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ArticleHardwareX2023

An open-hardware community ice nucleation cold stage for research and teaching.

Sunandan Mahant, Shweta Yadav, Cameron Gilbert, Eva R Kjærgaard, Mads M Jensen, Tommy Kessler, Merete Bilde, Markus D Petters

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Article in HardwareX, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Sunandan MahantDepartment of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8208, USA.
Shweta YadavDepartment of Environmental Sciences, Central University of Jammu, Samba, Jammu, J&K 181143, India.
Cameron GilbertDepartment of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8208, USA.
Eva R KjærgaardDepartment of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
Mads M JensenDepartment of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
Tommy KesslerDepartment of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
Merete BildeDepartment of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
Markus D PettersDepartment of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8208, USA.
Aarhus University · DKNorth Carolina State University · USUniversity of Jammu · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aerosol particles with rare specific properties act as nuclei for ice formation. The presence of ice nucleating particles in the atmosphere leads to heterogeneous freezing at warm temperatures and thus these particles play an important role in modulating microphysical properties of clouds. This work presents an ice nucleation cold stage instrument for measuring the concentration of ice nucleating particles in liquids. The cost is ∼ $10 k including an external chiller. Using a lower cost heat sink reduces the cost to ∼ $6 k. The instrument is suitable for studying ambient ice nucleating particle concentrations and laboratory-based process-level studies of ice nucleation. The design plans allow individuals to self-manufacture the cold-stage using 3D printing, off-the-shelf parts, and a handful of standard tools. Software to operate the instrument and analyze the data is also provided. The design is intended to be simple enough that a graduate student can build it as part of a course or thesis project. Costs are kept to a minimum to facilitate use in classroom demonstrations and laboratory classes.

Indexed as

Aerosol scienceAerosol technologyCold stageDrop freezing assayIce nucleation

Identifiers

PMID38034102
PMCPMC10685009
OpenAlexW4388599417

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