Brandon Boor
Purdue University, IN·Engineering·Early-career
Americans spend about 90% of their time indoors, so the air inside homes and offices largely determines what they breathe. One important but poorly understood type of indoor pollution is nanoaerosols: particles smaller than 100 nanometers floating in the air.
- Fields
Engineering
Earth & Environmental Science
Public Health & Epidemiology
- Topics
indoor air quality
nanoaerosols
ultrafine particles
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Aug 2027
What they work on
- Investigate how organic nanoaerosols, airborne particles smaller than 100 nanometers, form indoors down to molecular length scales, using advanced aerosol instrumentation to observe nucleation events.
- Determine how nanoaerosol phase state (liquid-like versus solid-like) depends on source type, humidity, temperature and composition, and how it affects water uptake and capture by HVAC filters.
- Characterize how nanoaerosols form, grow and move under realistic building operation through field campaigns in the Purdue ReNEWW House and the Herrick Living Lab offices.
More about the research
Breathing particles from air pollution harms health. To predict how much of these tiny particles people breathe in, researchers need to know how they form, grow and move through buildings.
Why it matters
Knowing how tiny organic particles form and change indoors could improve predictions of what people breathe in homes and offices. It could also show how well HVAC filters remove these particles. This knowledge could help engineers and building operators improve indoor air quality and reduce health risks from particle pollution.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
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The school
Purdue University: 43 labs on PI Pages, $932M a year on research, 833 research doctorates a year.
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