On Sept. 21, 2021, a group of AirUCI faculties led by Prof. B. J. Finlayson-Pitts was awarded a nearly $2 millions California’s Automobile Emissions Research & Technology Fund grant to study gases and particles generated from non-tailpipe car emissions such as those originating from brakes and tires.  As society transitions away from fossil fuel, these emissions will remain and it is critical to characterize them.  It is a large multidisciplinary project that will involve the design of a facility that will allow to generate and characterize brake and tire particles, as well as the development of analytical techniques to measure both gases and particles chemical composition released from these materials.  In addition, the effects that the chemicals found in these emissions have on air quality and human health will be studied through toxicology and population-level exposures.  Communities of an environmental justice neighborhood (Santa Ana) are actively integrated in this project and a field campaign will take place at a later date.  Our very first experiment was a success but there is so much more to learn about and discover! – More information on this project at “Beyond the tailpipe”.