18/01/2021 Method for Preparation of a Candidate Reference Material of PM10 and PM2.5 Airborne Particulate Filters Loaded with Incineration Ash-Inter Comparison Results for Metal Concentrations Alexandre Bescond of project partner LNE along with colleagues from project partners NPL and NTUA have produced an open access paper, Method for Preparation of a Candidate Reference Material of PM10 and PM2.5 Airborne Particulate Filters Loaded with Incineration Ash-Inter Comparison Results for Metal Concentrations. The paper is available to download here and also from our Documents and Publications page. The article originally appears in the MDPI journal Atmosphere 2021, 12, 67. 24/11/2020 Statistics of a Sharp GP2Y Low-Cost Aerosol PM Sensor Output Signals Klemen Bučar of the Jožef Stefan Institute and colleagues of project partner BAM along with colleagues from the University of Ljubljana, the Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), the Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio and the Institute Andrej Marušič have produced an open access paper Statistics of a Sharp GP2Y Low-Cost Aerosol PM Sensor Output Signals. The paper is available to download here and also from our Documents and Publications page. The article originally appears in the MDPI journal Sensors, Volume 20, Issue 23. 06/09/2020 Directed Self-Assembly of Polystyrene Nanospheres by Direct Laser-Writing Lithography (a) Scanning electron microscopy image of ordered polymeric nanoparticles inside micrometric structures. (b) Line graph reporting the orientation of the nanoparticles without any spatial confinement and in the presence of hexagonal or linear structures. (c) Colour map reporting the orientation of the nanoparticles in the SEM image (a). Eleonora Cara of INRIM and colleagues of project partner UPO have produced an open access paper. Directed Self-Assembly of Polystyrene Nanospheres by Direct Laser-Writing Lithography is available to download here and also from our Documents and Publications page. The article originally appears in Nanomaterials 2020, 10, 280. 07/05/2020 AEROMET Project: From Metrology to Air Quality and Climate Change Francisco J. Gómez-Moreno of project partner CIEMAT has produced an article in the (national Spanish) non-peer-reviewed journal “Vertice”. The article is in Spanish and English. The article, AEROMET Project: From Metrology to Air Quality and Climate Change provides a good introduction to the project and further detail on the comparison of measurements carried out by the CIEMAT MPSS. The article can be found here and over on our Documents and publications page 05/05/2020 Direct approach to determine the size setting error and size resolution of an optical particle counter Mathias Geisler and Kai Dirscherl of project partner DFM (Danmarks Nationale Metrologiinstitut) have produced an open access paper relating to activities under WP1.Direct approach to determine the size setting error and size resolution of an optical particle counter is available to download here, and also from our Documents and Publications page. The article originally appears in Review of Scientific Instruments, Volume 91, Issue 4. 08/04/2020 Experimental evaluation of the in-the-field capabilities of total-reflection X-ray fluorescence analysis to trace fine and ultrafine aerosol particles in populated areas János Osán and colleagues of project partners MTA-EK and UNICAS have produced an open access paper relating to activities under WP4 – Quantifying airborne particle compositions in the field of the project. Experimental evaluation of the in-the-field capabilities of total-reflection X-ray fluorescence analysis to trace fine and ultrafine aerosol particles in populated areas is available to download here and also from our Documents and Publications page. The article originally appears in Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy Volume 167, May 2020, 105852 06/02/2020 Towards the generation of synthetic ambient aerosols for instrument calibration and health studies (EMPIR AEROMET & EMPIR AeroTox) Konstantina Vasilatou of project partner METAS recently gave a dual EMPIR project presentation at the TC-Metrology in Chemistry (TC-MC) Annual Meeting, 5 February 2020 at METAS, Bern, Switzerland. As well as the AEROMET project, “Towards the generation of synthetic ambient aerosols for instrument calibration and health studies (EMPIR AEROMET & EMPIR AeroTox)” also illustrated work under the AeroTox project. The overall aim of the AeroTox project is to identify correlations between particle component/properties (metrics) with adverse outcome pathways that are associated with the induction of acute and chronic health effects within the European population. This will be delivered through the development of a new method for studying in vitro cytotoxicity based on the use of ‘tailored’ synthetic ambient aerosols combined with high-resolution optical imaging and state-of-the-art cell analysis methods. The Technical Committee of Metrology in Chemistry (TC-MC) is a Joint EURAMET-Eurachem Technical Committee. It is concerned with primary methods and reference materials for chemical measurements and research in metrology to support different sectors in chemistry. 02/01/2020 Calibration of optical particle counters: First comprehensive inter-comparison for particle sizes up to 5 μm and number concentrations up to 2 cm−3 Konstantina Vasilatou, Stefan Horender and Kevin Auderset of project partner METAS recently provided an article for Metrologia; Calibration of optical particle counters: First comprehensive inter-comparison for particle sizes up to 5 μm and number concentrations up to 2 cm-3 The article was cowritten with project partners Kai Discherl of DFM, as well as Kenjiro Iida and Hiromu Sakurai of the National Metrology Institute of Japan (NMIJ) and National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). The article reports on an inter-laboratory comparison for the calibration of light-scattering optical particle counters measuring the number concentration of airborne particles in the size range 300 nm – 5 μm. This comparison, registered as EURAMET pilot study Nr. 1453, is an important first step towards internationally recognized SI traceability in the measurement of low particle number concentrations encountered in clean-room facilities. The article is open access and is available to download here: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1681-7575/ab5c84 The article also fully acknowledges the EMPIR funding of the AEROMET project. 20/12/2019 Air Quality: Responding to new challenges Konstantina Vasilatou of project partner METAS recently gave an oral presentation at the Air Quality: Responding to new challenges conference which was held 10-11 December 2019 at the Royal Society of Chemistry in London. The presentation, “Towards the generation of synthetic ambient aerosols in the laboratory for calibration of PM monitors and low-cost sensors” was received at the conference as the UK Government launched its new Air Quality Strategy, tackling a broad range of sources including traffic, wood burning and agriculture. The conference looked at the increasing numbers of countries and cities that are making long-term commitments to phasing out petrol and diesel cars and increasing the focus on non-exhaust vehicle emissions, as well as current real-world exhaust emissions. As evidence of the health impacts of air pollution increase, cities are investigating and introducing new measures to meet EU Limit Values and protect their citizens. 08/11/2019 AEROMET at IMA2019; ‘Modern trends and applications in Instrumental Methods of Analysis’ Left: Dr. B. Beckhoff, PTB, invited speaker, right: Chairpersons of the sessions: Prof. P. Morales & Dr. D. Eichert The 11th International Conference IMA2019 (Instrumental Methods of Analysis-Modern Trends and Applications) took place with great success at the Grand Serai & Spa Hotel (www.grandserai.com) in Ioannina, Greece from September 22-25, 2019. IMA is a biannual series of conferences covering all areas of modern trends and applications of Chemical Analysis and started in 1999 under the initiative of Prof. M. Ochsenkϋhn-Petropoulou. IMA conferences bring together distinguished foreign and Greek scientists, young researchers and representatives of companies of modern analytical equipment, which show the state of the art in both instrumentation and new applications in interesting areas of food, medicine, environment, materials, archaeometry etc. At IMA2019 emphasis was given in three special sessions dedicated to food research and analysis (Foodomics), aerosol metrology and advanced X-Ray spectrometric techniques. IMA2019 was co-organized from the Analytical Chemistry Laboratories of the Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina (Prof. Tr. Albanis, Rector) and the School of Chemical Engineering of National Technical University of Athens, NTUA (Prof. M. Ochsenkϋhn-Petropoulou). The scientific program of IMA2019 consisted of 13 invited lectures from distinguished scientists in the field of instrumental methods of analysis, 60 oral presentations in 15 sessions, and 130 posters in 2 sessions, totally hosting around 300 participants from 20 different countries with significant representation from graduate and post-graduate students. From the partners of the AEROMET project, Dr. B. Beckhoff (PTB), Dr. P. Quincey (NPL) and Dr. B. Pollakowski-Hermann (BAM) participated with oral presentations in the two aerosol/X-ray analysis sessions. Furthermore a poster presentation by Dr. F. Tsopelas/Prof. M. Ochsenkϋhn-Petropoulou et al (NTUA) was shown. Dr. Beckhoff, as invited speaker, gave a plenary lecture on “The EMPIR AEROMET project-dimensional and analytical aerosol metrology based upon different traceability chains”. Dr. Quincey gave two lectures ,one on behalf of NPL entitled “AEROMET-the metrology of ambient particulate metals measurements and the example of the UK National Monitoring Network “ and the second one on “ AEROMET PROJECT- Protocol development for heavy metals analysis of collected aerosol size fractions” for LNE instead of L. Bregonzio-Rozier , who couldn’t participate. Dr. Pollakowski had an oral presentation on “Quantitative elemental analysis of ambient aerosol particles using portable TXR”, where Dr. S. Seeger was the first author. Dr. F. Tsopelas/ Prof. M.Ochsenkϋhn-Petropoulou et al presented a poster on :”Aerosol metrology for atmospheric science and air quality”. Furthermore, interesting contributions were given in the aerosol sessions by other participants, as Dr. K. Eleftheriadis and collaborators (NCSR, Demokritos), Dr. D. Eichert from EXSA, the major sponsor of the conference and others. On the website of IMA 2019 (www. ima 2019.gr) you can find more information, photos , the book of abstracts and the scientific journals where the papers of IMA 2019 could be published. Below the videos of IMA 2019 and of the ten past IMA conferences, created by Dr. Klaus Ochsenkϋhn (AEROMET partner): IΜΑ2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyoATuiQnNQ&t=5s ΙΜΑ1999-2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7bnmjjaHxw&t=74s Within the book of abstracts; B.Beckhoff (p.170), Seeger/Pollakowski (p.171), Quincey/ Goddar (p.172), Quincey/L.Bregonzio-Rozier (p.173) and Tsopelas/Ochsenkuehn (p.182) 08/11/2019 AEROMET at the Czech National Institute of Public Health Jiří Šperka of project partner ČMI recently presented a talk entitled “Laboratory aerosol measurements and environmental applications” at the Conference for Health and Environment at the National Institute of Public Health in Prague (Konference zdraví a životní prostředí) organized by the Czech National Institute of Public Health on 2nd October 2019. The AEROMET project was promoted in this talk. The conference focused on national health and safety issues and was especially targeted at a broad audience from the Czech Republic. 04/11/2019 AEROMET at the latest CCQM-GAWG Meeting Konstantina Vasilatou of project partner METAS recently gave a presentation at the last CCQM-GAWG meeting which took place on October 9 at METAS, Switzerland. The title of the presentation was “Towards the generation of synthetic ambient-like aerosols for the calibration of PM monitors and low-cost sensors”. The talk reported on the progress achieved so far within WP1 of the AEROMET project. The CCQM-GAWG (Consultative Committee for Amount of Substance: Metrology in Chemistry and Biology – Working Group on Gas Analysis) is part of the BIPM (Bureau international des poids et mesures / the International Bureau of Weights and Measures) the intergovernmental organization through which Member States act together on matters related to measurement science and measurement standards. 10/10/2019 AEROMET at EAC2019 Stefan Seeger of project partner BAM (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -Prüfung) recently presented the project at the European Aerosol Conference (EAC2019), 25-30 Aug. 2019, Gothenburg, Sweden. A two hour session as part of the official EAC program on Monday (26 Aug. 2019) afternoon was exclusively dedicated to the AEROMET project. While there have been 6 sessions in parallel the AEROMET session was attended by over 100 people. Together with an overview on the project 5 oral presentations and 1 poster highlighted results in the project’s scientific topics: • Towards the Generation of Synthetic Ambient Aerosols in the Laboratory (EMPIR-Aeromet Project) • Observation of Quickly Changing Element Mass Concentrations in an Ambient Aerosol Using Portable TXRF • Traceable and Reliable Chemical Analysis of Aerosols by X-ray Spectrometry • Mobility Particle Size Spectrometers: Calibration Procedures and Measurement Uncertainties • Characterization of Ambient Aerosols with Different Instrumentation — Experiences from two Field Campaigns • Performance of a Sharp GP2Y Low-cost Aerosol PM Sensor • Biomass combustion originated particles in ambient submicron aerosol (poster) The periodic EAC conferences are traditional meeting places and an exciting discussion forum for scientists from around the world working with basic aerosol research, development of aerosol techniques or applying one of its several techniques in a rich variety of scientific topics. The topics include nanotechnology, combustion aerosols, chemistry and physics of aerosols, medicine (inhalation, exposure and health), instrumentation, as well as indoor and ambient aerosols. The EAC2019 attracted over 1000 attendees. 24/09/2019 AEROMET feature in Electronic Supply Project partner DFM have issued an article in the (national Danish) non-peer-reviewed industrial magazine “Electronic Supply”. The article is in Danish in order to attract the attention of local instrument manufacturers and trade (import/export) industry. The article features an info-box which mentions the AEROMET project and references all national and international funding bodies.Kai Dirscherl of DFM says that “In short, we present the EMPIR project AEROMET and the need for traceably calibrated instruments in the context of air pollution. We then report on DFM’s own in-house calibration results of low-cost optical particle measuring instruments (PMS7003 and SDS021) and refer to a few public databases for air pollution in Europe.” 12/09/2019 11th International Conference on Instrumental Methods of Analysis: Modern Trends and Applications, IMA-2019 The University of Ioannina and project partner NTUA (National Technical University of Athens) will together bring the 11th International Conference on “Instrumental Methods of Analysis” (IMA-2019) to Ioannina, Epirus, Greece, on 22-25 September 2019. You can find a poster with further details of the event here. Further detail is also available here: www.ima2019.gr Maria Ochsenkühn-Petropoulou of NTUA will be co-chairing the Conference which has the involvement of other project partners. Burkhard Beckhoff of PTB is one of the invited speakers and two special sessions on aerosol metrology are scheduled on Tuesday Sept. 24 in the afternoon, where members of AEROMET will have oral presentations. For the 11th IMA conference, it is their collective ambition to bring together some of the most talented and innovative analytical chemists from all over the world for an excellent scientific conference in the picturesque city of Ioannina. The scientific program will consist of keynote lectures, oral and poster presentations, given by a wide mix of scientists ranging from established academics and world leaders in analytical chemistry, all the way through to dynamic and ambitious graduate students. In addition, they aim to attract contributions from commercial organizations, including presentations of new instrumentation, new applications and assessment of future commercial trends and opportunities. The University of Ioannina and the National Technical University of Athens anticipate a very energetic and dynamic scientific gathering! 10/09/2019 AEROMET at the Second Nordic Italian Polymer Future workshop Eleonora Cara of project partner INRIM recently presented on AEROMET at the Second Nordic Italian Polymer Future workshop, 2-3 September 2019 in Copenhagen. Eleonora’s presentation Sequential infiltration synthesis in block copolymers films: quantitative analysis by reference-free grazing-incidence X-ray fluorescence was put together in collaboration with project partners from Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) and Dipartimento di Scienza Applicata e Tecnologia (DISAT). The Workshop presents ongoing as well as planned polymer research within the two geographic entities for mutual exchange of knowledge and novel ideas that could develop into wider dissemination of research advances, industrial innovation and professional networking. 16/07/2019 Facility for calibration of optical and condensation particle counters based on a turbulent aerosol mixing tube and a reference optical particle counter Stefan Horender, Kevin Auderset and Konstantina Vasilatou of project partner METAS recently provided a paper on the calibration of optical particle counters (OPCs) and Optical Particle Size Spectrometers (OPSS) to Review of Scientific Instruments 90, 075111 (2019). Facility for calibration of optical and condensation particle counters based on a turbulent aerosol mixing tube and a reference optical particle counter can be found here and over on our Documents and Publications page. 16/05/2019 AEROMET at the European Geosciences Union Meeting 2019 Konstantina Vasilatou, Stefan Horender and Michaela Ess of project partner METAS recently provided an oral presentation at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) Meeting in Vienna, 7-12 April 2019, entitled ‘A novel facility to generate aerosol mixtures similar to outdoor aerosols‘. The EGU is Europe’s premier geosciences union, dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the Earth, planetary, and space sciences for the benefit of humanity, worldwide. The EGU General Assembly is the largest geosciences meeting in Europe, bringing together thousands of geoscientists from all over the world into one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary and space sciences. Konstantina also provided an oral presentation on work under WP1 at the ISO/TC24/SC4 (WG9 and 12) meeting in Graz, Austria, 11-12 April 2019. WG9 covers Single particle light interaction methods and WG12 covers Electrical mobility and number concentration analysis for aerosol particles. ISO is an independent, non-governmental international organization with a membership of 164 national standards bodies. Through its members, it brings together experts to share knowledge and develop voluntary, consensus-based, market relevant International Standards that support innovation and provide solutions to global challenges. 13/03/2019 AEROMET at REDMAAS 2019 Francisco Gómez-Moreno of project partner CIEMAT gave a presentation on the AEROMET project at the REDMAAS (Intercomparaciones de la Red Española de DMAs Ambientales / Atmospheric Particle Size Distributions in the Spanish Network of Environmental DMAs) meeting in Madrid on 7 March 2019, entitled “Aerosol Metrology for Atmospheric Science and Air Quality Project: Implications for REDMAAS”. Francisco’s presentation provided a general description of the project and also discussed elements surrounding instrumentation under WP3 – of interest to many Spanish organisations involved in measurements with SMPS of atmospheric aerosol. The results obtained during the SMPS intercomparison at TROPOS (November 2017) were deeply discussed and the conclusions applied to the REDMAAS campaings. WP1 was also considered very interesting by the REDMAAS participants as most of them are involved in PM10 and PM2.5 measurements. 30/01/2019 AEROMET at IMA2019, Ioannina, GR The next international IMA conference (Instrumental Methods of Analysis-Modern Trends and Applications), will take place from 26-29 September 2019 in Ioannina, Epirus, Greece. The conference will be co-organized by the University of Ioannina and project partner NTUA (National Technical University of Athens). As before for the IMA2017 conference, presentations are also expected from other partners in the AEROMET project. The first announcement and details of the conference website will be made available soon. 07/01/2019 A WP5 update from INRiM Luca Boarino of project partner INRiM (Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica) has provided an update illustrating some of the work progressing between February and November 2018 under WP5. Work on activities under Task 5.1 are almost complete except for the deposition of the selected NPs (nanoparticles) on a flat substrate due to aggregation of the NPs and ageing of sample might be a cause. A new set of core-shell nanoparticles is in preparation. Also under Task 5.1, nano-scaled samples such as diblock copolymers (BCP) infiltrated with Al2O3, and Aluminum nanodisks have been prepared and are under evaluation. Work on activities under Task 5.2 are currently ongoing. GIXRF measurements were performed in the PTB laboratory at the BESSY II synchrotron radiation facility to test homogeneity of Al and to analyze depth-profiling of the infiltrated Al profile to get a complete comprehension of the Al distribution and quantification. 04/01/2019 AEROMET at the Transport, Health and Environment Conference 2018 Jiří Šperka of project partner ČMI recently presented a talk entitled “Metrology for air quality measurement” at the Eighth Conference of Transport, Health and Environment (Doprava, zdraví a životní prostředí) organized by the Czech Transport Research Centre in Brno (https://www.cdv.cz/en/) on 19–20 November 2018. The AEROMET project was promoted in this talk. The conference is held once every two years, and is especially targeted at a broad audience from the Czech and Slovak Republics. The conference focusses on sustainable transport and related health issues. 08/11/2018 AEROMET at EMRS Fall 2018 Philipp Hönicke of project partner PTB recently presented a poster at the 2018 E-MRS Fall Meeting which was held in Warsaw University of Technology, from September 17 to 20. The poster was presented in symposium L “Advances in nanoparticles: synthesis, characterization, theoretical modelling, and applications”. Characterization of artificial and aerosol nanoparticles with reference-free grazing incidence X-ray fluorescence analysis was created by Philipp as well as other PTB colleagues and presents work which is relevant to WP 5 of the AEROMET project. The poster is available to download now and also from our Documents and Publications page. The conference consisted of 21 parallel symposia with invited speakers, oral and poster presentations and a plenary session that provided an international forum for discussing recent advances in the field of materials science. Eleonora Cara of project partner INRiM also provided an oral presentation at the meeting. Sequential infiltration synthesis of block copolymers films: depth profiling study by grazing incidence X-ray fluorescence – looked at the joint work of PTB and INRiM created within the project. 01/11/2018 AEROMET at IAC 2018 Konstantina Vasilatou of project partner METAS recently presented a poster at the International Aerosol Conference (IAC) which took place in St. Louis, Missouri (USA), September 2-7, 2018. The IAC is held once every four years by an aerosol association on behalf of the International Aerosol Research Assembly (IARA), and rotates between Asia, Europe and America. The IAC attracts attendees from all over the world, sharing the latest in aerosol science and technology research. Laboratory-generated coated soot aerosols with tunable physical, chemical and optical properties using a CAST generator and a portable Micro Smog Chamber was created by Konstantina as well as other METAS colleagues and in participation with The University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland also. The work is relevant to WP1 of the AEROMET project. Paul Quincey of project partner NPL also provided a more general AEROMET poster at the same conference. Aerosol metrology for atmospheric science and air quality: the AEROMET project – is available to download now from our Documents and Publications page. 29/10/2018 AEROMET at the International Awareness Forum on Environment, Energy and Public Health Paul Quincey of NPL presented an update on the metrological comparisons of Aerosol Electrometers and Condensation Particle Counters, carried out at TROPOS in November 2017, to the Gas Analysis Working Group of CIPM’s Consultative Committee on Quantity of Matter, in Querétaro, Mexico on 8 October 2018. At the same venue, he also presented some parts of the AEROMET project, specifically those relating to PM calibration in WP1, in a talk at the International Awareness Forum on Environment, Energy and Public Health, organised by the Organisation of American States and NIST, on 11 October 2018. 08/10/2018 AEROMET at Researchers Night 2018 The NTUA (National Technical University of Athens) AEROMET team participated in the RESEARCHERS NIGHT 2018. The open access event took place on 28 September 2018 in the old building of NTUA in the centre of Athens. More than 1000 people visited this event, where all departments of NTUA have presented their scientific achievements including AEROMET. The NTUA, is among the oldest higher education institutions of Greece and the most prestigious among engineering schools. 06/07/2018 AEROMET at the 17th ESEAC, 2018 Fotis Tsopelas of project partner NTUA (National Technical University of Athens) presented a poster at the 17th International Conference on Electroanalysis, ESEAC 2018, which was held in Rhodes, Greece, June 3-7 2018. The poster was presented during poster session II and referred to the thematic session of the conference “Applied electroanalysis”. A comparative study of the performance of anodic stripping voltammetry with ICP-MS for the quantification of trace metals in two candidate reference materials and in airborne particulate matter was created by Fotis and other NTUA researchers and presents the whole scope of the project and preliminary work which is relevant to WP4 of AEROMET. The conference consisted of 7 parallel symposia with plenary and keynote speakers, oral and poster presentations covering advances in the field of electroanalysis from theoretical aspects to practical applications, including environmental monitoring. 12/06/2018 AEROMET at the “Air Contamination and Particles in Working Environments” Workshop Kai Dirscherl and Guanghong Zeng of project partner DFM recently presented a poster at the “Air Contamination and Particles in Working Environments” Workshop in June. The event is a national (Danish) workshop, organized by project partner DTI (Danish Technological Institute). Approximately 50 participants from Danish industry and regulation authorities discussed air contamination. Aerosol Metrology for Atmospheric Science and Air Quality by Guanghong Zeng and Kai Dirscherl is available to download now from our Documents and Publications page. 05/06/2018 16ENV07 AEROMET: M18 Project meeting, November 28-29, 2018, Brno The M18 AEROMET project meeting will be held this November in Brno. The meeting will feature WPL moderated sessions from work packages 1 – 6. Each partner is invited to briefly present the progress and perspectives on their respective work package activities. In preparation for the reporting, there will also be administrative aspect to the meeting. For further details, please contact Burkhard Beckhoff. 04/06/2018 AEROMET at the 7th Regular National Metrology Conference Maria Ochsenkuehn-Petropoulou, of project partner NTUA (National Technical University of Athens) recently presented an overview of the AEROMET project at the 7th Regular National Conference in Athens, 11-12 May 2018. Maria’s presentation “Aerosol Metrology for atmospheric science and air quality” by Maria Ochsenkuehn-Petropoulou, Fotios Tsopelas, Theopisti Lymperopoulou, Lamprini-Areti Tsakanika, Klaus Ochsenkuehn and B Beckhoff was presented during the Chemical Measurements session. The biannual conference was organized by NTUA and the Greek Laboratory Association (HellasLab) and gathered Greek scientists and Companies dealing with Metrology. It is the most important Metrology conference in Greece covering the fields of electrical, chemical, physical, surveying and radiation metrological issues. 20/02/2018 Successful M9 AEROMET Project meeting The AEROMET Project team at the M9 Meeting. Top right: Paul Quincey, NPL and Bottom Right: Alfred Wiedensohler, TROPOS A successful M9 AEROMET Project meeting took place in Turin 15-16 February, 2018. The meeting was hosted by project partner INRiM (Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica). The partners came together to look at the work that had been completed in the first nine months of the project and looked ahead at the work required towards M18. 16/01/2018 AEROMET at IMA2017; ‘Modern trends and applications in Instrumental Methods of Analysis’ IMA Sep 2017: (left) celebrating the tenth anniversary. (right) IMA2017 was attended by 220 participants from 23 different countries with significant representation from graduate students of Greek and foreign universities The tenth International Conference IMA2017 (Instrumental Methods of Analysis-Modern Trends and Applications) took place with great success at the AQUILA ATLANTIS Hotel in Heraklion, Crete from September 17-21 2017. IMA is a biannual series of conferences covering all areas of modern trends and applications of Chemical Analysis and was started in 1999 under the initiative of Prof. M. Ochsenkϋhn-Petropoulou. The IMA conferences bring together distinguished foreign and Greek scientists, young researchers and representatives of companies of modern analytical equipment, which show the state of the art in both instrumentation and new applications in interesting areas of food, medicine, environment and materials. From the partners of the AEROMET project, Dr. Burckhard Beckhoff of PTB and Dr. Konstantina Vasilatou of METAS participated with oral presentations. Dr. Beckhoff, as invited speaker gave a plenary lecture on “ Characterization of advanced materials and particles at the nano- and microscales by X-ray spectrometry using calibrated instrumentation” and Dr. K.Vasilatou on “Towards new reference methods for the accurate determination of PM2.5(10) in ambient air based on the generation of synthetic ambient aerosols”. Furthermore, Dr. Angeliki Zossima from the team of Prof. Maria Ochsenkuehn-Petropoulou, NTUA, gave a related to the air pollution oral presentation in the session environment on “Particulate matter emissions from combustion of different types of biomass” (http://www.ima2017.gr/index_htm_files/Proceedings.pdf). IMA2017 was attended by 220 participants from 23 different countries with significant representation from graduate students of Greek and foreign universities. The scientific program consisted of 16 invited and plenary lectures, 57 oral presentations in 16 parallel sessions, and 140 posters in 3 poster sessions. On the website of IMA 2017 (www. ima 2017.gr) you can find more information, photos/videos, the book of abstracts and the scientific journals where the papers of IMA 2017 will be published. Please find below, videos from IMA 2017: Video 1 / Video 2 / Video 3 16/01/2018 The European Centre for Aerosol Calibration (ECAC) under ACTRIS-2 completed in September 2017 an inter-laboratory comparison for the measurement of total carbon (TC), elemental carbon (EC) and organic carbon (OC) in particulate matter collected on filters: Results of the inter-laboratory comparison exercise for TC and EC measurements. The aim of this comparison was to evaluate the performances of the measurement method (i.e. reproducibility and repeatability) and of individual laboratories (biases). NPL participated as a member of both AQUILA and AEROMET. The report is also available from our Documents & Publications page. 12/12/2017 Jiří Šperka of the Czech Metrology Institute (CMI) recently contributed a poster presentation at the European Aerosol Conference, August 27 – September 1, 2017 at the University of Zürich. Jiří’s presentation focused on the real and virtual atomic force microscopy measurements of regular and non-regular particles in combination with their evaluation in Gwyddion software (see http://gwyddion.net/). The real atomic force microscopy measurements were performed on regular polymer microspheres (nominated diameter 100 nm and 296 nm) and non-regular gold nanorods (dimensions 25 nm x 47 nm – D x L). Generation of virtual particles was also done in Gwyddion software. This study performed on particles with well-known parameters is important for precise understanding of atomic force microscopy measurements of real aerosol particles. Jiří’s presentation and an abstract regarding aerosol measurements and modelling at CMI are available now from our Documents and publications page. 12/12/2017 16ENV07 AEROMET: Project meeting, 15-16 February 2018, Turin An AEROMET project meeting will be held next February in Turin. The meeting will feature WPL moderated sessions from work packages 1 – 6. Each partner is invited to briefly present the progress and perspectives on their respective work package activities. In preparation for the reporting, there will also be administrative aspect to the meeting. On the second day of the meeting, we will have a stakeholder Q & A session in which the stakeholders will be updated about the current progress of the project. The meeting will conclude with an open discussion in groups related to the technical work packages. For further details, please contact Burkhard Beckhoff or Bianka Hahn. 01/12/2017 On 22. November 2017 an international conference on dust research called the 4th German Staubtag was executed in the MARUM (Center for Marine Environmental Sciences) institute in Bremen (Germany). About 40 research scientists from Germany, UK, Austria and the Netherlands discussed their recent scientific findings and introduced their projects in the presentation and poster sessions. A poster of the EMPIR AEROMET project was presented by Carmen Friese (BAM) during the poster session. The poster received attention by the scientific community and possible future collaborations could be elaborated. Mass spectrometry measurements, the study of agricultural dust samples and the execution of wind tunnel experiments may be accomplished by collaborations with the KIT (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany) and ZALF (Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung, Germany). These analyses may improve the investigation of the composition of airborne particles and the calibration of instruments. 02/11/2017 An article on an aspect of work that has been completed in the frame of the AEROMET project has recently been published in Aerosol Science and Technology Mobility particle size spectrometers: Calibration procedures and measurement uncertainties by A. Wiedensohler, A. Wiesner, K. Weinhold, W. Birmili, M. Hermann, M.Merkel, T. Müller, S. Pfeifer, A. Schmidt, T. Tuch, F. Velarde, P. Quincey, S.Seeger & A. Nowak is now available to download from our Documents and Publications page. 30/08/2017 Dr Burkhard Beckhoff of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Berlin, Germany has been invited to give a talk about the AEROMET Project and the Characterization of advanced materials and particles at the nano- and microscales by X-ray spectrometry using calibrated instrumentation at the 10th International Conference on Instrumental Methods of Analysis (IMA 2017) on the 17-21 September 2017, Heraklion, Greece. Further details can be found here; http://www.ima2017.gr/ 14/06/2017 16ENV07 AEROMET – Kick-off meeting A successful Kick Off meeting for the AEROMET Project was held at Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Berlin, Germany in June.
