Nucleation and aerosol processing in atmospheric pressure electrical discharges: powders production, coatings and filtration

JP Borra - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
This review addresses the production of nano-particles and the processing of particles
injected in atmospheric pressure electrical discharges (APED). The mechanisms of …

Teramobile: a mobile femtosecond-terawatt laser and detection system

H Wille, M Rodríguez, J Kasparian… - The European …, 2002 - cambridge.org
We describe the Teramobile system, a new mobile femtosecond multi-terawatt laser and
detection system based on a state-of-the art CPA laser system embedded in a standard …

Ion enrichment on the hydrophobic carbon-based surface in aqueous salt solutions due to cation-π interactions

G Shi, J Liu, C Wang, B Song, Y Tu, J Hu, H Fang - Scientific reports, 2013 - nature.com
By incorporating cation-π interactions to classic all-atoms force fields, we show that there is
a clear enrichment of Na+ on a carbon-based π electron-rich surface in NaCl solutions using …

Structures of cationic and anionic polyelectrolytes in aqueous solutions: the sign effect

C Lin, H Wei, H Li, X Duan - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In this study, we use molecular dynamics simulation to explore the structures of anionic and
cationic polyelectrolytes in aqueous solutions. We first confirm the significantly stronger …

Computational quantum chemistry: A new approach to atmospheric nucleation

AB Nadykto, A Al Natsheh, F Yu, KV Mikkelsen… - Advances in quantum …, 2008 - Elsevier
A clear understanding of the nucleation and particle formation mechanisms is critically
important for assessing the lifecycle of atmospheric particles and predicting the climate …

Heterogeneous nucleation onto ions and neutralized ions: Insights into sign-preference

J Kangasluoma, A Samodurov, M Attoui… - The Journal of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Heterogeneous nucleation of vapor on a seed particle surface is dependent on the seed
properties such as size, chemical composition, and electric charging state, of which the …

Evaporation from water clusters containing singly charged ions

C Caleman, D van der Spoel - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2007 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular dynamics simulations were used to study the evaporation from water clusters
containing either Cl−, H2PO4−, Na+ or NH4+ ions. The simulations ranged between 10 and …

Ion–water cluster free energy computer simulation using some of most popular ion–water and water–water pair interaction models

SI Lukyanov, ZS Zidi, SV Shevkunov - Chemical physics, 2007 - Elsevier
The bicanonical Monte-Carlo method allows effective computer simulation of free energy,
entropy as well as internal energy of ion molecular clusters. The advantages of this method …

Quantum nature of the sign preference in ion-induced nucleation

AB Nadykto, A Al Natsheh, F Yu, KV Mikkelsen… - Physical review …, 2006 - APS
Observed first in Wilson's pioneering experiments in the cloud chamber, the sign preference
has re<? format?> mained a mystery for more than a century. We investigate the sign …

Temperature and structural changes of water clusters in vacuum due to evaporation

C Caleman, D van der Spoel - The Journal of chemical physics, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents a study on evaporation of pure water clusters. Molecular dynamics
simulations between 20 ns and 3 μ s of clusters ranging from 125 to 4096 molecules in …