Nanodroplet aerosols: Nucleation rates and structure

该奖项由化学系实验物理化学项目资助，支持俄亥俄州州立大学的Barbara Wyslouzil教授和她的学生的研究。该实验计划的目标是测量纳米液滴的形成速率和结构。纳米尺寸的液滴在环境和工业环境中通过蒸汽冷凝形成，并且是许多健康，环境和工业挑战的关键要素。准确预测这些相变发生的速率和最终液滴的结构对于开发工业过程，气候和大气化学的可靠模型至关重要。这项工作的结果是感兴趣的研究人员在成核，气溶胶科学，云物理学和材料科学。该项目为本科生和研究生提供了一个丰富的研究环境，高度跨学科，并建立在长期的国际合作基础上。还计划开展一项社区外展工作，将云带入家庭教育和公立学校学生的教室。

This award, funded by the Experimental Physical Chemistry Program of the Division of Chemistry, supports the research of Prof. Barbara Wyslouzil and her students at The Ohio State University. The goals of this experimental program are to measure the formation rates and the structure of nanodroplets. Nanometer-sized droplets form by vapor condensation in both ambient and industrial environments, and are crucial elements in many health, environmental, and industrial challenges. Accurately predicting the rate at which these phase transitions occur and the structure of the final droplets are critical for developing reliable models of industrial processes, climate, and atmospheric chemistry. The results stemming from this work are of interest to researchers in nucleation, aerosol science, cloud physics, and materials science. The project provides a rich research environment for undergraduate and graduate students that is highly interdisciplinary and that builds on a longstanding international collaboration. A community outreach effort to bring clouds into the classrooms of both home schooled and public school students is also planned.