Kinetics of heterogeneous nucleation in supersaturated vapor: fundamental limits to neutral particle detection revisited

Aerosol Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1053-1064

  McGraw, Robert ^a   Wang, Jian ^a   Kuang, Chongai ^a  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC EXPRESSIONS; BARRIER CROSSING; BARRIER CROSSING RATE; BENCHMARK CALCULATIONS; BULK CONTRIBUTIONS; CONDENSATION PARTICLE COUNTERS; FUNDAMENTAL LIMITS; HETEROGENEOUS NUCLEATION; MEAN FIRST PASSAGE TIME; NANO-SIZE; NEUTRAL PARTICLES; OPERATING CONDITION; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; SUPERSATURATED VAPORS; WORKING FLUID; ZERO CONTACT ANGLE;

CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; CONTACT ANGLE; KINETICS; TRACE ANALYSIS; VAPORS;

NUCLEATION;

NANOPARTICLE;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; NUCLEATION RATE; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SUPERSATURATED VAPOR; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMODYNAMICS; VAPOR;

EID: 84862538786     PISSN: 02786826     EISSN: 15217388     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02786826.2012.687844     Document Type: Article

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