Liquid-liquid phase separation in aerosol particles: Imaging at the nanometer scale

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 4995-5002

  Obrien, Rachel E ^a,e   Wang, Bingbing ^b   Kelly, Stephen T ^a,f   Lundt, Nils ^a,c,g   You, Yuan ^d   Bertram, Allan K ^d   Leone, Stephen R ^a,c   Laskin, Alexander ^b   Gilles, Mary K ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^f CARL ZEISS SMT AG   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HYDRATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIQUIDS; ORGANIC CARBON; POLYMER BLENDS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEPARATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES (ESEM); HOMOGENEOUS MIXTURES; HYDRATION DEHYDRATIONS; HYGROSCOPIC BEHAVIOR; LIQUID-LIQUID PHASE SEPARATION; MICROMETER SIZED PARTICLES; SCANNING TRANSMISSION X RAY MICROSCOPY; SECONDARY ORGANIC CARBON;

PHASE SEPARATION;

AMMONIUM SULFATE; LIMONENE; MACROGOL; ORGANIC CARBON; AEROSOL; CYCLOHEXENE DERIVATIVE; MACROGOL DERIVATIVE; PARTICULATE MATTER; TERPENE;

AEROSOL; ETHYLENE; HOMOGENEITY; HYDRATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SULFATE;

AEROSOL; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; HUMIDITY; LIQUID LIQUID PHASE SEPARATION; MICROSCOPY; PHASE SEPARATION; PHASE TRANSITION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AEROSOLS; AMMONIUM SULFATE; CYCLOHEXENES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHASE TRANSITION; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; TERPENES;

EID: 84928395036     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b00062     Document Type: Article

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