Engineers discover that visualizing how bad air quality is in your home can help mitigate pollution
You can't see nasty microscopic air pollutants in your home, but what if you could?
You can't see nasty microscopic air pollutants in your home, but what if you could?
Environment
Oct 4, 2018
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Aerosol products used in the home now emit more harmful volatile organic compound (VOC) air pollution than all the vehicles in the UK, new research shows.
Environment
Apr 27, 2021
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Toxins produced by three different species of fungus growing indoors on wallpaper may become aerosolized, and easily inhaled. The findings, which likely have implications for "sick building syndrome," were published in Applied ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 23, 2017
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As the COVID-19 pandemic raged, news reports show that sales of electronic air cleaners have surged due to concerns about airborne disease transmission. But a research team at the Georgia Institute of Technology has found ...
Environment
Jul 16, 2021
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Indoor air quality (IAQ) influences the health and well-being of people but for the last 20 years there has been a growing concern about pollutants in closed environments, the difficulty in identifying them and their critical ...
Engineering
Apr 14, 2014
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A physics professor from the University of Houston has developed a nanotech coating designed to allow air filters to capture airborne or aerosolized droplets of the virus that causes COVID-19.
Nanomaterials
Sep 29, 2020
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Outdoor air pollution has been widely studied and regulated for decades, but the quality of indoor air and its potential risks were little unrecognised until the early 2000s. Yet in temperate climates we can spend up to 90% ...
Environment
Jun 5, 2019
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When ozone and skin oils meet, the resulting reaction may help remove ozone from an indoor environment, but it can also produce a personal cloud of pollutants that affects indoor air quality, according to a team of researchers.
Biochemistry
Jun 27, 2019
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Most people worry about the quality of the air they breathe outdoors, while giving little thought to the contaminants that may be circulating in their own homes.
Environment
Jun 13, 2013
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Many cleaning products labeled as "green" emit just as many harmful chemicals as regular products, new research has revealed.
Analytical Chemistry
Feb 7, 2024
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