Articles | Volume 22, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-155-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-155-2022
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05 Jan 2022
Research article |  | 05 Jan 2022

Effects of oligomerization and decomposition on the nanoparticle growth: a model study

Arto Heitto, Kari Lehtinen, Tuukka Petäjä, Felipe Lopez-Hilfiker, Joel A. Thornton, Markku Kulmala, and Taina Yli-Juuti

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For atmospheric aerosol particles to take part in cloud formation, they need to be at least a few tens of nanometers in diameter. By using a particle condensation model, we investigated how two types of chemical reactions, oligomerization and decomposition, of organic molecules inside the particle may affect the growth of secondary aerosol particles to these sizes. We show that the effect is potentially significant, which highlights the importance of increasing understanding of these processes.
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