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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 54, Issue 22, Pages 14372-14379Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c04163
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- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation [G-2016-7409, G-2019-11404]
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Organic films on indoor surfaces are ubiquitous, but details about their composition and growth over timescales less than a month are not fully understood. To address these gaps in understanding, organic film samples in an apartment unit were collected over the course of 17 days using passive samplers and analyzed in a non-targeted manner using direct analysis in real-time mass spectrometry (DART-MS). Overall, the chemical composition observed across various locations within the apartment are very similar. Mass spectra also show clear evidence for the growth of semi-volatile compounds from natural sources and consumer products, such as carboxylic acids and plasticizers. Certain compounds show evidence for equilibration, mostly consistent with surface partitioning models based on octanol-air partition coefficients (K-oa). Compounds which have higher molecular weight or larger K-oa values tend to equilibrate later, leading to an overall shift in the composition of the film as a function of collection time. Growth rates of film thickness are at least 0.05 nm/day based on a limited number of individually calibrated ions.
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