Alexa Bakker, Jordan Peccia, Jonathan Williams, Glenn C Morrison, Brent J Williams and 1 more

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Article in Environmental science & technology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Roger SheuDepartment of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-7342-3790
Claire F FortenberryDepartment of Energy, Environmental, & Chemical Engineering and Center for Aerosol Science and Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, United States.
Michael J WalkerDepartment of Energy, Environmental, & Chemical Engineering and Center for Aerosol Science and Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-1347-7636
Azin EftekhariDepartment of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27515, United States.
Christof StönnerDepartment of Atmospheric Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz 55128, Germany.
Alexa BakkerDepartment of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-1881-3248
Jordan PecciaDepartment of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6482-2084
Jonathan WilliamsDepartment of Atmospheric Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz 55128, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9421-1703
Glenn C MorrisonDepartment of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27515, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-6876-7185
Brent J WilliamsDepartment of Energy, Environmental, & Chemical Engineering and Center for Aerosol Science and Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, United States.
Drew R GentnerDepartment of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-3066-2614
Yale University · USWashington University in St. Louis · USMax Planck Institute for Chemistry · DEUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

EPA R835751
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Detailed offline speciation of gas- and particle-phase organic compounds was conducted using gas/liquid chromatography with traditional and high-resolution mass spectrometers in a hybrid targeted/nontargeted analysis. Observations were focused on an unoccupied home and were compared to two other indoor sites. Observed gas-phase organic compounds span the volatile to semivolatile range, while functionalized organic aerosols extend from intermediate volatility to ultra-low volatility, including a mix of oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur-containing species. Total gas-phase abundances of hydrocarbon and oxygenated gas-phase complex mixtures were elevated indoors and strongly correlated in the unoccupied home. While gas-phase concentrations of individual compounds generally decreased slightly with greater ventilation, their elevated ratios relative to controlled emissions of tracer species suggest that the dilution of gas-phase concentrations increases off-gassing from surfaces and other indoor reservoirs, with volatility-dependent responses to dynamically changing environmental factors. Indoor-outdoor emissions of gas-phase intermediate-volatility/semivolatile organic hydrocarbons from the unoccupied home averaged 6-11 mg h

Indexed as

Air PollutantsAir Pollution, IndoorVolatile Organic CompoundsAerosolsEnvironmental MonitoringGas Chromatography-Mass SpectrometryMass SpectrometryAerosolsAir PollutantsVolatile Organic Compoundsaerosolsatmospheric chemistryemissions of volatile chemical productsindoor air qualitypersonal care productssurface emissionsventilationvolatile organic compoundswhole-house emission rates

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PMID34270218
PMCPMC8461992
OpenAlexW3178581961

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