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- Title
Can we Observe Gas Phase Nucleation at the Molecular Level?
- Authors
Ferreiro, Jorge J.; Gartmann, Thomas E.; Schläppi, Bernhard; Signorell, Ruth
- Abstract
We propose and discuss an experiment for the study of neutral gas phase nucleation on a molecular level using propane as the condensable gas. The experiment combines a uniform Laval expansion with soft mass spectrometric detection. The uniform Laval expansion allows nucleation experiments under well-defined conditions while the mass spectrometric detection provides molecular-level information on the molecular aggregates formed. It is discussed how one could observe the onset of nucleation and retrieve the size of the critical nucleus from the mass spectra.
- Subjects
NUCLEATION; PROPANE; MASS spectrometry
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, 2015, Vol 229, Issue 10/12, p1765
- ISSN
0942-9352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/zpch-2015-0603