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Communication: Fourier-transform infrared probing of remarkable quantities of gas trapped in cold homogeneously nucleated nanodroplets

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dc.creator Devlin, J. Paul
dc.creator Uras-Aytemiz, Nevin
dc.date 2013-07-14T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2021-12-03T11:31:41Z
dc.date.available 2021-12-03T11:31:41Z
dc.identifier 881a45a6-c79d-47b6-8536-ff6a598e6fc7
dc.identifier 10.1063/1.4813793
dc.identifier https://avesis.sdu.edu.tr/publication/details/881a45a6-c79d-47b6-8536-ff6a598e6fc7/oai
dc.identifier.uri http://acikerisim.sdu.edu.tr/xmlui/handle/123456789/93149
dc.description Studies of catalyzed all-vapor gas-hydrate formation on a sub-second timescale have been extended with a special focus on liquid-droplet compositions at the instant of hydrate crystallization. This focus has been enabled by inclusion of methanol in the all-vapor mixture. This slows droplet to gas-hydrate conversion near 200 K to a time scale suited for standard FTIR sampling. Such droplet data are sought as a guide to ongoing efforts to reduce the amount of guest catalyst required for instant formation of the gas hydrates. For the same reason, all-vapor sampling has also been extended to the generation of long-lived liquid droplets with reduced or no water content. Observations of single-solvent droplets show that surprising quantities of gas molecules are trapped during rapid droplet growth. For example, CO2 is trapped at levels near 50 mol. % in droplets of acetone, tetrahydrofuran, or trimethylene oxide formed under CO2 pressures of several Torr in a cold-chamber at 170 K. Less but significant amounts of gas are trapped at higher temperatures, or in methanol or water-methanol droplets. The droplet metastability appears to commonly lead to formation of bubbles larger than the original nanodroplets. Besides serving as a guide for the all-vapor gas-hydrate studies, the semiquantitative evidence of extensive trapping of gases is expected to have a role in future studies of atmospheric aerosols. (C) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC.
dc.language eng
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.title Communication: Fourier-transform infrared probing of remarkable quantities of gas trapped in cold homogeneously nucleated nanodroplets
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article


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