The PSI Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry studies gases and aerosols in the atmosphere, affected by energy systems and impacting air quality, weather, climate change and human health.
Lab News & Scientific Highlights
Preparing the Future of PSI Large Facilities in Atmospheric Research
The Multiphase Chemistry Group in the Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry (LAC) looks back to a nearly 20 years record of activities with in situ X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and in situ scanning transmission X-ray spectromicroscopy (STXM) to address key fundamental questions in atmospheric chemistry. This is the time to consider new horizons, align with current and future needs in atmospheric sciences, and to identify novel opportunities driven by upcoming trends in methods, technologies and facilities. This has been the topic of the Workshop ‘X-ray and Neutron Spectroscopy, Scattering and Imaging in Atmospheric Chemistry’, held at PSI 13 – 15 November 2024.
Getting to the roots of a global health problem
Imad El Haddad analyses the chemical composition and health impacts of particulate matter at the Center for Energy and Environmental Sciences of the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI.
Sources of smog in Beijing identified
Researchers at PSI are investigating the wide range of causes underlying smog in Beijing.
Can aerosols stop global warming?
Injecting particles into the stratosphere to cool the earth? In our interview, PSI researcher Markus Ammann comments critically on the controversial subject of solar geoengineering.
Publications
-
A. A, Kalal S, Saravanan K, Ojha S, Stahn J, Gupta M
Study of structural and magnetic properties of Pd-doped Co4N thin films
Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism. 2025; 38(1): 17 (7 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10948-024-06880-w
DORA PSI -
Aastrup Jørgensen J
Tuning expression of GPCRs for the secretory pathway in the baculovirus-insect cell expression system
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Biomembranes. 2025; 1867(2): 184397 (10 pp.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbamem.2024.184397
DORA PSI -
Agarwal M, Zika A, Yücel M, Schweins R, Kohlbrecher J, Gröhn F
The role of light irradiation and dendrimer generation in directing electrostatic self-assembly
Polymers. 2025; 17(2): 170 (27 pp.). https://doi.org/10.3390/polym17020170
DORA PSI