Direct observation of ice nucleation events on individual atmospheric particles

Journal Article
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 18, iss. 43, pp. 29721-29731, 2016
Authors
Bingbing Wang, Daniel A. Knopf, Swarup China, Bruce W. Arey, Tristan H. Harder, Mary K. Gilles, Alexander Laskin
Abstract

Nanometer scale imaging of kaolinite particles shows that ice nucleation initiates preferentially at edges of stacked planes and not on basal planes.

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