Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

Analytical Chemistry Seminar: Shuichi Ushijima

Monday April 4 2016 @ 12:00 pm
to 1:00 pm

April

4

Mon

2016

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Event Type
Seminar
Availability

Open to Public

Audience
  • CIRES employees
  • CU Boulder employees
  • General Public
  • NOAA employees
  • Science collaborators
    • Host
    CIRES, CU Boulder

    Analytical & Environmental Chemistry Division and Atmospheric Chemistry Program Seminar

    Jointly sponsored by the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, CIRES, and the Environmental Program

    Heterogeneous Efflorescence by Mineral Dust Particles
     
    by Shuichi Ushijima - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado Boulder

    One of the key factors that determines particle growth and heterogeneous reaction efficiency of aerosols is whether the particle is liquid or solid.  Salt aerosols transition between these phases through efflorescence and deliquescence.  Although homogeneous efflorescence has been studied in detail, heterogeneous efflorescence is not well understood.  Here we examined heterogeneous efflorescence by optically levitating single droplets of salt solutions and exposed the droplet to a flow of mineral dust particles.  The impact of mineral dust on efflorescence and the difference between immersion and contact efflorescence will be discussed.