Keck Engineering Labs, Roof Lab
email: achan [AT] caltech
(626) 395-4476
B.S., Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 2005
I do smog chamber and modeling studies of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation from hydrocarbon oxidation. Through chamber experiments, I study the chemistry of these oxidation processes in both the gas and aerosol phases, and how that affects SOA formation.
American Institute of Chemical Engineers Delaware Valley Section Award, 2004
Hugo Otto Wolf Memorial Prize, 2005
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable Mention, 2005 & 2006
5. Ng, N. L.; Chhabra, P. S.; Chan, A. W. H.; Surratt, J. D.; Kroll, J. H.; Kwan, A. J.; McCabe, D. C.; Wennberg, P. O.;Sorooshian, A.; Murphy, S. M.; Dalleska, N. F.; Flagan, R. C.; Seinfeld, J. H.: Effect of NOx level on secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation from the photooxidation of terpenes. Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 7, 10131-10177, 2007.
4. Chan, A. W. H.; Kroll, J. H.; Ng, N. L.; Seinfeld. J. H. Kinetic modeling of Secondary Organic Aerosol formation: effects of particle- and gas-phase reactions of semivolatile products. Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 7, 7051-7085, 2007
3. Sorooshian, A.; Ng, N. L.; Chan, A. W. H.; Feingold, G.; Flagan, R. C.; Seinfeld. J. H. Particulate organic acids and overall water-soluble aerosol composition measurements from the 2006 Gulf of Mexico Atmospheric Composition and Climate Study (GoMACCS). J. Geophys. Res., 112, D13201, doi:10.1029/2007JD008537, 2007
2. Ng, N. L.; Kroll, J. H.; Chan, A. W. H.; Chhabra, P. S.; Flagan, R. C.; Seinfeld, J. H.: Secondary organic aerosol formation from m-xylene, toluene, and benzene, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 7, 3923-3931, 2007.
1. Kroll, J. H.; Chan, A. W. H.; Ng, N. L.; Flagan, R. C.; Seinfeld. J. H. Reactions of semivolatile organics and their effects on secondary organic aerosol formation. Environ. Sci. Tech., 41, 3545-3550, 2007
Seinfeld Research Group. 2010.