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PNNL Publications

2025

• Gagan S., A. Dodero, M. Olin, R. Liu, Z. Cheng, S. Niu, and J.Y. Kim, et al. 2025. "Characterizing Atmospheric Oxidation and Cloud Condensation Nuclei Activity of the Polystyrene Nanoplastic Particles." Environmental Science & Technology 59, no. 21:10380-10389. PNNL-SA-205631. doi:10.1021/acs.est.4c11738
• Lata N., Z. Cheng, D.N. Dexheimer, S. Mathai, M.A. Marcus, K.A. Pratt, and S. Thevuthasan, et al. 2025. "Vertical Gradient in Atmospheric Particle Phase State: A Case Study Over the Alaskan Arctic Oil Fields." Environmental Science: Atmospheres 5, no. 4:415-428. PNNL-SA-206143. doi:10.1039/D4EA00150H
• Mei F., Q. Zhang, D. Zhang, J.D. Fast, G.R. Kulkarni, M.S. Pekour, and C.R. Niedek, et al. 2025. "Measurement Report: Vertically resolved Atmospheric Properties Observed over the Southern Great Plains with the ArcticShark Uncrewed Aerial System." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 25, no. 6:3425-3444. PNNL-SA-204341. doi:10.5194/acp-25-3425-2025

2024

• Cheng Z., M.B. Shrivastava, A. Ijaz, D.P. Veghte, G.W. Vandergrift, K. Tseng, and N. Lata, et al. 2024. "Enhanced light absorption for solid-state brown carbon from wildfires due to organic and water coatings." Nature Communications 15, no. _:Art. No. 10326. PNNL-SA-199989. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-54506-5
• Deyoung J., U.G. Akporere, Z. Cheng, S. China, G.W. Vandergrift, C.R. Anderton, and Y. Zhou, et al. 2024. "Chemical Differences in Environmental Films collected on Surfaces with Different Hydrophilicity." ACS Earth and Space Chemistry 8, no. 12:2411-2419. PNNL-SA-199960. doi:10.1021/acsearthspacechem.4c00170
• Gautam T., G.W. Vandergrift, N. Lata, Z. Cheng, A. Rahman, A. Minke Eknim, and Z. Lai, et al. 2024. "Chemical insights into the molecular composition of organic aerosols in the urban region of Houston, Texas." ACS ES&T Air 1, no. 10:1304-1316. PNNL-SA-193682. doi:10.1021/acsestair.4c00141
• Niu S., R. Liu, Q. Zhao, S. Gagan, A. Dodero, Q. Ying, and X. Ma, et al. 2024. "Quantifying the Chemical Composition and Real-time Mass Loading of Nanoplastic Particles in the Atmosphere Using Aerosol Mass Spectrometry." Environmental Science & Technology 58, no. 7:3363-3374. PNNL-SA-193683. doi:10.1021/acs.est.3c10286
• Rahman A., N. Lata, B.G. Sebben, D.N. Dexheimer, Z. Cheng, R. Godoi, and A. Bilbao, et al. 2024. "Enhanced Detection of Primary Biological Aerosol Particles Using Machine Learning and Single Particle Measurement." ACS ES&T Engineering 4, no. 10:2393-2402. PNNL-SA-194864. doi:10.1021/acsestengg.4c00262
• Vandergrift G.W., D. Dexheimer, D. Zhang, Z. Cheng, N. Lata, M.M. Rogers, and M.B. Shrivastava, et al. 2024. "Tethered Balloon System and High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry Reveal Increased Organonitrates Aloft compared to Ground Level." Environmental Science & Technology 58, no. 23:10060-10071. PNNL-SA-192523. doi:10.1021/acs.est.4c02090
• Ward N.D., M.K. Bowe, K.A. Muller, X. Chen, Q. Zhao, R.K. Chu, and Z. Cheng, et al. 2024. "Interactive effects of salinity, redox, and colloids on greenhouse gas production and carbon mobility in coastal wetland soils." PLoS One 19, no. 12:Art. No. : e0316341. PNNL-SA-192847. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0316341

2023

• Chen Y., R.A. Zaveri, G.W. Vandergrift, Z. Cheng, S. China, A. Zelenyuk-Imre, and J.E. Shilling. 2023. "Nonequilibrium Behavior in Isoprene Secondary Organic Aerosol." Environmental Science & Technology 57, no. 38:14182-14193. PNNL-SA-185113. doi:10.1021/acs.est.3c03532
• Cheng Z., M. Morgenstern, S. Henning, B. Zhang, G.C. Roberts, G.C. Roberts, and M. Fraund, et al. 2023. "Cloud condensation nuclei activity of internally mixed particle populations at a remote marine free troposphere site in the North Atlantic Ocean." Science of the Total Environment 904. PNNL-SA-185635. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166865
• El Hajj O.M., S. Hartness, G.W. Vandergrift, Y. Park, C.K. Glenn, A. Anosike, and A.R. Webb, et al. 2023. "Alkylperoxy Radicals are Responsible for the Formation of Oxygenated Primary Organic Aerosol." Science Advances 9, no. 46:Art. No. eadj2832. PNNL-SA-185995. doi:10.1126/sciadv.adj2832
• Lata N., Z. Cheng, D. Dexheimer, D. Zhang, F. Mei, and S. China. 2023. "Vertical Gradient of Size-Resolved Aerosol Compositions over the Arctic Reveals Cloud Processed Aerosol in-cloud and above Cloud." Environmental Science & Technology 57, no. 14:Pages 5501-6022. PNNL-SA-176508. doi:10.1021/acs.est.2c09498
• Li G., E.K. Wilbourn, Z. Cheng, J. Wieder, A. Fagerson, J. Henneberger, and G. Motos, et al. 2023. "Physicochemical Characterization and Source Apportionment of Arctic Ice-Nucleating Particles Observed in Ny-Alesund in Autumn 2019." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 23, no. 18:10489-10516. PNNL-SA-181357. doi:10.5194/acp-23-10489-2023
• Mathai S., D.P. Veghte, L. Kovarik, C. Mazzoleni, K. Tseng, S. Bucci, and T. Capek, et al. 2023. "Optical Properties of Individual Tar Balls in the Free Troposphere." Environmental Science & Technology 57, no. 44:16834-16842. PNNL-SA-185434. doi:10.1021/acs.est.3c03498
• Prussin A., Z. Cheng, W. Leng, S. China, and L. Marr. 2023. "Size-Resolved Elemental Composition of Respiratory Particles in Three Healthy Subjects." Environmental Science & Technology Letters 10, no. 4:356-362. PNNL-SA-179027.
• Royer H.M., M.L. Pohlker, O. Kruger, E. Blades, E. Blades, P. Sealy, and N. Lata, et al. 2023. "African Smoke Particles Act as Cloud Condensation Nuclei in the Wintertime Tropical North Atlantic Boundary Layer over Barbados." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 23, no. 2:981-998. PNNL-SA-174646. doi:10.5194/acp-23-981-2023
• Tan S., M. Nguyen, D. Zhang, L. Zhong, Z. Cheng, S. China, and G.E. Johnson, et al. 2023. "Electric-Field-Induced Assembly of an Ionic Liquid-Water Interphase Enables Efficient Heavy Metal Electrosorption." ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 15, no. 37:44469-44481. PNNL-SA-182933. doi:10.1021/acsami.3c07465
• Vandergrift G.W., N. Lata, S. Mathai, A. Ijaz, Z. Cheng, M.B. Shrivastava, and J. Zhang, et al. 2023. "Case study evaluation of size-resolved molecular composition and phase state of carbonaceous particles in wildfire influenced smoke from the Pacific Northwest." Environmental Science: Atmospheres 3, no. 9:1251-1261. PNNL-SA-180821. doi:10.1039/D3EA00058C

2022

• Cheng Z., A.V. Liyu, D. Dexheimer, N. Lata, G.R. Kulkarni, C. Longbottom, and F. Mei, et al. 2022. "An Automated Size and Time-resolved Aerosol Collector Platform Integrated with Environmental Sensors to Study the Vertical Profile of Aerosols." Environmental Science: Atmospheres 2, no. 6:1263-1276. PNNL-SA-175927. doi:10.1039/D2EA00097K

2021

• Cheng Z., N. Sharma, K. Tseng, L. Kovarik, and S. China. 2021. "Direct Observation and Assessment of Phase States of Ambient and Lab-generated Sub-micron Particles upon Humidification." RSC Advances 11, no. 25:15264-15272. PNNL-SA-158604. doi:10.1039/d1ra02530a