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High Pressure Inside Nanometer-Sized Particles Influences the Rate and Products of Chemical Reactions

Frédéric Caupin

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The composition of organic aerosol has a pivotal influence on aerosol properties such as toxicity and cloud droplet formation capability, which could affect both climate and air quality. However, a comprehensive and fundamental understanding of the chemical and physical processes that occur in nanometer-sized atmospheric particles remains a challenge that severely limits the quantification and predictive capabilities of aerosol formation pathways. Here, we investigated the effects of a fundamental and hitherto unconsidered physical property of nanoparticles-the Laplace pressure. By studying the reaction of glyoxal with ammonium sulfate, both ubiquitous and important atmospheric constituents, we show that high pressure can significantly affect the chemical processes that occur in atmospheric ultrafine particles (i.e., particles < 100 nm). Using high-resolution mass spectrometry and UV-vis spectroscopy, we demonstrated that the formation of reaction products is strongly (i.e., up to a factor of 2) slowed down under high pressures typical of atmospheric nanoparticles. A size-dependent relative rate constant is determined and numerical simulations illustrate the reduction in the production of the main glyoxal reaction products. These results established that the high pressure inside nanometer-sized aerosols must be considered as a key property that significantly impacts chemical processes that govern atmospheric aerosol growth and evolution.
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hal-03363154 , version 1 (03-10-2021)

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Matthieu Riva, Jianfeng Sun, V. Faye Mcneill, Charline Ragon, Sebastien Perrier, et al.. High Pressure Inside Nanometer-Sized Particles Influences the Rate and Products of Chemical Reactions. Environmental Science and Technology, 2021, 55 (12), pp.7786-7793. ⟨10.1021/acs.est.0c07386⟩. ⟨hal-03363154⟩
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