Changing shapes and implied viscosities of suspended submicron particles

Zhang, Y.; Sanchez, M. S.; Douet, C.; Wang, Y.; Bateman, A. P.; Gong, Z.; Kuwata, M.; Renbaum-Wolff, L.; Sato, B. B.; Liu, P. F.; Bertram, A. K.; Geiger, F. M.; Martin, S. T.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-7819-2015

Articles | Volume 15, issue 14

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-7819-2015

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-7819-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 14

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16 Jul 2015

Research article |

| 16 Jul 2015

Changing shapes and implied viscosities of suspended submicron particles

Y. Zhang, M. S. Sanchez, C. Douet, Y. Wang, A. P. Bateman, Z. Gong, M. Kuwata, L. Renbaum-Wolff, B. B. Sato, P. F. Liu, A. K. Bertram, F. M. Geiger, and S. T. Martin

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (29 Jun 2015) by Hang Su

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The present work estimates the viscosity of submicron organic particles while they are still suspended as an aerosol without further post-processing techniques that can possibly alter the properties of semi-volatile materials. Results imply that atmospheric particles, at least those similar to the ones of this study and for low- to middle-RH regimes, can reach equilibrium or react rather slowly with the surrounding gas phase on time scales even longer than the residence time in the atmosphere.