HUGO DESTAILLATS
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Last update: April 2009 
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
My research interests comprise different areas of environmental chemistry:
1) the study of fate and transport of organic pollutants,
2) the characterization of pathways of human exposure to toxic environmental contaminants,
3) the development of advanced remediation technologies and materials for water and air treatment.
My recent work has focused on chemical transformations of pollutants in the indoor environment. A better understanding of chemical processes taking place in indoor air and surfaces can contribute to improve exposure assessments, and to develop novel functionalized building materials and furnishings. These materials can prevent pollutant formation and/or catalyze their removal. Similarly, air cleaning technologies relying on photocatalytic degradation of volatile organic compounds have the potential to remove significant amounts of airborne indoor pollutants, or to maintain acceptable levels with reduced outdoor air supply and concomitant energy savings in buildings.
THE BIG PICTURE:
TOWARDS HEALTHY AND SUSTAINABLE INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS
Our societies are facing the combined challenges of energy shortages and climate change adaptation and mitigation. The built environment plays a key role in these complex problems: it is the principal setting for human exposure to pollutants, and a major consumer of material and energy resources. Currently, innovative green buildings and zero-energy buildings are test beds for a broad range of energy conservation features, for distributed generation and use of renewable energy, and for the use of novel construction materials and furnishings. Most of these changes also affect indoor air quality, in ways that need to be better characterized. An important goal of my work is to identify the innovative building technologies, materials and practices that will help reduce the environmental footprint of urban development and improve indoor environmental quality.
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
"Efficiency of clay-TiO2 nanocomposites on the photocatalytic elimination of a model hydrophobic air pollutant"
D. Kibanova, J. Cervini-Silva and H. Destaillats. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2009, 43, 1500-1506.
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“Performance of ultraviolet photocatalytic oxidation for indoor air cleaning applications”
A.T. Hodgson, H. Destaillats, D.P. Sullivan and W.J. Fisk.
Indoor Air, 2007, 17, 305-316.
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“Effect of ozone on nicotine desorption from model surfaces: evidence for heterogeneous chemistry”
H. Destaillats, B.C. Singer, S.K. Lee and L.A. Gundel.
Environ. Sci. Technol.
2006, 40, 1799-1805.
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“Indoor secondary pollutants from the use of household products in the presence of ozone. A bench scale study”
H. Destaillats, M.M. Lunden, B.C. Singer, B.K. Coleman, A.T. Hodgson, C.J. Weschler and W.W. Nazaroff.
Environ. Sci. Technol.
2006, 40, 4421-4428.
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“Synergistic effects on sonolysis combined with ozonolysis for the oxidation of azobenzene and methyl orange”
H. Destaillats, A. J. Colussi, J. M. Joseph and M. R. Hoffmann,
J. Phys. Chem. A
2000, 104, 8930-8935.
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Contact information
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1 Cyclotron Road MS 70-108B
Berkeley, CA 94729, USA
Phone:(+1-510) 486-5897
Email: HDestaillats@lbl.gov
P.O. Box 975306
Tempe, AZ 85287-5306, USA
Phone:(+1-480) 965-3171
Email: HDestaillats@asu.edu