Pre-nucleation clusters as solute precursors in crystallisation

D Gebauer, M Kellermeier, JD Gale… - Chemical Society …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Crystallisation is at the heart of various scientific disciplines, but still the understanding of the
molecular mechanisms underlying phase separation and the formation of the first solid …

[HTML][HTML] Mass calibration options for accurate electrospray ionization mass spectrometry

J Romson, Å Emmer - International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 2021 - Elsevier
Calibration is vital for accurate m/z measurements. This review informs on calibration and
possible calibrants for ESI-MS, highlighting analytical considerations important for high …

Amorphous aggregates with a very wide size distribution play a central role in crystal nucleation

Z Liao, A Das, CG Robb, R Beveridge, K Wynne - Chemical Science, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
There is mounting evidence that crystal nucleation from supersaturated solution involves the
formation and reorganization of prenucleation clusters, contradicting classical nucleation …

Deprotonated sulfamic acid and its homodimers: Does sulfamic acid adopt zwitterion during cluster growth?

Z Hu, Q Shao, Z Li, Z Sun, XB Wang… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We present a joint experimental and computational study on the geometric and electronic
structures of deprotonated sulfamic acid (SA) clusters [(SA) n–H]−(n= 1, 2) employing …

Clustering of sulfamic acid: ESI MS and theoretical study

M Pszona, K Haupa, A Bil, K Mierzwicki… - Journal of Mass …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Sulfamic acid has wide application in industry and has been suggested to act as an effective
nucleation agent for the formation of aerosols and cloud particles. From the point of view of …

A terahertz study of taurine: Dispersion correction and mode couplings

Z Dai, X Xu, Y Gu, X Li, F Wang, Y Lian, K Fan… - The Journal of …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
The low-frequency characteristics of polycrystalline taurine were studied experimentally by
terahertz (THz) absorption spectroscopy and theoretically by ab initio density-functional …

A comparative study of the electrospray ionization response of β‐O‐4′ lignin model compounds

SO Asare, BC Lynn - Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry has recently become the technique of choice for
rapid characterization of lignin degradation products. However, the fundamental question of …

General role of amorphous aggregates in crystal nucleation

Z Liao, A Das, CG Robb, R Beveridge, K Wynne - 2023 - chemrxiv.org
There is mounting evidence that crystal nucleation from supersaturated solution involves the
formation and reor-ganisation of pre-nucleation clusters contradicting classical nucleation …

The acid-base character of interactions between xenon and selected carboxylic and sulfonic acids

D Gąszowski, M Ilczyszyn - Chemical Physics, 2017 - Elsevier
Interactions of Xe atoms with RCO 2 H and RSO 3 H (R= CH 3 and CF 3) acids in different
solvents are examined by analysis of 129 Xe chemical shifts extrapolated to zero solvent …