ArticleACS central science2023
Surface-Area-to-Volume Ratio Determines Surface Tensions in Microscopic, Surfactant-Containing Droplets.
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- Aerosol Hygroscopicity and Surface-Active Coverage for the Droplet Growth of Aerosol Mixtures.ACS ES&T air · 2025Article
- Impact of Bulk-Phase Self-Assembly on Growth and Activation of Aqueous Surfactant Aerosol.Environmental science & technology · 2025Article
- Counterion-Mediated Assembly of Fluorocarbon-Hydrocarbon Surfactant Mixtures at the Air-Liquid Interface: A Molecular Dynamics Study.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A Machine Learning Approach for Predicting the Pure-Component Surface Tension of Atmospherically Relevant Organic Compounds.ACS ES&T air · 2025Article
- Use of Humidity Controlled Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Simultaneous Grazing Incidence Small Angle X-ray Scattering to Investigate the Self-assembly and Energetics of Lipid Thin Films.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2025Article
- Properties of Surface-Active Organics in Aerosol Particles Produced from Combustion of Biomass Fuels under Simulated Prescribed-Fire and Wildfire Conditions.ACS ES&T air · 2025Article
- Quantifying surface tension of metastable aerosols via electrodeformation.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Model-Measurement Comparisons for Surfactant-Containing Aerosol Droplets.ACS earth & space chemistry · 2024Article
- Measuring the Surface Tension of Atmospheric Particles and Relevant Mixtures to Better Understand Key Atmospheric Processes.Chemical reviews · 2024Review
- Surfactant Partitioning Dynamics in Freshly Generated Aerosol Droplets.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2024Article
- Scratching the Surface of Individual Aerosol Particle Properties.ACS central science · 2023Article
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Abstract
The surface composition of aerosol droplets is central to predicting cloud droplet number concentrations, understanding atmospheric pollutant transformation, and interpreting observations of accelerated droplet chemistry. Due to the large surface-area-to-volume ratios of aerosol droplets, adsorption of surfactant at the air-liquid interface can deplete the droplet's bulk concentration, leading to droplet surface compositions that do not match those of the solutions that produced them. Through direct measurements of individual surfactant-containing, micrometer-sized droplet surface tensions, and fully independent predictive thermodynamic modeling of droplet surface tension, we demonstrate that, for strong surfactants, the droplet's surface-area-to-volume ratio becomes the key factor in determining droplet surface tension rather than differences in surfactant properties. For the same total surfactant concentration, the surface tension of a droplet can be >40 mN/m higher than that of the macroscopic solution that produced it. These observations indicate that an explicit consideration of surface-area-to-volume ratios is required when investigating heterogeneous chemical reactivity at the surface of aerosol droplets or estimating aerosol activation to cloud droplets.
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