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AirUCI faculty Jack Brouwer was quoted in Transportation Topics journal in an article on fuel cells and how they're being used to extend distance and payload of freight trucks.  “With fuel cells, it’s possible to make a totally zero-emissions truck that can haul a big payload over a reasonable distance without adding so much weight," Brouwer said.  This type of separate power and energy sizing of the truck’s fuel cell “is not possible with batteries alone.”    Read the article

AirUCI Co-Director Sergey Nizkorodov, along with AirUCI collaborators Julia and Alex Laskin, have published a well-received review of mass spectrometry and its use in atmospheric chemistry in the journal Analytical Chemistry.  The review presents new developments in MS instrumentation and methods, summarizes selected applications of MS-based techniques, and discusses several promising directions in the field.
 
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AirUCI faculty Steven Davis was asked to comment on an article in Science describing the challenges of balancing poverty eradication with climate change mitigation, although he was not involved with the work.  The study implies that climate and human development goals are not necessarily inconsistent, but “It really kind of depends on what level of poverty we’re OK with,” he said.  The bottom line, he adds is that, “If we’re really trying to consider getting people not just out of extreme poverty, but into the middle class, then maybe we do have more of a challenge.”  Read the article

The American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) has awarded the Benjamin Y. H. Liu Award for 2017 to AirUCI faculty James N. Smith.  This award recognizes outstanding contributions to aerosol instrumentation and experimental techniques that have significantly advanced the science and technology of aerosols.  Congratulations, Jim!