BLACKSBURG, Va., May 29 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
From sizzling bacon in the kitchen to wildfire smoke in the sky, cooking and pollution release microscopic particles that affect humans' health, the air they breathe, and even weather and climate.
New research from Virginia Tech is poised to upend how scientists think about the structure of these tiny airborne droplets and what that means for predictions around air quality, pollution spread, and climate models.
Yangyang Liu, a research scientist in civil and environmental engineering, and Peter Vikesland, the Pryor Professor of Engineering, found in lab studies that these particles have an outer "shell." Inside the droplet, t...