Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry
The surface chemistry research group investigates multi-phase chemical processes relevant for atmospheric chemistry and the analytical chemistry research group reconstructs environmental and climatic conditions from high-altitude glaciers.
The Latest News
Shuzhen Chen successfully defended - congratulations
On 7th April 2022 Shuzhen Chen successfully defended her PhD entitled “Multiphase kinetics and chemistry at halide solution-air interfaces" at ETH Zürich.
Congratulations to Huanyu Yang
On 10th November 2021 Huanyu Yang successfully defended his PhD entitled “Hydrogen Bonding structure of Water at Interfaces relevant for ice nucleation" at ETH Zürich.
Picture: Huanyu Yang with supervisor Markus Ammann.
Welcome to Antoine Roose
We warmly welcome Antoine Roose as Postdoc in the Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry. He joined the Surface Chemistry group on 1 September 2021.
Current Scientific Highlight
Light amplification accelerates chemical reactions in aerosols
Together with colleagues at ETH Zürich, Peter Alpert and Markus Ammann have directly imaged where light was amplified and where it was not inside photochemically active particles using X-ray spectromicroscopy.
"We can now look at climate change regionally"
Margit Schwikowski is head of the Laboratory for Environmental Chemistry at PSI. In an interview, she explains what aerosols have to do with climate change.
‘Ice Memory Mission’ accomplished
During its expedition to the Monte Rosa massif, the international Ice Memory team extracted two ice cores over 80 meters long from Colle Gnifetti, the oldest ice in the Alps.
The Latest Publications
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Pan Z, Bodi A, van Bokhoven JA, Hemberger P
On the absolute photoionization cross section and threshold photoelectron spectrum of two reactive ketenes in lignin valorization: fulvenone and 2-carbonyl cyclohexadienone
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 2022; 24(6): 3655-3663. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CP05206C
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Alpert PA, Dou J, Corral Arroyo P, Schneider F, Xto J, Luo B, et al.
Photolytic radical persistence due to anoxia in viscous aerosol particles
Nature Communications. 2021; 12(1): 1769 (8 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21913-x
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Bartels-Rausch T, Kong X, Orlando F, Artiglia L, Waldner A, Huthwelker T, et al.
Interfacial supercooling and the precipitation of hydrohalite in frozen NaCl solutions as seen by X-ray absorption spectroscopy
Cryosphere. 2021; 15(4): 2001-2020. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-2001-2021
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