A short note we’re excited about, led by Chris Brunet in Keri Hornbuckle’s group at The University of Iowa - College of Engineering: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.6c02638 

The paper is essentially a shout‑out to Xiao et al. (2026) for collecting and publishing measurements from understudied regions—including Accra, Kuala Lumpur, Islamabad, and Nairobi. We then use those data to evaluate our global volatile methylsiloxane (VMS) model.

Why VMS? These compounds are a ubiquitous source of anthropogenic silicon in the atmosphere. You find manmade organosilicon molecules—and their oxidation products—across the globe at ppt and ppq levels, and we've been working out the fractions of parent compounds, oxidation products, gases, and aerosols.