The first #CASAChem paper is out! Check out this wonderful work by postdoc @JienanLi ! We put wood smoke in a home and looked at how chemicals from it lingered on the surfaces.
Excited to share our new indoorchem paper led by Jienan Li out today! We found that smoke VOCs form surface reservoirs and thus persist indoors - meaning that air cleaners and ventilation don't permanently remove them, but surface cleaning does... (Sorry, I hate mopping too)
The persistence of smoke VOCs indoors: Partitioning, surface cleaning, and air cleaning in a smoke-c...
Wildfire smoke persists indoors due to equilibrium partitioning to surfaces, but surface cleaning is effective to reduce exposure.