Acoustic levitation with polarising optical microscopy (AL-POM): water uptake in a nanostructured atmospheric aerosol proxy

Environ. Sci.: Atmos., 2023, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3EA00083D, Paper
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Adam Milsom, Adam M. Squires, Christopher Brasnett, William N. Sharratt, Annela M. Seddon, Christian Pfrang
We present acoustic levitation combined with polarising optical microscopy (AL-POM). Fatty acid aerosols were probed and a model fit revealed a ca. 5–6 orders of magnitude difference in water diffusion coefficient upon a phase transition between optically birefringent and non-birefringent phases.
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