Microfluidic immersion freezing of  binary mineral mixtures containing  microcline, montmorillonite, or quartz

Shardt, Nadia; Isenrich, Florin N.; Nette, Julia; Dreimol, Christopher; Ma, Ning; Kanji, Zamin A.; deMello, Andrew J.; Marcolli, Claudia

doi:10.5194/acp-25-17997-2025

Articles | Volume 25, issue 23

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-17997-2025

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-17997-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 25, issue 23

Research article

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09 Dec 2025

Research article |

| 09 Dec 2025

Microfluidic immersion freezing of binary mineral mixtures containing microcline, montmorillonite, or quartz

Nadia Shardt, Florin N. Isenrich, Julia Nette, Christopher Dreimol, Ning Ma, Zamin A. Kanji, Andrew J. deMello, and Claudia Marcolli

Data sets

Dataset: Microfluidic Immersion Freezing of Binary Mineral Mixtures Containing Microcline, Montmorillonite, or Quartz Nadia Shardt et al. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000736892

Short summary

In the atmosphere, minerals suspended in cloud droplets promote the formation of ice. We investigated ice formation in the presence of pure and binary mixtures of common minerals using a microfluidic device. The mineral with the best ability to initiate ice formation alone (that is, at the highest temperature) typically determined when ice formed in the binary mixture.