Airborne Microplastics Warming Planet | New Study
Explore how airborne microplastics and nanoplastics contribute to global warming through direct radiative forcing, equivalent to 16% of black carbon. Insights from Fudan and Duke researchers.
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Professor Hongbo Fu is a professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering at Fudan University. He obtained his Ph.D. from Dalian University of Technology in 2004 and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemistry at Tsinghua University before joining Fudan University. His research focuses on single-particle aerosols, iron-involved aerosol chemistry, atmospheric photochemistry, microplastics and nanoplastics, and aerosol climate effects. He has conducted research visits at the Institute of Research on Catalysis and Environment of Lyon in France and the Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research at the University of Iowa in the United States.
Professor Fu was selected for the Ministry of Education’s Program for New Century Excellent Talents and awarded the Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program. He has received the Shanghai Municipal Natural Science Award (Second-Class) and the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education (Second-Class). He has secured multiple competitive grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and Shanghai municipal programs. Professor Fu has published more than 150 SCI papers in journals including the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Environmental Science & Technology, Journal of Geophysical Research, and Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, with total citations exceeding 11,000. He has been recognized as an Elsevier Highly Cited Researcher in China. He serves on editorial boards of the Global Journal of Analytical Chemistry and Environmental Science & Technology (Chinese core journal).
Explore how airborne microplastics and nanoplastics contribute to global warming through direct radiative forcing, equivalent to 16% of black carbon. Insights from Fudan and Duke researchers.