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Xavier C, de jonge RW, Jokinen T, Beck L, Sipilä M, Olenius T, Roldin P. Role of Iodine-Assisted Aerosol Particle Formation in Antarctica. Environ Sci Technol 2024; 58:7314-7324. [PMID: 38626432 PMCID: PMC11064213 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c09103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2023] [Revised: 04/03/2024] [Accepted: 04/04/2024] [Indexed: 04/18/2024]
Abstract
New particle formation via the ion-mediated sulfuric acid and ammonia molecular clustering mechanism remains the most widely observed and experimentally verified pathway. Recent laboratory and molecular level observations indicate iodine-driven nucleation as a potentially important source of new particles, especially in coastal areas. In this study, we assess the role of iodine species in particle formation using the best available molecular thermochemistry data and coupled to a detailed 1-d column model which is run along air mass trajectories over the Southern Ocean and the coast of Antarctica. In the air masses traversing the open ocean, ion-mediated SA-NH3 clustering appears insufficient to explain the observed particle size distribution, wherein the simulated Aitken mode is lacking. Including the iodine-assisted particle formation improves the modeled Aitken mode representation with an increase in the number of freshly formed particles. This implies that more particles survive and grow to Aitken mode sizes via condensation of gaseous precursors and heterogeneous reactions. Under certain meteorological conditions, iodine-assisted particle formation can increase cloud condensation nuclei concentrations by 20%-100%.
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Affiliation(s)
- Carlton Xavier
- Department
of Physics, Lund University, Professorsgatan 1, Lund SE-22363, Sweden
- Swedish
Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), Norrköping SE-60176, Sweden
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- Institute
for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR)/Physics, Faculty
of Science, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64, Helsinki 00014, Finland
- Climate
& Atmosphere Research Centre (CARE-C), The Cyprus Institute, P.O. Box 27456, Nicosia 1645, Cyprus
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- Institute
for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt
am Main 60438, Germany
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- Institute
for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR)/Physics, Faculty
of Science, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64, Helsinki 00014, Finland
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- Swedish
Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), Norrköping SE-60176, Sweden
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- Department
of Physics, Lund University, Professorsgatan 1, Lund SE-22363, Sweden
- Swedish
Environmental Research Institute IVL, Malmö SE-21119, Sweden
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Miming Z, Sun H, Zhang J, Wu Y, Gao Z, Zhan L, Yan J, Li J. Relationships among the climate-relevant gases during the Southern Ocean bloom season. Sci Total Environ 2024; 914:169887. [PMID: 38185175 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.169887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2023] [Revised: 12/29/2023] [Accepted: 01/01/2024] [Indexed: 01/09/2024]
Abstract
The ocean plays an essential role in regulating the sources and sinks of climate-relevant gases, like CO2, N2O and dimethyl sulfide (DMS), thus influencing global climate change. Although the Southern Ocean is known to be a strong carbon sink, a significant DMS source and possibly a large source of N2O, our understanding of the interaction among these climate-relevant gases and their potential impacts on climate change is still insufficient in the Southern Ocean. Herein, we analyzed parameters, including surface water pCO2, dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), alkalinity (TA), DMS and N2O in the water column, collected during the austral summer of 2015-2016 in the 32nd Chinese Antarctic Research Expedition (CHINARE) at the tip of Antarctic Peninsula. A positive correlation between DMS and pCO2 (indicated by deficit of DIC, ∆DIC, refer to values in 100 m) was observed in waters above 75 m, whereas no correlation between N2O saturation anomaly (SA) and DMS, ∆DIC was found. In the area with stable stratification with phytoplankton bloom, significant DMS source and strong CO2 uptake with weak N2O emission were observed. Conversely, strong mixing or upwelling area was shown to be a strong marine CO2 source and significant N2O release with weak DMS source.
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- Zhang Miming
- Key Laboratory of Global Change and Marine-Atmospheric Chemistry of Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), Third Institute of Oceanography, MNR, Siming District, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, China; Guangdong MS Institute of Scientific Instrument Innovation, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Global Change and Marine-Atmospheric Chemistry of Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), Third Institute of Oceanography, MNR, Siming District, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, China
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- Key Laboratory of Global Change and Marine-Atmospheric Chemistry of Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), Third Institute of Oceanography, MNR, Siming District, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, China
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- School of Chemistry and Australian Centre for NanoMedicine, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- Key Laboratory of Global Change and Marine-Atmospheric Chemistry of Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), Third Institute of Oceanography, MNR, Siming District, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, China
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- Key Laboratory of Global Change and Marine-Atmospheric Chemistry of Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), Third Institute of Oceanography, MNR, Siming District, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, China
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- Key Laboratory of Global Change and Marine-Atmospheric Chemistry of Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), Third Institute of Oceanography, MNR, Siming District, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, China
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- Fujian Key Laboratory on Conservation and Sustainable Utilization of Marine Biodiversity, Fuzhou Institute of Oceanography, Minjiang University, Fuzhou, China.
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Chamba G, Rissanen M, Barthelmeß T, Saiz-Lopez A, Rose C, Iyer S, Saint-Macary A, Rocco M, Safi K, Deppeler S, Barr N, Harvey M, Engel A, Dunne E, Law CS, Sellegri K. Evidence of nitrate-based nighttime atmospheric nucleation driven by marine microorganisms in the South Pacific. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2308696120. [PMID: 37991941 PMCID: PMC10691324 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2308696120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2023] [Accepted: 10/04/2023] [Indexed: 11/24/2023] Open
Abstract
Our understanding of ocean-cloud interactions and their effect on climate lacks insight into a key pathway: do biogenic marine emissions form new particles in the open ocean atmosphere? Using measurements collected in ship-borne air-sea interface tanks deployed in the Southwestern Pacific Ocean, we identified new particle formation (NPF) during nighttime that was related to plankton community composition. We show that nitrate ions are the only species for which abundance could support NPF rates in our semicontrolled experiments. Nitrate ions also prevailed in the natural pristine marine atmosphere and were elevated under higher sub-10 nm particle concentrations. We hypothesize that these nucleation events were fueled by complex, short-term biogeochemical cycling involving the microbial loop. These findings suggest a new perspective with a previously unidentified role of nitrate of marine biogeochemical origin in aerosol nucleation.
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- Guillaume Chamba
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, Clermont-FerrandF-63000, France
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- Aerosol Physics Laboratory, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere33720, Finland
- Chemistry Department, Molecular Research Unit, University of Helsinki, Helsinki00014, Finland
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- Research Center for Marine Geosciences, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel24105, Germany
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- Department of Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate, Institute of Physical Chemistry Blas Cabrera, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid28006, Spain
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, Clermont-FerrandF-63000, France
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- Aerosol Physics Laboratory, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere33720, Finland
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- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington6021, New Zealand
- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin9016, New Zealand
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, Clermont-FerrandF-63000, France
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- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Hamilton3216, New Zealand
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- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington6021, New Zealand
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- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington6021, New Zealand
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- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington6021, New Zealand
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- Research Center for Marine Geosciences, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel24105, Germany
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Environment, AspendaleVIC3195, Australia
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- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington6021, New Zealand
- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin9016, New Zealand
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, Clermont-FerrandF-63000, France
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Toropainen A, Kangasluoma J, Vehkamäki H, Kubečka J. Heterogeneous Ion-Induced Nucleation of Water and Butanol Vapors Studied via Computational Quantum Chemistry beyond Prenucleation and Critical Cluster Sizes. J Phys Chem A 2023; 127:3976-3990. [PMID: 37126596 PMCID: PMC10184119 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c00066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
Abstract
Water and butanol are used as working fluids in condensation particle counters, and condensation of a single vapor onto an ion can be used as a simple model system for the study of ion-induced nucleation in the atmosphere. Motivated by this, we examine heterogeneous nucleation of water (H2O) and n-butanol (BuOH) vapors onto three positively (Li+, Na+, K+) and three negatively charged (F-, Cl-, Br-) ions using classical nucleation theory and computational quantum chemistry methods. We study phenomena that cannot be captured by Kelvin-Thomson equation for small nucleation ion cores. Our quantum chemistry calculations reveal the molecular mechanism behind ion-induced nucleation for each studied system. Typically, ions become solvated from all sides after several vapor molecules condense onto the ion. However, we show that the clusters of water and large negatively charged ions (Cl- and Br-) thermodynamically prefer the ion being migrated to the cluster surface. Although our methods generally do not show clear sign-preference for ion-water nucleation, we identified positive sign-preference for ion-butanol nucleation caused by the possibility to form stabilizing hydrogen bonds between butanol molecules condensed onto a positively charged ion. These bonds cannot form when butanol condenses onto a negatively charged ion. Therefore, we show that ion charge, its sign, as well as vapor properties have effects on the prenucleation and critical cluster/droplet sizes and also on the molecular mechanism of ion-induced nucleation.
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- Antti Toropainen
- University of Helsinki, Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, P.O. Box 64, Helsinki 00140, Finland
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- University of Helsinki, Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, P.O. Box 64, Helsinki 00140, Finland
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- University of Helsinki, Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, P.O. Box 64, Helsinki 00140, Finland
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- Aarhus University, Department of Chemistry, Langelandsgade 140, Aarhus 8000, Denmark
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Finkenzeller H, Iyer S, He XC, Simon M, Koenig TK, Lee CF, Valiev R, Hofbauer V, Amorim A, Baalbaki R, Baccarini A, Beck L, Bell DM, Caudillo L, Chen D, Chiu R, Chu B, Dada L, Duplissy J, Heinritzi M, Kemppainen D, Kim C, Krechmer J, Kürten A, Kvashnin A, Lamkaddam H, Lee CP, Lehtipalo K, Li Z, Makhmutov V, Manninen HE, Marie G, Marten R, Mauldin RL, Mentler B, Müller T, Petäjä T, Philippov M, Ranjithkumar A, Rörup B, Shen J, Stolzenburg D, Tauber C, Tham YJ, Tomé A, Vazquez-Pufleau M, Wagner AC, Wang DS, Wang M, Wang Y, Weber SK, Nie W, Wu Y, Xiao M, Ye Q, Zauner-Wieczorek M, Hansel A, Baltensperger U, Brioude J, Curtius J, Donahue NM, Haddad IE, Flagan RC, Kulmala M, Kirkby J, Sipilä M, Worsnop DR, Kurten T, Rissanen M, Volkamer R. The gas-phase formation mechanism of iodic acid as an atmospheric aerosol source. Nat Chem 2023; 15:129-35. [PMID: 36376388 DOI: 10.1038/s41557-022-01067-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2022] [Accepted: 09/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
Iodine is a reactive trace element in atmospheric chemistry that destroys ozone and nucleates particles. Iodine emissions have tripled since 1950 and are projected to keep increasing with rising O3 surface concentrations. Although iodic acid (HIO3) is widespread and forms particles more efficiently than sulfuric acid, its gas-phase formation mechanism remains unresolved. Here, in CLOUD atmospheric simulation chamber experiments that generate iodine radicals at atmospherically relevant rates, we show that iodooxy hypoiodite, IOIO, is efficiently converted into HIO3 via reactions (R1) IOIO + O3 → IOIO4 and (R2) IOIO4 + H2O → HIO3 + HOI + (1)O2. The laboratory-derived reaction rate coefficients are corroborated by theory and shown to explain field observations of daytime HIO3 in the remote lower free troposphere. The mechanism provides a missing link between iodine sources and particle formation. Because particulate iodate is readily reduced, recycling iodine back into the gas phase, our results suggest a catalytic role of iodine in aerosol formation.
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Shen J, Scholz W, He XC, Zhou P, Marie G, Wang M, Marten R, Surdu M, Rörup B, Baalbaki R, Amorim A, Ataei F, Bell DM, Bertozzi B, Brasseur Z, Caudillo L, Chen D, Chu B, Dada L, Duplissy J, Finkenzeller H, Granzin M, Guida R, Heinritzi M, Hofbauer V, Iyer S, Kemppainen D, Kong W, Krechmer JE, Kürten A, Lamkaddam H, Lee CP, Lopez B, Mahfouz NGA, Manninen HE, Massabò D, Mauldin RL, Mentler B, Müller T, Pfeifer J, Philippov M, Piedehierro AA, Roldin P, Schobesberger S, Simon M, Stolzenburg D, Tham YJ, Tomé A, Umo NS, Wang D, Wang Y, Weber SK, Welti A, Wollesen de Jonge R, Wu Y, Zauner-Wieczorek M, Zust F, Baltensperger U, Curtius J, Flagan RC, Hansel A, Möhler O, Petäjä T, Volkamer R, Kulmala M, Lehtipalo K, Rissanen M, Kirkby J, El-Haddad I, Bianchi F, Sipilä M, Donahue NM, Worsnop DR. High Gas-Phase Methanesulfonic Acid Production in the OH-Initiated Oxidation of Dimethyl Sulfide at Low Temperatures. Environ Sci Technol 2022; 56:13931-13944. [PMID: 36137236 PMCID: PMC9535848 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c05154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2022] [Revised: 09/01/2022] [Accepted: 09/02/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
Abstract
Dimethyl sulfide (DMS) influences climate via cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) formation resulting from its oxidation products (mainly methanesulfonic acid, MSA, and sulfuric acid, H2SO4). Despite their importance, accurate prediction of MSA and H2SO4 from DMS oxidation remains challenging. With comprehensive experiments carried out in the Cosmics Leaving Outdoor Droplets (CLOUD) chamber at CERN, we show that decreasing the temperature from +25 to -10 °C enhances the gas-phase MSA production by an order of magnitude from OH-initiated DMS oxidation, while H2SO4 production is modestly affected. This leads to a gas-phase H2SO4-to-MSA ratio (H2SO4/MSA) smaller than one at low temperatures, consistent with field observations in polar regions. With an updated DMS oxidation mechanism, we find that methanesulfinic acid, CH3S(O)OH, MSIA, forms large amounts of MSA. Overall, our results reveal that MSA yields are a factor of 2-10 higher than those predicted by the widely used Master Chemical Mechanism (MCMv3.3.1), and the NOx effect is less significant than that of temperature. Our updated mechanism explains the high MSA production rates observed in field observations, especially at low temperatures, thus, substantiating the greater importance of MSA in the natural sulfur cycle and natural CCN formation. Our mechanism will improve the interpretation of present-day and historical gas-phase H2SO4/MSA measurements.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jiali Shen
- Institute
for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute
of Ion Physics and Applied Physics, University
of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute
for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute
for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute
for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Center
for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Laboratory
of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer
Institute, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer
Institute, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Institute
for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute
for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- CENTRA
and Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 1749-016 Campo
Grande, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Leibniz
Institute for Tropospheric Research, Permoserstrasse 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
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- Laboratory
of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer
Institute, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology, 76344 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Institute
for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute
for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Center
for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Institute
for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Laboratory
of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer
Institute, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Institute
for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
- Helsinki
Institute of Physics, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Department
of Chemistry and Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental
Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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- Institute
for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CH-1211 Geneva
23, Switzerland
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- Institute
for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Center
for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Aerosol Physics
Laboratory, Physics Unit, Faculty of Engineering
and Natural Sciences, Tampere University, 33014 Tampere, Finland
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- Institute
for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Institute
for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Laboratory
of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer
Institute, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer
Institute, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Center
for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton
University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, United States
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- CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CH-1211 Geneva
23, Switzerland
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- Department
of Physics, University of Genoa & INFN, 16146 Genoa, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
- Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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- Institute
of Ion Physics and Applied Physics, University
of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute
for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CH-1211 Geneva
23, Switzerland
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- P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Finnish Meteorological Institute, Erik Palmenin aukio 1, 00560 Helsinki, Finland
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- Division of Nuclear Physics, Lund University, 22100 Lund, Sweden
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- Institute
for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute
for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute
for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
- School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-sen
University, 519082 Zhuhai, China
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- Institute Infante Dom Luíz, University
of Beira Interior, 6200-001 Covilhã, Portugal
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- Institute
of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology, 76344 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Laboratory
of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer
Institute, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Institute
for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute
for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CH-1211 Geneva
23, Switzerland
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- Finnish Meteorological Institute, Erik Palmenin aukio 1, 00560 Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute
for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute
for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute
of Ion Physics and Applied Physics, University
of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Laboratory
of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer
Institute, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Institute
for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Institute
of Ion Physics and Applied Physics, University
of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute
of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology, 76344 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Institute
for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Department
of Chemistry and Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental
Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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- Institute
for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
- Helsinki
Institute of Physics, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
- Joint
International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System
Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, 210023 Nanjing, China
- Aerosol and Haze Laboratory, Beijing Advanced Innovation
Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, 100029 Beijing, China
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- Institute
for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
- Finnish Meteorological Institute, Erik Palmenin aukio 1, 00560 Helsinki, Finland
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- Aerosol Physics
Laboratory, Physics Unit, Faculty of Engineering
and Natural Sciences, Tampere University, 33014 Tampere, Finland
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- Institute
for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CH-1211 Geneva
23, Switzerland
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- Laboratory
of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer
Institute, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Institute
for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute
for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Center
for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
- Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Institute
for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
- Aerodyne Research, Inc., Billerica, Massachusetts 01821, United States
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Cai R, Yin R, Yan C, Yang D, Deng C, Dada L, Kangasluoma J, Kontkanen J, Halonen R, Ma Y, Zhang X, Paasonen P, Petäjä T, Kerminen VM, Liu Y, Bianchi F, Zheng J, Wang L, Hao J, Smith JN, Donahue NM, Kulmala M, Worsnop DR, Jiang J. The missing base molecules in atmospheric acid-base nucleation. Natl Sci Rev 2022; 9:nwac137. [PMID: 36196118 PMCID: PMC9522409 DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwac137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2022] [Revised: 07/06/2022] [Accepted: 07/08/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
Abstract
Transformation of low-volatility gaseous precursors to new particles affects aerosol number concentration, cloud formation and hence the climate. The clustering of acid and base molecules is a major mechanism driving fast nucleation and initial growth of new particles in the atmosphere. However, the acid–base cluster composition, measured using state-of-the-art mass spectrometers, cannot explain the measured high formation rate of new particles. Here we present strong evidence for the existence of base molecules such as amines in the smallest atmospheric sulfuric acid clusters prior to their detection by mass spectrometers. We demonstrate that forming (H2SO4)1(amine)1 is the rate-limiting step in atmospheric H2SO4-amine nucleation and the uptake of (H2SO4)1(amine)1 is a major pathway for the initial growth of H2SO4 clusters. The proposed mechanism is very consistent with measured new particle formation in urban Beijing, in which dimethylamine is the key base for H2SO4 nucleation while other bases such as ammonia may contribute to the growth of larger clusters. Our findings further underline the fact that strong amines, even at low concentrations and when undetected in the smallest clusters, can be crucial to particle formation in the planetary boundary layer.
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- Runlong Cai
- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University , Beijing , 100084 , China
- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research / Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki , Helsinki , 00014 , Finland
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University , Beijing , 100084 , China
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research / Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki , Helsinki , 00014 , Finland
- Aerosol and Haze Laboratory, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology , Beijing , 100029 , China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology , Nanjing , 210044 , China
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University , Beijing , 100084 , China
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research / Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki , Helsinki , 00014 , Finland
- Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute , Villigen , 5232 , Switzerland
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research / Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki , Helsinki , 00014 , Finland
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research / Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki , Helsinki , 00014 , Finland
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- Center for Joint Quantum Studies and Department of Physics, School of Science, Tianjin University , 135 Yaguan Road , Tianjin , 300350 , China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology , Nanjing , 210044 , China
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- Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, Ministry of Education of China, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology , Beijing , 100081 , China
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research / Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki , Helsinki , 00014 , Finland
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research / Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki , Helsinki , 00014 , Finland
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research / Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki , Helsinki , 00014 , Finland
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- Aerosol and Haze Laboratory, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology , Beijing , 100029 , China
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research / Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki , Helsinki , 00014 , Finland
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology , Nanjing , 210044 , China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Particle Pollution and Prevention (LAP3), Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University , Shanghai , 200433 , China
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University , Beijing , 100084 , China
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- Chemistry Department, University of California , Irvine , CA 92697 , USA
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- Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , PA 15213 , USA
- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh , PA 15213 , USA
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research / Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki , Helsinki , 00014 , Finland
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research / Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki , Helsinki , 00014 , Finland
- Aerodyne Research Inc., Billerica , MA , MA 01821 , USA
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University , Beijing , 100084 , China
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Liang Y, Rong H, Liu L, Zhang S, Zhang X, Xu W. Gas-phase catalytic hydration of I 2O 5 in the polluted coastal regions: Reaction mechanisms and atmospheric implications. J Environ Sci (China) 2022; 114:412-421. [PMID: 35459504 DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2021.09.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2021] [Revised: 09/21/2021] [Accepted: 09/24/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Marine aerosols play an important role in the global aerosol system. In polluted coastal regions, ultra-fine particles have been recognized to be related to iodine-containing species and is more serious due to the impact of atmospheric pollutants. Many previous studies have identified iodine pentoxide (I2O5, IP) to be the key species in new particles formation (NPF) in marine regions, but the role of IP in the polluted coastal atmosphere is far to be fully understood. Considering the high humidity and concentrations of pollutants in the polluted coastal regions, the gas-phase hydration of IP catalyzed by sulfuric acid (SA), nitric acid (NA), dimethylamine (DMA), and ammonia (A) have been investigated at DLPNO-CCSD(T)//ωB97X-D/aug-cc-pVTZ + aug-cc-pVTZ-PP with ECP28MDF (for iodine) level of theory. The results show that the hydration of IP involves a significant energy barrier of 22.33 kcal/mol, while the pollutants SA, NA, DMA, and A all could catalyze the hydration of IP. Especially, with SA and DMA as catalysts, the hydration reactions of IP present extremely low barriers and high rate constants. It is suggested that IP is unstable under the catalysis of SA and DMA to generate iodic acid, which is the key component in NPF in marine regions. Thus, the catalytic hydration of IP is very likely to trigger the formation of iodine-containing particles. Our research provides a clear picture of the catalytic hydration of IP as well as theoretical guidance for NPF in the polluted coastal atmosphere.
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- Yan Liang
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China.
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Jang E, Park KT, Yoon YJ, Kim K, Gim Y, Chung HY, Lee K, Choi J, Park J, Park SJ, Koo JH, Fernandez RP, Saiz-Lopez A. First-year sea ice leads to an increase in dimethyl sulfide-induced particle formation in the Antarctic Peninsula. Sci Total Environ 2022; 803:150002. [PMID: 34482143 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2021] [Revised: 08/17/2021] [Accepted: 08/25/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Dimethyl sulfide (DMS) produced by marine algae represents the largest natural emission of sulfur to the atmosphere. The oxidation of DMS is a key process affecting new particle formation that contributes to the radiative forcing of the Earth. In this study, atmospheric DMS and its major oxidation products (methanesulfonic acid, MSA; non-sea-salt sulfate, nss-SO42-) and particle size distributions were measured at King Sejong station located in the Antarctic Peninsula during the austral spring-summer period in 2018-2020. The observatory was surrounded by open ocean and first-year and multi-year sea ice. Importantly, oceanic emissions and atmospheric oxidation of DMS showed distinct differences depending on source regions. A high mixing ratio of atmospheric DMS was observed when air masses were influenced by the open ocean and first-year sea ice due to the abundance of DMS producers such as pelagic phaeocystis and ice algae. However, the concentrations of MSA and nss-SO42- were distinctively increased for air masses originating from first-year sea ice as compared to those originating from the open ocean and multi-year sea ice, suggesting additional influences from the source regions of atmospheric oxidants. Heterogeneous chemical processes that actively occur over first-year sea ice tend to accelerate the release of bromine monoxide (BrO), which is the most efficient DMS oxidant in Antarctica. Model-estimates for surface BrO confirmed that high BrO mixing ratios were closely associated with first-year sea ice, thus enhancing DMS oxidation. Consequently, the concentration of newly formed particles originated from first-year sea ice, which was a strong source area for both DMS and BrO was greater than from open ocean (high DMS but low BrO). These results indicate that first-year sea ice plays an important yet overlooked role in DMS-induced new particle formation in polar environments, where warming-induced sea ice changes are pronounced.
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- Eunho Jang
- Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea; University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea
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- Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea; University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea.
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- Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea; University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea
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- Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea
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- Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea; University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, South Korea
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- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, South Korea
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- Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea
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- Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea
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- Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Institute for Interdisciplinary Science (ICB), National Research Council (CONICET), FCEN-UNCuyo, Mendoza, Argentina
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- Department of Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate, Institute of Physical Chemistry Rocasolano, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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Yang S, Licina D, Weschler CJ, Wang N, Zannoni N, Li M, Vanhanen J, Langer S, Wargocki P, Williams J, Bekö G. Ozone Initiates Human-Derived Emission of Nanocluster Aerosols. Environ Sci Technol 2021; 55:14536-14545. [PMID: 34672572 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c03379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Nanocluster aerosols (NCAs, particles <3 nm) are important players in driving climate feedbacks and processes that impact human health. This study reports, for the first time, NCA formation when gas-phase ozone reacts with human surfaces. In an occupied climate-controlled chamber, we detected NCA only when ozone was present. NCA emissions were dependent on clothing coverage, occupant age, air temperature, and humidity. Ozone-initiated chemistry with human skin lipids (particularly their primary surface reaction products) is the key mechanism driving NCA emissions, as evidenced by positive correlations with squalene in human skin wipe samples and known gaseous products from ozonolysis of skin lipids. Oxidation by OH radicals, autoxidation reactions, and human-emitted NH3 may also play a role in NCA formation. Such chemical processes are anticipated to generate aerosols of the smallest size (1.18-1.55 nm), whereas larger clusters result from subsequent growth of the smaller aerosols. This study shows that whenever we encounter ozone indoors, where we spend most of our lives, NCAs will be produced in the air around us.
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- Shen Yang
- Human-Oriented Built Environment Lab, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne 1015, Switzerland
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- Human-Oriented Built Environment Lab, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne 1015, Switzerland
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- International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy, Department of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby 2800, Denmark
- Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, United States
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Hahn-Meitner Weg 1, Mainz 55128, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Hahn-Meitner Weg 1, Mainz 55128, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Hahn-Meitner Weg 1, Mainz 55128, Germany
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- Airmodus Limited, Erik Palménin Aukio 1, Helsinki FI-00560, Finland
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- IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, Göteborg SE-400 14, Sweden
- Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Division of Building Services Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg SE-412 96, Sweden
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- International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy, Department of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby 2800, Denmark
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- Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Hahn-Meitner Weg 1, Mainz 55128, Germany
- Energy, Environment and Water Research Center, The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia 2121, Cyprus
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- International Centre for Indoor Environment and Energy, Department of Civil Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby 2800, Denmark
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Yin R, Yan C, Cai R, Li X, Shen J, Lu Y, Schobesberger S, Fu Y, Deng C, Wang L, Liu Y, Zheng J, Xie H, Bianchi F, Worsnop DR, Kulmala M, Jiang J. Acid-Base Clusters during Atmospheric New Particle Formation in Urban Beijing. Environ Sci Technol 2021; 55:10994-11005. [PMID: 34338506 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c02701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Molecular clustering is the initial step of atmospheric new particle formation (NPF) that generates numerous secondary particles. Using two online mass spectrometers with and without a chemical ionization inlet, we characterized the neutral clusters and the naturally charged ion clusters during NPF periods in urban Beijing. In ion clusters, we observed pure sulfuric acid (SA) clusters, SA-amine clusters, SA-ammonia (NH3) clusters, and SA-amine-NH3 clusters. However, only SA clusters and SA-amine clusters were observed in the neutral form. Meanwhile, oxygenated organic molecule (OOM) clusters charged by a nitrate ion and a bisulfate ion were observed in ion clusters. Acid-base clusters correlate well with the occurrence of sub-3 nm particles, whereas OOM clusters do not. Moreover, with the increasing cluster size, amine fractions in ion acid-base clusters decrease, while NH3 fractions increase. This variation results from the reduced stability differences between SA-amine clusters and SA-NH3 clusters, which is supported by both quantum chemistry calculations and chamber experiments. The lower average number of dimethylamine (DMA) molecules in atmospheric ion clusters than the saturated value from controlled SA-DMA nucleation experiments suggests that there is insufficient DMA in urban Beijing to fully stabilize large SA clusters, and therefore, other basic molecules such as NH3 play an important role.
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- Rujing Yin
- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Aerosol and Haze Laboratory, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100084, China
- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research / Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research / Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), School of Environmental Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Particle Pollution and Prevention (LAP3), Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Particle Pollution and Prevention (LAP3), Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Aerosol and Haze Laboratory, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100084, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Environment Monitoring and Pollution Control, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Ecology and Environmental Engineering (Ministry of Education), School of Environmental Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
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- Aerosol and Haze Laboratory, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100084, China
- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research / Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research / Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
- Aerodyne Research Inc, Billerica, Massachusetts 01821, United States
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- Aerosol and Haze Laboratory, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100084, China
- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research / Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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Lee H, Chung H, Ahn KH. Application of an aerosol electrical mobility spectrum analyzer: Charged-particle polarity ratio measurement in the Antarctic and Arctic regions. J Environ Sci (China) 2021; 105:81-89. [PMID: 34130842 DOI: 10.1016/j.jes.2020.12.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2020] [Revised: 12/23/2020] [Accepted: 12/23/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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An aerosol electrical mobility spectrum analyzer (AEMSA), developed at Hanyang University, was employed to investigate the particle charge characteristics in the Antarctic and Arctic regions. The particle charge characteristics in these areas were compared with the charging state in Ansan, South Korea, located in the midlatitude, where artificial factors, such as human activity, urbanization, and traffic, might result in a higher total concentration. Furthermore, in Ansan, South Korea, the charged-particle polarity ratio was very stable and was close to 1. However, notably different particle charge characteristics were obtained in the Antarctic and Arctic regions. The imbalance between the numbers of positively and negatively charged particles was evident, resulting in more positive charges on the atmospheric particles. On average, the positively charged particle concentrations in the Antarctic and Arctic areas were 1.4 and 2.8 times higher, respectively, compared with the negatively charged particles. The developed AEMSA system and the findings of this study provide useful information on the characteristics of atmospheric aerosols in the Antarctic and Arctic regions and can be further utilized to study particle formation mechanisms.
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- Handol Lee
- Department of Environmental Engineering, Inha University, 100 Inha-ro, Michuhol-gu, Incheon 22212, South Korea
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- Aerosol Research and Technology Plus (ART+), 195-62, Daepyeong-ro, Daewol-myeon, Icheon, Gyunggi-do 17343, South Korea
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hanyang University, ERICA, 55 Hanyangdaehak-ro, Sangnok-gu, Ansan 15588, South Korea.
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Rosati B, Christiansen S, Wollesen de Jonge R, Roldin P, Jensen MM, Wang K, Moosakutty SP, Thomsen D, Salomonsen C, Hyttinen N, Elm J, Feilberg A, Glasius M, Bilde M. New Particle Formation and Growth from Dimethyl Sulfide Oxidation by Hydroxyl Radicals. ACS Earth Space Chem 2021; 5:801-811. [PMID: 33889792 PMCID: PMC8054244 DOI: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.0c00333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2020] [Revised: 03/08/2021] [Accepted: 03/10/2021] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Dimethyl sulfide (DMS) is produced by plankton in oceans and constitutes the largest natural emission of sulfur to the atmosphere. In this work, we examine new particle formation from the primary pathway of oxidation of gas-phase DMS by OH radicals. We particularly focus on particle growth and mass yield as studied experimentally under dry conditions using the atmospheric simulation chamber AURA. Experimentally, we show that aerosol mass yields from oxidation of 50-200 ppb of DMS are low (2-7%) and that particle growth rates (8.2-24.4 nm/h) are comparable with ambient observations. An HR-ToF-AMS was calibrated using methanesulfonic acid (MSA) to account for fragments distributed across both the organic and sulfate fragmentation table. AMS-derived chemical compositions revealed that MSA was always more dominant than sulfate in the secondary aerosols formed. Modeling using the Aerosol Dynamics, gas- and particle-phase chemistry kinetic multilayer model for laboratory CHAMber studies (ADCHAM) indicates that the Master Chemical Mechanism gas-phase chemistry alone underestimates experimentally observed particle formation and that DMS multiphase and autoxidation chemistry is needed to explain observations. Based on quantum chemical calculations, we conclude that particle formation from DMS oxidation in the ambient atmosphere will most likely be driven by mixed sulfuric acid/MSA clusters clustering with both amines and ammonia.
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- Bernadette Rosati
- Department
of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, Aarhus C DK-8000, Denmark
- Faculty
of Physics, University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, Vienna AT-1090, Austria
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- Department
of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, Aarhus C DK-8000, Denmark
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- Division
of Nuclear Physics, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, Lund SE-221
00, Sweden
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- Department
of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, Aarhus C DK-8000, Denmark
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- Department
of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, Aarhus C DK-8000, Denmark
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- Department
of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, Aarhus C DK-8000, Denmark
- Clean Combustion
Research Center, King Abdullah University
of Science and Technology, Thuwal KSA-23955, Saudi Arabia
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- Department
of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, Aarhus C DK-8000, Denmark
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- Department
of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, Aarhus C DK-8000, Denmark
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- Nano
and Molecular Systems Research Unit, University
of Oulu, P.O. Box 3000, Oulu FI-90014, Finland
- Department
of Applied Physics, University of Eastern
Finland, P.O. Box 1627, Kuopio FI-70211, Finland
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- Department
of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, Aarhus C DK-8000, Denmark
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- Department
of Biological and Chemical Engineering, Aarhus University, Finlandsgade
12, Aarhus N DK-8200, Denmark
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- Department
of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, Aarhus C DK-8000, Denmark
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- Department
of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Langelandsgade 140, Aarhus C DK-8000, Denmark
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He XC, Tham YJ, Dada L, Wang M, Finkenzeller H, Stolzenburg D, Iyer S, Simon M, Kürten A, Shen J, Rörup B, Rissanen M, Schobesberger S, Baalbaki R, Wang DS, Koenig TK, Jokinen T, Sarnela N, Beck LJ, Almeida J, Amanatidis S, Amorim A, Ataei F, Baccarini A, Bertozzi B, Bianchi F, Brilke S, Caudillo L, Chen D, Chiu R, Chu B, Dias A, Ding A, Dommen J, Duplissy J, El Haddad I, Gonzalez Carracedo L, Granzin M, Hansel A, Heinritzi M, Hofbauer V, Junninen H, Kangasluoma J, Kemppainen D, Kim C, Kong W, Krechmer JE, Kvashin A, Laitinen T, Lamkaddam H, Lee CP, Lehtipalo K, Leiminger M, Li Z, Makhmutov V, Manninen HE, Marie G, Marten R, Mathot S, Mauldin RL, Mentler B, Möhler O, Müller T, Nie W, Onnela A, Petäjä T, Pfeifer J, Philippov M, Ranjithkumar A, Saiz-Lopez A, Salma I, Scholz W, Schuchmann S, Schulze B, Steiner G, Stozhkov Y, Tauber C, Tomé A, Thakur RC, Väisänen O, Vazquez-Pufleau M, Wagner AC, Wang Y, Weber SK, Winkler PM, Wu Y, Xiao M, Yan C, Ye Q, Ylisirniö A, Zauner-Wieczorek M, Zha Q, Zhou P, Flagan RC, Curtius J, Baltensperger U, Kulmala M, Kerminen VM, Kurtén T, Donahue NM, Volkamer R, Kirkby J, Worsnop DR, Sipilä M. Role of iodine oxoacids in atmospheric aerosol nucleation. Science 2021; 371:589-595. [PMID: 33542130 DOI: 10.1126/science.abe0298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2020] [Accepted: 01/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Iodic acid (HIO3) is known to form aerosol particles in coastal marine regions, but predicted nucleation and growth rates are lacking. Using the CERN CLOUD (Cosmics Leaving Outdoor Droplets) chamber, we find that the nucleation rates of HIO3 particles are rapid, even exceeding sulfuric acid-ammonia rates under similar conditions. We also find that ion-induced nucleation involves IO3 - and the sequential addition of HIO3 and that it proceeds at the kinetic limit below +10°C. In contrast, neutral nucleation involves the repeated sequential addition of iodous acid (HIO2) followed by HIO3, showing that HIO2 plays a key stabilizing role. Freshly formed particles are composed almost entirely of HIO3, which drives rapid particle growth at the kinetic limit. Our measurements indicate that iodine oxoacid particle formation can compete with sulfuric acid in pristine regions of the atmosphere.
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- Xu-Cheng He
- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland.
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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- Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria
- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Aerosol Physics Laboratory, Physics Unit, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Tampere University, 33014 Tampere, Finland
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Aerosol Physics Laboratory, Physics Unit, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Tampere University, 33014 Tampere, Finland
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- CENTRA and Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal
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- Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- CENTRA and Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
- Jiangsu Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center of Climate Change, Nanjing 210023, China
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
- Helsinki Institute of Physics, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute of Ion Physics and Applied Physics, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
- Ionicon Analytik Ges.m.b.H., 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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- Institute of Physics, University of Tartu, 50411 Tartu, Estonia
- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
- Finnish Meteorological Institute, 00560 Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute of Ion Physics and Applied Physics, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
- Ionicon Analytik Ges.m.b.H., 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Applied Physics, University of Eastern Finland, 70211 Kuopio, Finland
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- P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
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- Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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- Institute of Ion Physics and Applied Physics, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
- Jiangsu Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center of Climate Change, Nanjing 210023, China
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- CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
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- P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate, Institute of Physical Chemistry Rocasolano, CSIC, 28006 Madrid, Spain
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- Institute of Chemistry, Eötvös University, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Ion Physics and Applied Physics, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
- Ionicon Analytik Ges.m.b.H., 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Institute of Ion Physics and Applied Physics, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Institute Infante Dom Luíz, University of Beira Interior, 6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Applied Physics, University of Eastern Finland, 70211 Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of Chemistry and Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
- Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
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- Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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- Department of Applied Physics, University of Eastern Finland, 70211 Kuopio, Finland
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
- Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
- Helsinki Institute of Physics, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
- Aerosol and Haze Laboratory, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
- Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
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- CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland.
- Institute for Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
- Aerodyne Research, Inc., Billerica, MA 01821, USA
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research/Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland.
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Hou GL, Wang XB. Molecular Specificity and Proton Transfer Mechanisms in Aerosol Prenucleation Clusters Relevant to New Particle Formation. Acc Chem Res 2020; 53:2816-2827. [PMID: 33108162 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.0c00444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Atmospheric aerosol particles influence the Earth's radiative energy balance and cloud properties, thus impacting the air quality, human health, and Earth's climate change. Because of the important scientific and overarching practical implications of aerosols, the past two decades have seen extensive research efforts, with emphasis on the chemical compositions and underlying mechanisms of aerosol formation. It has been recognized that new particle formation (NPF) contributes up to 50% of atmospheric aerosols. Nowadays, the general consensus is that NPF proceeds via two distinct stages: the nucleation from gaseous precursors to form critical nuclei of sub-1-2 nm size, and the subsequent growth into large particles. However, a fundamental understanding of both the NPF process and molecular-level characterization of the critical size aerosol clusters is still largely missing, hampering the efforts in developing reliable and predictive aerosol nucleation and climate models.Both field measurements and laboratory experiments have gathered convincing evidence about the importance of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in enhancing the nucleation and growth of aerosol particles. Numerous and abundant small clusters composed of sulfuric acid or bisulfate ion and organic molecules have been shown to exist in ∼2 nm sized aerosol particles. In particular, kinetic studies indicated the formation of clusters with one H2SO4 and one or two organics being the rate-limiting step.This Account discusses our effort in developing an integrated approach, which involves the laboratory cluster synthesis via electrospray ionization, size and composition analysis via mass spectrometry, photoelectron spectroscopic characterization, and quantum mechanics based theoretical modeling, to investigate the structures, energetics, and thermodynamics of the aerosol prenucleation clusters relevant to NPF. We have been focusing on the clusters formed between H2SO4 or HSO4- and the organics from oxidation of both biogenic and anthropogenic emissions. We illustrated the significant thermodynamic advantage by involving organic acids in the formation and growth of aerosol clusters. We revealed that the functional groups in the organics play critical roles in promoting NPF process. The enhanced roles were quantified explicitly for specific functional groups, establishing a Molecular Scale that ranks highly hierarchic intermolecular interactions critical to aerosol formation. The different cluster formation pathways, probably mimicking the various polluted industrial environments, that involve cis-pinonic and cis-pinic acids were unveiled as well. Furthermore, one intriguing fundamental phenomenon on the unusual protonation pattern, which violates the gas-phase acidity (proton affinity) prediction, was discovered to be common in sulfuric acid-organic clusters. The mechanism underlying the phenomenon has been rationalized by employing the temperature-dependent experiments of sulfuric acid-formate/halide model clusters, which could explain the high stability of the sulfuric acid containing aerosol clusters. Our work provides critical molecular-level information to shed light on the initial steps of nucleation of common atmospheric precursors and benchmarks critical data for large-scale theoretical modeling to further address problems of environmental interest.
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- Gao-Lei Hou
- Physical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, P.O. Box 999, MS K8-88, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Physical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 902 Battelle Boulevard, P.O. Box 999, MS K8-88, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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Rong H, Liu J, Zhang Y, Du L, Zhang X, Li Z. Nucleation mechanisms of iodic acid in clean and polluted coastal regions. Chemosphere 2020; 253:126743. [PMID: 32464777 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.126743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2020] [Revised: 04/02/2020] [Accepted: 04/06/2020] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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In coastal regions, intense bursts of particles are frequently observed with high concentrations of iodine species, especially iodic acid (IA). However, the nucleation mechanisms of IA, especially in polluted environments with high concentrations of sulfuric acid (SA) and ammonia (A), remain to be fully established. By quantum chemical calculations and atmospheric cluster dynamics code (ACDC) simulations, the self-nucleation of IA in clean coastal regions and that influenced by SA and A in polluted coastal regions are investigated. The results indicate that IA can form stable clusters stabilized by halogen bonds and hydrogen bonds through sequential addition of IA, and the self-nucleation of IA can instantly produce large amounts of stable clusters when the concentration of IA is high during low tide, which is consistent with the observation that intense particle bursts were linked to high concentrations of IA in clean coastal regions. Besides, SA and A can stabilize IA clusters by the formation of more halogen bonds and hydrogen bonds as well as proton transfers, and the binary nucleation of IA-SA/A rather than the self-nucleation of IA appears to be the dominant pathways in polluted coastal regions, especially in winter. These new insights are helpful to understand the mechanisms of new particle formation induced by IA in clean and polluted coastal regions.
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- Hui Rong
- Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, Ministry of Education of China, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, Ministry of Education of China, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, Ministry of Education of China, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China; School of Medical, Zhangjiakou University, Zhangjiakou, 075000, China
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- Environment Research Institute, Shandong University, Qingdao, 266237, China
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- Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, Ministry of Education of China, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Cluster Science, Ministry of Education of China, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China
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Rinaldi M, Paglione M, Decesari S, Harrison RM, Beddows DCS, Ovadnevaite J, Ceburnis D, O'Dowd CD, Simó R, Dall'Osto M. Contribution of Water-Soluble Organic Matter from Multiple Marine Geographic Eco-Regions to Aerosols around Antarctica. Environ Sci Technol 2020; 54:7807-7817. [PMID: 32501707 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c00695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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We present shipborne measurements of size-resolved concentrations of aerosol components across ocean waters next to the Antarctic Peninsula, South Orkney Islands, and South Georgia Island, evidencing aerosol features associated with distinct eco-regions. Nonmethanesulfonic acid Water-Soluble Organic Matter (WSOM) represented 6-8% and 11-22% of the aerosol PM1 mass originated in open ocean (OO) and sea ice (SI) regions, respectively. Other major components included sea salt (86-88% OO, 24-27% SI), non sea salt sulfate (3-4% OO, 35-40% SI), and MSA (1-2% OO, 11-12% SI). The chemical composition of WSOM encompasses secondary organic components with diverse behaviors: while alkylamine concentrations were higher in SI air masses, oxalic acid showed higher concentrations in the open ocean air. Our online single-particle mass spectrometry data exclude a widespread source from sea bird colonies, while the secondary production of oxalic acid and sulfur-containing organic species via cloud processing is suggested. We claim that the potential impact of the sympagic planktonic ecosystem on aerosol composition has been overlooked in past studies, and multiple eco-regions act as distinct aerosol sources around Antarctica.
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- Matteo Rinaldi
- Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, National Research Council, Bologna 40129, Italy
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- Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, National Research Council, Bologna 40129, Italy
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- Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, National Research Council, Bologna 40129, Italy
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- National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
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- National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
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- School of Physics and Centre for Climate and Air Pollution Studies, Ryan Institute, National University of Ireland Galway, University Road, Galway H91 TK33, Ireland
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- School of Physics and Centre for Climate and Air Pollution Studies, Ryan Institute, National University of Ireland Galway, University Road, Galway H91 TK33, Ireland
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- School of Physics and Centre for Climate and Air Pollution Studies, Ryan Institute, National University of Ireland Galway, University Road, Galway H91 TK33, Ireland
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- Institute of Marine Sciences, Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta, 37-49, Barcelona E-08003, Spain
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- Institute of Marine Sciences, Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta, 37-49, Barcelona E-08003, Spain
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