ASU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry -Graduate Studies in Chemistry and Biochemistry, Chemistry, Biochemistry

Guided Faculty Research Tour

	Kouji Adachi is a postdoctoral research associate in Peter Buseck's lab: “It is very exciting to be at ASU. The facilities are wonderful, and I love having the opportunity to do cutting-edge research on materials in ways that were not previously possible.”
Stereo pair of a soot particle from diesel exhaust and imaged using electron tomography on a transmission electron microscope. Scale bar represents 200 nanometers.
Are soot particles really spherical? Soot, like the greenhouse gases, is an important contributor to global warming. It is a major constituent of the atmosphere through emissions from industry, automobiles, and biomass burning. Its radiative properties depend strongly on its shape. All current climate models assume it forms in spherical particles, but does it really? The group of ASU Professor Buseck is using advanced methods of electron microscopy to determine the 3-dimensional shapes of nanoparticles like soot and evaluate their effects on climate and climate change. Visit Professor Buseck’s Web Page
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