Reactive nitrogen-driven atmospheric multiphase buffering induces unintended concomitant pollution.

Yuting Wei, Jie Gao, Haoqi Wang, Han Xu, Yinchang Feng, Guoliang Shi, Shaojie Song, Armistead G Russell

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Yuting WeiKey Laboratory of Urban Air Particulate Pollution Prevention and Control of Ministry of Ecology and Environment, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300350, China.

Jie GaoAcademy of Eco-civilization Development for Jing-Jin-Ji Megalopolis, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, 300387, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3572-6966

Haoqi WangKey Laboratory of Urban Air Particulate Pollution Prevention and Control of Ministry of Ecology and Environment, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300350, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9002-0774

Han XuKey Laboratory of Urban Air Particulate Pollution Prevention and Control of Ministry of Ecology and Environment, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300350, China.

Yinchang FengKey Laboratory of Urban Air Particulate Pollution Prevention and Control of Ministry of Ecology and Environment, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300350, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6014-5258

Guoliang ShiKey Laboratory of Urban Air Particulate Pollution Prevention and Control of Ministry of Ecology and Environment, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300350, China. nksgl@nankai.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5872-0236

Shaojie SongKey Laboratory of Urban Air Particulate Pollution Prevention and Control of Ministry of Ecology and Environment, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300350, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6395-7422

Armistead G RussellSchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2027-8870

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 42477105

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Abstract

Atmospheric multiphase buffering capacity is a crucial physicochemical property of aerosol that significantly influences the Earth's radiative budget, climate, air quality, and public health. However, its implications for air pollution remain largely unexplored. Here, we present four years of continuous observation and laboratory experiments as evidence that reactive nitrogen (Nr)-driven atmospheric multiphase buffering can induce unintended Concomitant Pollution. Specifically, gaseous pollutants undergo phase partitioning into aerosol aqueous phases during the process of pH change under buffering constraints, subsequently transforming into concomitant particulate pollution. Furthermore, from a global perspective, we reveal that NH

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PMID41387964

DOI10.1038/s41467-025-67167-9

PMCPMC12800251

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