Technical note: Identification of two ice-nucleating regimes for dust-related cirrus clouds based on the relationship between number concentrations of ice-nucleating particles and ice crystals [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2022 Large amounts of dust aerosols are lifted to the upper troposphere every year and play a major role in cirrus formation by acting as efficient ice nuclei.
Y. He +9 more
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Single-bubble dynamics in nanopores: Transition between homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation
Physical Review Research, 2020 When applying a voltage bias across a thin nanopore, localized Joule heating can lead to single-bubble nucleation, offering a unique platform for studying nanoscale bubble behavior, which is still poorly understood.
Soumyadeep Paul +6 more
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Sensitivity studies of dust ice nuclei effect on cirrus clouds with the Community Atmosphere Model CAM5 [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2012 In this study the effect of dust aerosol on upper tropospheric cirrus clouds through heterogeneous ice nucleation is investigated in the Community Atmospheric Model version 5 (CAM5) with two ice nucleation parameterizations.
X. Liu +7 more
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Heterogeneous versus homogeneous crystal nucleation of hard spheres. [PDF]
Soft Matter, 2019 Hard-sphere model systems are well-suited in both experiment and simulations to investigate fundamental aspects of the crystallization of fluids. In experiments on colloidal models of hard-sphere fluids, the fluid is unavoidably in contact with the walls
J. R. Espinosa +4 more
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Homogeneous nucleation in spatially inhomogeneous systems [PDF]
, 1990 Homogeneous nucleation of a vapor in the presence of the loss of clusters by diffusion and thermophoretic drift is investigated. Analytical results are obtained for the cluster size distribution and the rate of nucleation by solving the modified ...
Okuyama, K., Seinfeld, J. H., Shi, G.
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Statistical Approach to Crystal Nucleation in Glass-Forming Liquids
Entropy, 2021 In this work, methods of description of crystal nucleation by using the statistical approach are analyzed. Findings from classical nucleation theory (CNT) for the average time of formation of the first supercritical nucleus are linked with experimental ...
Joachim Deubener, Jürn W. P. Schmelzer
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Ice nucleation from aqueous NaCl droplets with and without marine diatoms [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2011 Ice formation in the atmosphere by homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation is one of the least understood processes in cloud microphysics and climate. Here we describe our investigation of the marine environment as a potential source of atmospheric IN ...
P. A. Alpert, J. Y. Aller, D. A. Knopf
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Crystals, 2021 It is well known that the crystallization of liquids often initiates at interfaces to foreign solid surfaces. In this study, using polarized light optical microscopy, atomic force microscopy (AFM), and wide-angle X-ray scattering (WAXS), we investigate ...
Muhammad Tariq +2 more
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Impact of formulations of the homogeneous nucleation rate on ice nucleation events in cirrus [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2023 Homogeneous freezing of solution droplets is an important pathway of ice formation in the tropopause region. The nucleation rate can be parameterized as a function of water activity, based on empirical fits and some assumptions on the underlying ...
P. Spichtinger +5 more
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