Bold indicates the authors from the group and underlines indicate as corresponding authors.

2023

Kumar, J., Beeler, P., Sumlin, B. J., & Chakrabarty, R. K. (2023). Aggregation-induced enhancements in aerosol absorption and scattering across the black-brown continuum. In Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer (Vol. 310, p. 108729). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2023.108729

Chakrabarty, R. K., Shetty, N. J., Thind, A. S., Beeler, P., Sumlin, B. J., Zhang, C., Liu, P., Idrobo, J. C., Adachi, K., Wagner, N. L., Schwarz, J. P., Ahern, A., Sedlacek, A. J., III, Lambe, A., Daube, C., Lyu, M., Liu, C., Herndon, S., Onasch, T. B., & Mishra, R. (2023). Shortwave absorption by wildfire smoke dominated by dark brown carbon. In Nature Geoscience (Vol. 16, Issue 8, pp. 683–688). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01237-9

Ghumra, D. P., Shetty, N., McBrearty, K. R., Puthussery, J. V., Sumlin, B. J., Gardiner, W. D., Doherty, B. M., Magrecki, J. P., Brody, D. L., Esparza, T. J., O’Halloran, J. A., Presti, R. M., Bricker, T. L., Boon, A. C. M., Yuede, C. M., Cirrito, J. R., & Chakrabarty, R. K. (2023). Rapid Direct Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Aerosols in Exhaled Breath at the Point of Care. In ACS Sensors (Vol. 8, Issue 8, pp. 3023–3031). https://doi.org/10.1021/acssensors.3c00512

Kapoor, T. S., Phuleria, H. C., Sumlin, B., Shetty, N., Anurag, G., Bansal, M., Duhan, S. S., Khan, M. S., Laura, J. S., Manwani, P., Chakrabarty, R. K., & Venkataraman, C. (2023). Optical Properties and Refractive Index of Wintertime Aerosol at a Highly Polluted North‐Indian Site. In Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres (Vol. 128, Issue 14). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022jd038272

Puthussery, J. V., Ghumra, D. P., McBrearty, K. R., Doherty, B. M., Sumlin, B. J., Sarabandi, A., Mandal, A. G., Shetty, N. J., Gardiner, W. D., Magrecki, J. P., Brody, D. L., Esparza, T. J., Bricker, T. L., Boon, A. C. M., Yuede, C. M., Cirrito, J. R., & Chakrabarty, R. K. (2023). Real-time environmental surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 aerosols. In Nature Communications (Vol. 14, Issue 1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39419-z

Sipkens, T. A., Boies, A., Corbin, J. C., Chakrabarty, R. K., Olfert, J., & Rogak, S. N. (2023). Overview of methods to characterize the mass, size, and morphology of soot. In Journal of Aerosol Science (Vol. 173, p. 106211). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaerosci.2023.106211

Shetty, N., Liu, P., Liang, Y., Sumlin, B., Daube, C., Herndon, S., Goldstein, A. H., & Chakrabarty, R. K. (2023). Brown carbon absorptivity in fresh wildfire smoke: associations with volatility and chemical compound groups. Environmental Science: Atmospheres (Vol. 3, Issue 9, pp. 1262–1271). https://doi.org/10.1039/d3ea00067b

Verma, S. R., Pervez, S., Chow, J. C., Watson, J. G., Andrabi, S. M., Mandal, P., Khan, N. A., Tiwari, S., Chandra Dumka, U., Chakrabarty, R. K., Verma, M., Pervez, Y. F., Mishra, A., Tamrakar, A., Sowmya, H. N., Deb, M. K., Ghosh, K. K., Jain, V. K., Karbhal, I., … Satnami, M. L. (2023). Optical Properties of Fine Mode Aerosols over High-Altitude Himalayan Glacier Regions. In ACS Earth and Space Chemistry (Vol. 7, Issue 8, pp. 1536–1544). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.3c00088

2022

Beeler, P., & Chakrabarty, R. K. (2022). Constraining the particle-scale diversity of black carbon light absorption using a unified framework. In Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 22, Issue 22, pp. 14825–14836). Copernicus GmbH. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-14825-2022

Kumar, J., Paik, T., Shetty, N. J., Sheridan, P., Aiken, A. C., Dubey, M. K., & Chakrabarty, R. K. (2022). Correcting for filter-based aerosol light absorption biases at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement program’s Southern Great Plains site using photoacoustic measurements and machine learning. In Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (Vol. 15, Issue 15, pp. 4569–4583). https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-4569-2022

Luo, J., Li, Z., Zhang, C., Zhang, Q., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Y., Curci, G., & Chakrabarty, R. K. (2022). Regional impacts of black carbon morphologies on shortwave aerosol–radiation interactions: a comparative study between the US and China. In Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 22, Issue 11, pp. 7647–7666). Copernicus GmbH. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-7647-2022

Oxford, C. R., Chakrabarty, R. K., & Williams, B. J. (2022). Evaluation of assumptions made by Hygroscopic Tandem Differential Mobility Analyzer inversion routines. In Journal of Aerosol Science (Vol. 162, p. 105955). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaerosci.2022.105955

Beeler, P., Jensen, N. O., Kim, S., Robichaux-Viehoever, A., Schlaggar, B. L., Greene, D. J., Black, K. J., & Chakrabarty, R. K. (2022). Fractality of tics as a quantitative assessment tool for Tourette syndrome. In Journal of The Royal Society Interface (Vol. 19, Issue 187). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2021.0742

2021

Beeler, P., & Chakrabarty, R. K. (2021). Disparities in PM2.5 exposure and population density influence SARS-CoV-2 transmission among racial and ethnic minorities. In Environmental Research Letters (Vol. 16, Issue 10, p. 104046). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac29ea

Zhang, C., Heinson, W. R., Garay, M. J., Kalashnikova, O., & Chakrabarty, R. K. (2021). Polarimetric sensitivity of light-absorbing carbonaceous aerosols over ocean: A theoretical assessment. In Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer (Vol. 272, p. 107759). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2021.107759

Luo, J., Zhang, Q., Zhang, C., Zhang, Y., & Chakrabarty, R. K. (2021). The fractal characteristics of atmospheric coated soot: Implication for morphological analysis. In Journal of Aerosol Science (Vol. 157, p. 105804). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaerosci.2021.105804

Verma, M., Pervez, S., Chow, J. C., Majumdar, D., Watson, J. G., Pervez, Y. F., Deb, M. K., Shrivas, K., Jain, V. K., Khan, N. A., Mandal, P., & Chakrabarty, R. K. (2021). Assessing the magnitude of PM2.5 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emissions from residential solid fuel combustion and associated health hazards in South Asia. In Atmospheric Pollution Research (Vol. 12, Issue 8, p. 101142). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apr.2021.101142

Sumlin, B., Fortner, E., Lambe, A., Shetty, N. J., Daube, C., Liu, P., Majluf, F., Herndon, S., & Chakrabarty, R. K. (2021). Diel cycle impacts on the chemical and light absorption properties of organic carbon aerosol from wildfires in the western United States. In Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (Vol. 21, Issue 15, pp. 11843–11856). https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-11843-2021

Johnson, P. R., Chakrabarty, R. K., & Kumfer, B. M. (2021). A modeling approach for soot formation in non-premixed flames with elevated stoichiometric mixture fraction. In Combustion and Flame (Vol. 229, p. 111383). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2021.02.029

Shetty, N., Beeler, P., Paik, T., Brechtel, F. J., & Chakrabarty, R. K. (2021). Bias in quantification of light absorption enhancement of black carbon aerosol coated with low-volatility brown carbon. In Aerosol Science and Technology (Vol. 55, Issue 5, pp. 539–551). https://doi.org/10.1080/02786826.2021.1873909

Chakrabarty, R. K., Beeler, P., Liu, P., Goswami, S., Harvey, R. D., Pervez, S., van Donkelaar, A., & Martin, R. V. (2021). Ambient PM2.5 exposure and rapid spread of COVID-19 in the United States. In Science of The Total Environment (Vol. 760, p. 143391). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143391

2020

Zhang, C., Heinson, W. R., Liu, P., Beeler, P., Li, Q., Jiang, J., & Chakrabarty, R. K (2020). Three-dimensional tomography reveals distinct morphological and optical properties of soot aggregates from coal-fired residential stoves in China. In Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer (Vol. 254, p. 107184). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2020.107184

Johnson, P. R., Chakrabarty, R. K., & Kumfer, B. M. (2020). Evaluation of semi-empirical soot models for nonpremixed flames with increased stoichiometric mixture fraction and strain. In Combustion and Flame (Vol. 219, pp. 70–85). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2020.04.019

Liu, P., Beeler, P., & Chakrabarty, R. K. (2020). Dynamic interplay between social distancing duration and intensity in reducing COVID-19 US hospitalizations: A “law of diminishing returns.” In Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science (Vol. 30, Issue 7). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0013871

Pandey, A., Hsu, A., Tiwari, S., Pervez, S., & Chakrabarty, R. K. (2020). Light Absorption by Organic Aerosol Emissions Rivals That of Black Carbon from Residential Biomass Fuels in South Asia. In Environmental Science & Technology Letters (Vol. 7, Issue 4, pp. 266–272). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.0c00058

Dumka, U. C., Gautam, A. S., Tiwari, S., Mahar, D. S., Attri, S. D., Chakrabarty, R. K., Permita, P., Hopke, P. K., & Hooda, R. (2020). Evaluation of urban ozone in the Brahmaputra River Valley. In Atmospheric Pollution Research (Vol. 11, Issue 3, pp. 610–618). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apr.2019.12.013

Gan, J., Liu, P., & Chakrabarty, R. K. (2020). Deep learning enabled Lagrangian particle trajectory simulation. In Journal of Aerosol Science (Vol. 139, p. 105468). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaerosci.2019.105468

2019

Bhandari, J., S. China, K. K. Chandrakar, G. Kinney, W. Cantrell, R. A. Shaw, L. R. Mazzoleni, G. Girotto, N. Sharma, K. Gorkowski, S. Gilardoni, S. Decesari, M. C. Facchini, N. Zanca, G. Pavese, F. Epsito, M. K. Dubey, A. C. Aiken, R. K. Chakrabarty, H. Moosmuller, T. B. Onasch, R. A. Zaveri, B. V. Scarnato, P. Fialho, and C. Mazzoleni (2019). Extensive Soot Compaction by Cloud Processing from Laboratory and Field Observations, Nature Scientific Reports. 10.1038/s41598-019-48143-y

Shetty, N., A. Pandey, S. Baker, W. M. Hao, and R. K. Chakrabarty (2019). Measuring Light Absorption by Organic Aerosols: Correction Factors for Solvent Extraction-Based Photometry Techniques, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-8817-2019, 2019

Liu, P., W. R. Heinson, C. M. Sorensen, and R. K. Chakrabarty (2019). Kinetics of sol-to-gel transition in irreversible particulate systems, J. Colloid. Interface. Sci., 550, 57-63. 10.1016/j.jcis.2019.04.067

Heinson, Y. W., C. M. Sorensen, and R. K. Chakrabarty (2019). Portable device to determine particle asymmetry parameter, Opt. Express, 27(7), 10152-10158. 10.1364/OE.27.010152

Teng, S., C. Liu, M. Schnaitar, R. K. Chakrabarty, and F. Liu (2019). Accounting for the effects of nonideal minor structures on the optical properties of black carbon aerosols, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19(5), 2917-2931. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-2917-2019

Sharma, G., Y. Wang, R. K. Chakrabarty, and P. Biswas (2019). Modeling simultaneous coagulation and charging of nanoparticles at high temperatures using the method of moments, J. Aerosol. Sci., 132, 70-82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaerosci.2019.03.011

Pervez, S., M. Verma, S. Tiwari, R. K. Chakrabarty, J. G. Watson, J. C. Chow, A. S. Panicker, M. K. Deb, M. N. Siddiqui, and Y. F. Pervez (2019). Household solid fuel burning emission characterization and activity levels in India, Sci. Total. Environ. 654, 493-504. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.019

Pandey, A., N. J. Shetty, and R. K. Chakrabarty (2019). Aerosol light absorption from optical measurements of PTFE membrane filter samples: sensitivity analysis of optical depth measures, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 12(2), 1365-1373. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-1365-2019

Sharma, G., S. Dhawan, N. Reed, R. K. Chakrabarty, and P. Biswas (2019). Collisional growth rate and correction factor for TiO2 nanoparticles at high temperatures in free molecular regime J. Aerosol. Sci., 127, 27-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaerosci.2018.10.002

2018

Verma, M, S. Pervez, D. Majumdar, R. K. Chakrabarty, and Y. F. Pervez (2018), Emission estimation of aromatic and halogenated VOCs from household solid fuel burning practices, Int. J. Environ. Sci. Technol. 16 (6), 2683-2692. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-018-1920-7

Chakrabarty, R. K. and W. R. Heinson (2018). Scaling Laws for Light Absorption Enhancement Due to Nonrefractory Coating of Atmospheric Black Carbon Aerosol Phys. Rev. Lett; 121 (21), 218701. 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.218701

(The research has been selected as an “Editors’ Suggestion” in Physical Review Letters; highlighted in multiple news outlet since Nov 2018)

Heinson, Y.W., P. Liu., W. R. Heinson, and R. K. Chakrabarty (2018). Breakdown of fractal dimension invariance in high monomer-volume-fraction aerosol gels, (Aerosol Research Letter) in Aerosol Sci. Tech., 52 (9), 953-956. https://doi.org/10.1080/02786826.2018.1492086

Sahu, R. K., S. Pervez, S. Tiwari, A. Panicker, R. K. Chakrabarty, J. C. Chow, J. G. Watson, and Y. S. Pervez (2018). Temporal and Spatial Variations of PM2.5 Organic and Elemental Carbon in Central India, Env. Geochem. Health, 40 (5), 2205-2222. 10.1007/s10653-018-0093-0

Liu, P., W. R. Heinson, B. J. Sumlin, K-Y. Shen, and R. K. Chakrabarty (2018) Establishing the kinetics of a ballistic-to-diffusive transition using directional statistics, Phys. Rev E. 97 (4), 042102. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.97.042102

(The research was highlighted as a mathematical breakthrough via a feature article in the Mathematics section of the Cosmos Magazine (14th June 2018 edition))

Sumlin B. J., Y. W. Heinson, R. Pattison, W. R. Heinson, W.M. Hao, and R. K. Chakrabarty (2018) UV–Vis–IR spectral complex refractive indices and optical properties of brown carbon aerosol from biomass burning, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer 206, 392-398. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2017.12.009

Sumlin B. J., C. Oxford, B. Seo, R. Pattison, B. J. Williams, and R. K. Chakrabarty (2018) Density and homogeneous internal composition of primary brown carbon aerosol Environmental Science & Technology 52 (7), 3982–3989. 10.1021/acs.est.8b00093

Sumlin, B. J.; W. R. Heinson, and R. K. Chakrabarty (2018) Retrieving the aerosol complex refractive index using PyMieScatt: A Mie computational package with visualization capabilities. J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer 205, 127-134. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1710.05288

(This article was one of the “top downloaded” articles 90 days since publication as tracked by Elsevier.)

2017

Sumlin, B. J., A. Pandey, M. J. Walker, R. S. Pattison, B. J. Williams, and R. K. Chakrabarty (2017). Atmospheric Photooxidation Diminishes Light Absorption by Primary Brown Carbon Aerosol from Biomass Burning, Environmental Science & Technology Letters 4 (12), 540-545. 10.1021/acs.estlett.7b00393

(This research finding was highlighted as the Dec 2017 cover of ES&T Letters and was syndicated by several media outlets including NPR)

Liu, P., W. R. Heinson, and R. K. Chakrabarty (2017). Fractal scaling of soot packing density across five size decades, Aerosol Science and Technology 51 (7), 879-886. https://doi.org/10.1080/02786826.2017.1316359

Yatavelli, R. L. N., L.-W. A. Chen, J. Knue, V. Samburova, M. Gyawali, , A. C. Watts, R. K. Chakrabarty, H. Moosmüller, A. Hodzic, X. Wang, B. Zielinska, J. C. Chow, and J. G. Watson (2017). Emissions and Partitioning of Intermediate-Volatility and Semi-Volatile Polar Organic Compounds (I/SV-POCs) during Laboratory Combustion of Boreal and Sub-Tropical Peat, Aerosol Science and Engineering 1 (1), 25-32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41810-017-0001-5

Wang, Y., G. Sharma, C. Koh, V. Kumar, R. K. Chakrabarty, and P. Biswas (2017). Influence of Flame-Generated Ions on the Simultaneous Charging and Coagulation of Nanoparticles during Combustion. Aerosol Science and Technology 51 (7), 833-844. https://doi.org/10.1080/02786826.2017.1304635

Drinovec, L., A. Gregorič, P. Zotter, R. Wolf, E. Bruns, A. S. Prévôt, J.-E. Petit, O. Favez, J. Sciare, I. J. Arnold, R. K. Chakrabarty, H. Moosmüller, A. Filep, and G. Močnik (2017). The filter loading effect by ambient aerosols in filter absorption photometers depends on the mixing state of the sampled particles, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 10 (3), 1043. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-1043-2017

Patel, S., J. Li, A. Pandey, S. Pervez, R. K. Chakrabarty, and P. Biswas (2017). Spatio-temporal measurement of indoor particulate matter concentrations using a wireless network of low-cost sensors in households using solid fuels, Environ. Res. 152, 59-65. 10.1016/j.envres.2016.10.001

Tiwari, S., U.C. Dumka, A.S. Gautam, D.G. Kaskaoutis, A.K. Srivastava, D.S. Bisht, R.K. Chakrabarty, B.J. Sumlin, and F. Solmon (2017). Assessment of PM 2.5 and PM 10 over Guwahati in Brahmaputra River Valley: Temporal evolution, source apportionment and meteorological dependence, Atmos. Poll. Res., 8(1), 13-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apr.2016.07.008

Heinson, W. R., P. Liu, and R. K. Chakrabarty (2017). Fractal scaling of coated soot aggregates, Aerosol Sci. Tech., 51 (1), 12-79. https://doi.org/10.1080/02786826.2016.1249786

2016

Ellis, A., R. Edwards, M. Saunders, R. K. Chakrabarty, R. Subramanian, N. E. Timms, A. Riessen, A. M. Smith, D. Lambrinidis, L. J. Nunes, P. Vallelonga, I. D. Goodwin, A. D. Moy, M. A. Curran, and T. D. Ommen (2016). Individual particle morphology, coatings, and impurities of black carbon aerosols in Antarctic ice and tropical rainfall, Geophys. Res. Lett. 43, 22. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL071042

Bisht, D. S., S. Tiwari, U.C. Dumka, A.K. Srivastava, P.D. Safai, S.D. Ghude, D.M. Chate, P.S.P. Rao, K. Ali, T. Prabhakaran, A.S. Panickar, V.K. Soni, S.D. Attri, P. Tunved, R.K. Chakrabarty, P.K. Hopke (2016). Tethered balloon-born and ground-based measurements of black carbon and particulate profiles within the lower troposphere during the foggy period in Delhi, India, Sci. Tot. Env. 573, 894-905.

Pandey, A., S. Pervez, and R. K. Chakrabarty (2016). Filter-based measurements of UV–vis mass absorption cross sections of organic carbon aerosol from residential biomass combustion: Preliminary findings and sources of uncertainty, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 182, 296-304.

Samburova, V., J. Connolly, M. Gyawali , Yatavelli, R. L. N., A. C. Watts, R. K. Chakrabarty, B. Zielinska, H. Moosmüller, and A. Khlystov (2016). Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in biomass-burning emissions and their contribution to light absorption and aerosol toxicity, Sci. Tot. Env. 568, 391-401

Tiwari, S., U.C. Dumka, P.K. Hopke, P. Tunved, A.K. Srivastava, D.S. Bisht, and R.K. Chakrabarty (2016) Atmospheric heating due to black carbon aerosol during the summer monsoon period over Ballia: A rural environment over Indo-Gangetic Plain, Atmos. Res., 178, 393-400

Pandey, A., and R. K. Chakrabarty (2016). Scattering directionality parameters of fractal black carbon aerosols and comparison with the Henyey–Greenstein approximation, Opt. Lett. 41 (14), 3351-3354

Dewangan, S., S. Pervez, R. K. Chakrabarty, J.G. Watson, J.C. Chow, Y. Pervez, S. Tiwari, and J. Rai (2016). Study of carbonaceous fractions associated with indoor PM2. 5/PM10 during Asian cultural and ritual burning practices, Building and Environment, 106, 229-236

Chakrabarty, R. K., M. Gyawali, R. L. N. Yatavelli, A. Pandey, A. C. Watts, J. Knue, L.-W. A. Chen, R. R. Pattison, A. Tsibart, V. Samburova, and H. Moosmüller (2016). Brown carbon aerosols from burning of boreal peatlands: microphysical properties, emission factors, and implications for direct radiative forcing, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16 (5), 3033-3040

Heinson, W. R. and R. K. Chakrabarty (2016). Fractal morphology of black carbon aerosol enhances absorption in the thermal infrared wavelengths, Opt. Lett., 41 (4), 808-811

Liu, P. and R. K. Chakrabarty (2016) Sensitivity analysis of aggregate morphology on mass-mobility relationship and improved parameterizations, Aerosol Sci. Tech., 50 (1), 63-70

S. Pervez, R.K. Chakrabarty, S. Dewangan, J.G. Watson, J.C. Chow, and J. L. Matawale (2016) Chemical speciation of aerosols and air quality degradation during the festival of lights (Diwali), Atmos. Poll. Res. 7 (1), 92-99

2015

Liu, P., I. J. Arnold, Y. Wang, Y. Yu, J. Fang, P Biswas, and R. K. Chakrabarty (2015) Synthesis of Titanium Dioxide Aerosol Gels in a Buoyancy-Opposed Flame Reactor, Aerosol Sci. Tech., 49:12, 1232-1241, DOI:10.1080/02786826.2015.1112356

Chakrabarty, R. K., M. Gyawali, R. L. N. Yatavelli, A. Pandey, A. C. Watts, J. Knue, L.-W. A. Chen, R. R. Pattison, A. Tsibart, V. Samburova, and H. Moosmüller (2015). Dominance of brown carbon in aerosol emissions from burning of boreal peatlands, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 15, 28793-28813, doi:10.5194/acpd-15-28793-2015

Ellis, A., R. Edwards, M. Saunders, R. K. Chakrabarty, R. Subramanian, A. van Riessen, A.M. Smith, D. Lambrinidis, L.J. Nunes, P. Vallelonga, I.D. Goodwin, A.D. Moy, M.A. Curran, T.D. van Ommen (2015). Characterizing black carbon in rain and ice cores using coupled tangential flow filtration and transmission electron microscopy, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 8, 3959-3969, doi:10.5194/amt-8-3959-2015, 2015.

Pervez, S., R. K. Chakrabarty, S. Dewangan, J.G. Watson, J.C. Chow, J.L. Matawle, and Y. Pervez (2015). Cultural and Ritual Burning Emission Factors and Activity Levels in India. Aerosol and Air Quality Research 15 (1), 72-80

Pandey, A., R. K. Chakrabarty, L. Liu, and M. I. Mishchenko (2015). Empirical relationships between optical properties and equivalent diameters of fractal soot aggregates at 550 nm wavelength. Opt. Express 23, A1354-A1362.

2014

Chakrabarty, R.K., N. Beres, H. Moosmuller, S. China, C. Mazzoleni, L. Liu, and M. I. Mishchenko (2014). Soot superaggregates from flaming wildfires and their direct radiative forcing. Nat Sci. Rep., 4(5508), pp 1-8

(This article was highlighted by Yahoo news, Nature Publication Group, Energywire, RedOrbit, and several leading newspapers worldwide. It is in the list of “Top 20 most accessed article” since June 2014 in Nature Scientific Reports)

Chakrabarty, R.K., I. V. Novosselov, N. Beres, H. Moosmuller, C.M. Sorensen, and C. B. Stipe (2014), Trapping and aerogelation of nanoparticles in negative gravity hydrocarbon flames. App. Phys. Lett., 104 (24), pp. 243103 (1-4)

Lack D., G. McMeeking, R. K. Chakrabarty, H. Moosmüller , and D. Baumgardner (2014). “Characterizing Elemental, Equivalent Black, and Refractory Black Carbon Aerosol Particles: A Review of Techniques, Their Limitations and Uncertainties.” Anal. Bioanal. Chem., 406 (1), 99-122

Chakrabarty, R. K., S. Pervez, J.C. Chow, J. G. Watson, S. Dewangan, J. Robles, and G. Tian (2014). “Funeral Pyres in India: Brown Carbon Aerosol Emissions and Climate Impacts”. Environ. Sci. Technol. Letters, DOI: 10.1021/ez4000669

(This work was highlighted by the Chemical and EngineeringNews (C&EN), Nature Publication Group, Climatewire, and several newspapers worldwide).

S. Pervez, R.K. Chakrabarty, S. Dewangan, and B. Zielinska, and (2014). “Uncharted sources of particle bound PAHs from South Asia: Religious and Ritual burning practices”. Atmospheric Pollution Research 5 (2), 283-291

2013

Ehlers K. M., R. K. Chakrabarty, and H. Moosmüller (2013). “Blue Moon and Martian Sunsets”. Applied Optics 53 (9), 1808-1819

Chakrabarty, R. K., I. J. Arnold, D.M. Francisco, B. Hatchett, F. Hosseinpour, M. Loria, A. Pokharel, and B. M. Woody (2013). Black and brown carbon fractal aggregates from combustion of two fuels widely used in Asian rituals. J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 122, 25–30.

Dewangan, S., R.K. Chakrabarty, B. Zielinska, and S. Pervez (2013). “Emission of volatile organic compounds from religious and ritual activities in India”. Environ. Mon. Assess., 185(11):9279-86 DOI: 10.1007/s10661-013-3250-z

(This work was highlighted by the Nature Publication Group and several Asian and British newspapers)

Dewangan, S., R.K. Chakrabarty, B. Zielinska, and S. Pervez (2013). “Indoor VOCs from religious and ritual burning practices in India”. Aerosol and Air Quality Res., 14, 1418-1430

Arnold, I.A., Cory Berger, Hans Moosmuller, Noopur Sharma, C. Mazzoleni, and R.K. Chakrabarty (2013). “The Iron Lung: A Device for the Continuous Delivery of Fine Particulate Matter”. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 85 (2), 025105

2012

Moosmüller, H., J. P. Engelbrecht, M. Skiba, G. Frey, R. K. Chakrabarty, and W. P. Arnott (2012). Single Scattering Albedo of Fine Mineral Dust Aerosols Controlled by Iron Concentration. J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 117, D11210, doi:10.1029/2011JD016909 (10 pages).

(This work was listed as one of the top 20 “Most Popular” articles by Journal of Geophysical Research between the period June and August 2012)

Chakrabarty, R. K., M. A. Garro, E. M. Wilcox, and H. Moosmüller (2012). Strong Radiative Heating due to Wintertime Black Carbon Aerosols in the Brahmaputra River Valley. Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, doi:10.1029/2012GL051148 (5 pages).

(This paper has been covered in Priyadarshini, S. (2012). Brahmaputra Valley Pushing ‘Glacier-Melting Pollutants’ into Himalayas. Nature India Science News, doi:10.1038/nindia.2012.71, http://www.nature.com/nindia/2012/120516/full/nindia.2012.71.html, and in several newspapers and reports.)

Chakrabarty, R. K., H. Moosmüller, M. A. Garro, and C. B. Stipe (2012). “Observation of Superaggregates from a Reversed Gravity Low-Sooting Flame”. (Aerosol Research Letter), Aerosol Sci. Tech., 46:1, i-iii

(Aerosol Research Letters (ARL) are short papers that, in the Editors’ and Reviewers’ opinions, describe especially significant developments in field of aerosol science. Acceptance rate for ARL is less than 10%)

2011

Moosmüller, H. and R. K. Chakrabarty (2011). “Technical Note: Simple Analytical Relationships between Ångström Coefficients of Aerosol Extinction, Scattering, Absorption, and Single Scattering Albedo”. Atm. Chem. Phys., 11, 10677-10680.

Chakrabarty, R. K., M. A. Garro, B. A. Garro, S. Chancellor, H. Moosmüller, and C. M. Herald (2011). “Simulation of Aggregates with Point-Contacting Monomers in the Cluster–Dilute Regime. Part 2: Comparison of Two- and Three-Dimensional Structural Properties as a Function of Fractal Dimension”. Aerosol Sci. Tech., 45, 893-898.

Moosmüller, H., R. K. Chakrabarty, K. M. Ehlers, and W. P. Arnott (2011). “Absorption Ångström Coefficient, Brown Carbon, and Aerosols: Basic Concepts, Bulk Matter, and Spherical Particles”. Atm. Chem. Phys., 11, 1217-1225

Chakrabarty, R. K., M. A. Garro, B. A. Garro, S. Chancellor, H. Moosmüller, and C. M. Herald (2011). “Simulation of Aggregates with Point-Contacting Monomers in the Cluster–Dilute Regime. Part 1: Determining the Most Reliable Technique for Obtaining Three-Dimensional Fractal Dimension from Two-Dimensional Images”. Aerosol Sci. Tech., 45, 75-80.

Pre 2010

Chakrabarty, R. K., H. Moosmüller, L.-W. A. Chen, K. Lewis, W. P. Arnott, C. Mazzoleni, M. Dubey, C. E. Wold, W. M. Hao, and S. M. Kreidenweis (2010). “Brown Carbon in Tar Balls from Smoldering Biomass Combustion”. Atm. Chem. Phys., 10, 6363-6370.

Chakrabarty, R. K., H. Moosmüller, W. P. Arnott, M. A. Garro, G. Tian, J. G. SlowikE. S. Cross, J.-H. Han, P. Davidovits, T. B. Onasch, and D. R. Worsnop. (2010). Reply to Comment on “Low Fractal Dimension Cluster-Dilute Soot Aggregates from a Premixed Flame”. Phys. Rev. Lett., 104, 119602 (1 page).

Lewis, K. A., W. P. Arnott, H. Moosmüller, R. K. Chakrabarty, C. M. Carrico, S. M. Kreidenweis, D. E. Day, W. C. Malm, A. Laskin, J. L. Jimenez, I. M. Ulbrich, J. A. Huffman, T. B. Onasch, A. Trimborn, L. Lui, and M. I. Mishchenko (2009). “Reduction in Biomass Burning Aerosol Light Absorption upon Humidification: Roles of Inorganically-Induced Hygroscopicity, Particle Collapse, and Photoacoustic Heat and Mass Transfer”. Atm. Chem. Phys., 9, 8949-8966.

Chakrabarty, R. K., M. A. Garro, S. Chancellor, C. Herald, and H. Moosmüller (2009). “FracMAP: A User-Interactive Package for Performing Simulation and Orientation-Specific Morphology Analysis of Fractal-Like Solid Nano-Agglomerates”. Comp. Phys. Comm., 180, 1376-1381.

Chakrabarty, R. K., H. Moosmüller, W. P. Arnott, M. A. Garro, G. Tian, J. G. SlowikE. S. Cross, J.-H. Han, P. Davidovits, T. B. Onasch, and D. R. Worsnop. (2009). “Low Fractal Dimension Cluster-Dilute Soot Aggregates from a Premixed Flame”. Phys. Rev. Lett., 102, 235504 (4 pages).

(This work was featured on the cover article “Electromechanics on the nanometer Scale: Emerging Phenomena, Devices, and Applications” of the Materials Research Society Bulletin (Vol. 34, Issue No.9, Sept 2009), and was highlighted by the Physical Review Focus (“Stringy Soot” Vol 23, June 12, 2009) and various other websites.)

Moosmüller, H., R. K. Chakrabarty, and W. P. Arnott (2009, invited). “Aerosol Light Absorption and its Measurement: A Review”. J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 110, 844-878.

(This work is the 5th most-cited and 3rd most downloaded of all articles published by the journal during the past nine years)

Chakrabarty, R. K., H. Moosmüller, M. A. Garro, W. P. Arnott, J. G. Slowik, E. S. Cross, J.-H. Han, P. Davidovits, T. B. Onasch, and D. R. Worsnop (2008). “Morphology Based Particle Segregation by Electrostatic Charge”. J. Aerosol Sci., 39, 785-792.

(This work was one of the top 25 hottest articles published in the journal between the period July and September 2008.)

Chakrabarty, R. K., H. Moosmüller, W. P. Arnott, M. A. Garro, J. G. Slowik, E. S. Cross, J.-H. Han, P. Davidovits, T. B. Onasch, and D. R. Worsnop (2007). “Light Scattering and Absorption by Fractal-Like Carbonaceous Chain Aggregates: Comparison of Experiment and Approximate Calculations”. Appl. Opt.46, 6990-7006.

Slowik, J. G., E. S. Cross, J.-H. Han, P. Davidovits, T. B. Onasch, J. T. Jayne, L. R. Williams, M. R. Canagaratna, D. R. Worsnop, R. K. Chakrabarty, H. Moosmüller, W. P. Arnott, J. P. Schwarz, R.-S. Gao, D. W. Fahey, G. L. Kok, and A. Petzold (2007). “An Inter-Comparison of Instruments Measuring Black Carbon Content of Soot Particles”. Aerosol Sci. Tech.41, 295-314.

(This article is the most-cited article between 2007 and 2010 in Aerosol Science and Technology.)

Chakrabarty, R. K., H. Moosmüller, W. P. Arnott, M. A. Garro, and J. W. Walker (2006). “Structural and Fractal Properties of Particles Emitted by Spark Ignition Engines”. Environ. Sci. Technol., 40, 6647-6654.

Chakrabarty, R. K., H. Moosmüller, M. A. Garro, W. P. Arnott, J. W. Walker, R. A. Susott, R. E. Babbitt, C. E. Wold, E. N. Lincoln, and W. M. Hao (2006). “Emissions from the Laboratory Combustion of Wildland Fuels: Particle Morphology and Size”. J. Geophys. Res., 111, D07204, doi:10.1029/2005JD006659.