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ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
卷 17, 期 12, 页码 7827-7837出版社
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/acp-17-7827-2017
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- German Research Foundation (DFG) [AB 604/1-1]
- ERC [336679]
- DFG [DFG-FOR-1525-6449, MO668-4-2]
- Helmholtz Association under the Atmosphere and Climate Programme (ATMO)
Surface charge is one of the surface properties of atmospheric aerosols, which has been linked to heterogeneous ice nucleation and hence cloud formation, microphysics, and optical properties. Despite the importance of surface charge for ice nucleation, many questions remain on the molecular-level mechanisms at work. Here, we combine droplet-freezing assay studies with vibrational sum frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy to correlate interfacial water structure to surface nucleation strength. We study immersion freezing of aqueous solutions of various pHs on the atmospherically relevant aluminum oxide alpha-Al2O3 (0001) surface using an isolated droplet on the surface. The high-pH solutions freeze at temperatures higher than that of the low-pH solution, while the neutral pH has the highest freezing temperature. On the molecular level, the SFG spectrum of the interfacial water changes substantially upon freezing. At all pHs, crystallization leads to a reduction of intensity of the 3400 cm-(1) water resonance, while the 3200 cm(-1) intensity drops for low pH but increases for neutral and high pHs. We find that charge-induced surface templating suppresses nucleation, irrespective of the sign of the surface charge. Heterogeneous nucleation is most efficient for the nominally neutral surface.
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