Formation of ice particles through nucleation in the mesosphere [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2022 Observations of polar mesospheric clouds have revealed the presence of solid ice particles in the upper mesosphere at high latitudes; however, their formation mechanism remains uncertain.
K. K. Tanaka, I. Mann, Y. Kimura
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Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation by Graphene Nanoparticles [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2020 AbstractNanostructure, chemical composition and size distribution of aerosols have prime important effects on their efficiency in heterogeneous ice nucleation (HIN). The ice nucleation usually requires active sites in the aerosols in order to act as ice nuclei (IN).
Joghataei, Mohammad +3 more
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The QCD phase transition in the inhomogeneous Universe [PDF]
, 2000 We investigate a new mechanism for the cosmological QCD phase transition: inhomogeneous nucleation. The primordial temperature fluctuations, measured to be $\delta T/T \sim 10^{-5}$, are larger than the tiny temperature interval, in which bubbles would ...
Ignatius, J., Schwarz, Dominik J.
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On the ice nucleation spectrum [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2012 This work presents a novel formulation of the ice nucleation spectrum, i.e. the function relating the ice crystal concentration to cloud formation conditions and aerosol properties.
D. Barahona
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The Many Faces of Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation: Interplay Between Surface Morphology and Hydrophobicity [PDF]
, 2015 What makes a material a good ice nucleating agent? Despite the importance of heterogeneous ice nucleation to a variety of fields, from cloud science to microbiology, major gaps in our understanding of this ubiquitous process still prevent us from ...
Cox, Stephen J +3 more
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Heterogeneous formation of polar stratospheric clouds – Part 2: Nucleation of ice on synoptic scales [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2013 This paper provides compelling evidence for the importance of heterogeneous nucleation, likely on solid particles of meteoritic origin, and of small-scale temperature fluctuations, for the formation of ice particles in the Arctic stratosphere.
I. Engel +7 more
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On the transition between heterogeneous and homogeneous freezing [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2003 Box model simulations of an uplifting and adiabatically cooling cloud of aerosol have been performed in order to study the transition between cirrus formation dominated by homogeneous nucleation of ice to that dominated by heterogeneous nucleation. The
K. Gierens
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Manipulating Nucleation Potency of Substrates by Interfacial Segregation: An Overview
Metals, 2022 During solidification of metallic materials, heterogeneous nucleation occurs on substrates, either endogenous or exogenous. The potency of the substrates for nucleation is mainly dependent upon the atomic arrangements on the substrate surface, which are ...
Yun Wang +7 more
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Heterogeneous nucleation of protein crystals on fluorinated layered silicate. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Here, we describe an improved system for protein crystallization based on heterogeneous nucleation using fluorinated layered silicate. In addition, we also investigated the mechanism of nucleation on the silicate surface.
Keita Ino +12 more
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Heterogeneous critical nucleation on a completely-wettable substrate
, 2011 Heterogeneous nucleation of a new bulk phase on a flat substrate can be associated with the surface phase transition called wetting transition. When this bulk heterogeneous nucleation occurs on a completely-wettable flat substrate with a zero contact ...
Israelachvili J. N. +2 more
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