Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry,
55128 Mainz, Germany
State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Formation and
Prevention of Urban Air Pollution Complex, Shanghai Academy of Environmental
Sciences, 200233 Shanghai, China
Nan Ma
Institute for Environmental and Climate Research, Jinan University,
511443 Guangzhou, China
We investigate the hygroscopic behavior of levoglucosan and D-glucose nanoparticles using a nano-HTDMA. There is a weak size dependence of the hygroscopic growth factor of levoglucosan and D-glucose with diameters down to 20 nm, while a strong size dependence of the hygroscopic growth factor of D-glucose has been clearly observed in the size range 6 to 20 nm. The use of the DKA method leads to good agreement with the hygroscopic growth factor of glucose nanoparticles with diameters down to 6 nm.
We investigate the hygroscopic behavior of levoglucosan and D-glucose nanoparticles using a...