Simplified mechanism for new particle formation from methanesulfonic acid, amines, and water via experiments and ab initio calculations

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 46, 2012, Pages 18719-18724

  Dawson, Matthew L ^a   Varner, Mychel E ^a   Perraud, Véronique ^a   Ezell, Michael J ^a   Gerber, R Benny ^a,b,c   Finlayson Pitts, Barbara J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Atmospheric nanoparticles; Cluster enthalpy; Flow tube reactor; Kinetics modeling; Multi component nucleation

Indexed keywords

AMINE; AMMONIA; MESYLIC ACID; NANOPARTICLE; SULFURIC ACID; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84869233539     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1211878109     Document Type: Article

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