New particle formation in the atmosphere: From molecular clusters to global climate

SH Lee, H Gordon, H Yu, K Lehtipalo… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
New particle formation (NPF) represents the first step in the complex processes leading to
formation of cloud condensation nuclei. Newly formed nanoparticles affect human health, air …

Modeling the formation and growth of atmospheric molecular clusters: A review

J Elm, J Kubečka, V Besel, MJ Jääskeläinen… - Journal of Aerosol …, 2020 - Elsevier
Molecular clusters are ubiquitous constituents of the ambient atmosphere, that can grow into
larger sizes forming new aerosol particles. The formation and growth of small clusters into …

Manufacturing Acidities of Hydrogen-Bond Donors in Deep Eutectic Solvents for Effective and Reversible NH3 Capture

WJ Jiang, JB Zhang, YT Zou, HL Peng… - ACS Sustainable …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Solvents with appropriate acidity are required to simultaneously realize efficient and
reversible absorption of NH3. To achieve this goal, a series of 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium …

Atmospheric sulfuric acid–multi-base new particle formation revealed through quantum chemistry enhanced by machine learning

J Kubecka, I Neefjes, V Besel, F Qiao… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The formation of molecular clusters and secondary aerosols in the atmosphere has a
significant impact on the climate. Studies typically focus on the new particle formation (NPF) …

Effective and Reversible Capture of NH3 by Ethylamine Hydrochloride Plus Glycerol Deep Eutectic Solvents

WJ Jiang, FY Zhong, Y Liu, K Huang - … Sustainable Chemistry & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Achieving effective and reversible capture of ammonia (NH3) is an important task in the
chemical industry, to avoid the air pollution potentially induced by NH3 emission, and …

Atmospheric clusters to nanoparticles: Recent progress and challenges in closing the gap in chemical composition

JN Smith, DC Draper, S Chee, M Dam, H Glicker… - Journal of Aerosol …, 2021 - Elsevier
Aerosol nanoclusters (AN), defined here as molecular aggregates suspended in a gas with
dimensions between 2 and 10 nm, are the link between substances that we think of as …

Quantum chemical modeling of atmospheric molecular clusters involving inorganic acids and methanesulfonic acid

M Engsvang, H Wu, Y Knattrup, J Kubečka… - Chemical Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Atmospheric molecular cluster formation is the first stage toward aerosol particle formation.
Despite intensive progress in recent years, the relative role of different vapors and the …

The role of nitric acid in atmospheric new particle formation

L Liu, H Li, H Zhang, J Zhong, Y Bai, M Ge… - Physical Chemistry …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Nitric acid, an air pollutant with strong acidity and oxidizability, can be found in considerable
quantities in the gas and aerosol phase. Understanding the role of nitric acid in atmospheric …

Piperazine enhancing sulfuric acid-based new particle formation: implications for the atmospheric fate of piperazine

F Ma, HB Xie, J Elm, J Shen, J Chen… - … science & technology, 2019 - ACS Publications
Piperazine (PZ), a cyclic diamine, is one of 160 detected atmospheric amines and an
alternative solvent to the widely used monoethanolamine in post-combustion CO2 capture …

Computational chemistry of cluster: Understanding the mechanism of atmospheric new particle formation at the molecular level

X Zhang, S Tan, X Chen, S Yin - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
New particle formation (NPF), which exerts significant influence over human health and
global climate, has been a hot topic and rapidly expands field of research in the …