Atmospheric nanoparticles formed from heterogeneous reactions of organics

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 238-242

  Wang, Lin ^a   Khalizov, Alexei F ^a   Zheng, Jun ^a   Xu, Wen ^a   Ma, Yan ^a,b   Lal, Vinita ^a   Zhang, Renyi ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; HETEROGENEITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMERIZATION; RADIATIVE FORCING; RELATIVE HUMIDITY;

EID: 77950436195     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo778     Document Type: Article

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