Iodine oxoacids enhance nucleation of sulfuric acid particles in the atmosphere

Xu Cheng He; Mario Simon; Siddharth Iyer; Hong Bin Xie; Birte Rörup; Jiali Shen; Henning Finkenzeller; Dominik Stolzenburg; Rongjie Zhang; Andrea Baccarini; Yee Jun Tham; Mingyi Wang; Stavros Amanatidis; Ana A. Piedehierro; Antonio Amorim; Rima Baalbaki; Zoé Brasseur; Lucía Caudillo; Biwu Chu; Lubna Dada; Jonathan Duplissy; Imad El Haddad; Richard C. Flagan; Manuel Granzin; Armin Hansel; Martin Heinritzi; Victoria Hofbauer; Tuija Jokinen; Deniz Kemppainen; Weimeng Kong; Jordan Krechmer; Andreas Kürten; Houssni Lamkaddam; Brandon Lopez; Fangfang Ma; Naser G.A. Mahfouz; Vladimir Makhmutov; Hanna E. Manninen; Guillaume Marie; Ruby Marten; Dario Massabò; Roy L. Mauldin; Bernhard Mentler; Antti Onnela; Tuukka Petäjä; Joschka Pfeifer; Maxim Philippov; Ananth Ranjithkumar; Matti P. Rissanen; Siegfried Schobesberger; Wiebke Scholz; Benjamin Schulze; Mihnea Surdu; Roseline C. Thakur; António Tomé; Andrea C. Wagner; Dongyu Wang; Yonghong Wang; Stefan K. Weber; André Welti; Paul M. Winkler; Marcel Zauner-Wieczorek; Urs Baltensperger; Joachim Curtius; Theo Kurtén; Douglas R. Worsnop; Rainer Volkamer; Katrianne Lehtipalo; Jasper Kirkby; Neil M. Donahue; Mikko Sipilä; Markku Kulmala

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Iodine oxoacids enhance nucleation of sulfuric acid particles in the atmosphere

Xu Cheng He (Corresponding author), Mario Simon, Siddharth Iyer, Hong Bin Xie (Corresponding author), Birte Rörup, Jiali Shen, Henning Finkenzeller, Dominik Stolzenburg, Rongjie Zhang, Andrea Baccarini, Yee Jun Tham, Mingyi Wang, Stavros Amanatidis, Ana A. Piedehierro, Antonio Amorim, Rima Baalbaki, Zoé Brasseur, Lucía Caudillo, Biwu Chu, Lubna DadaJonathan Duplissy, Imad El Haddad, Richard C. Flagan, Manuel Granzin, Armin Hansel, Martin Heinritzi, Victoria Hofbauer, Tuija Jokinen, Deniz Kemppainen, Weimeng Kong, Jordan Krechmer, Andreas Kürten, Houssni Lamkaddam, Brandon Lopez, Fangfang Ma, Naser G.A. Mahfouz, Vladimir Makhmutov, Hanna E. Manninen, Guillaume Marie, Ruby Marten, Dario Massabò, Roy L. Mauldin, Bernhard Mentler, Antti Onnela, Tuukka Petäjä, Joschka Pfeifer, Maxim Philippov, Ananth Ranjithkumar, Matti P. Rissanen, Siegfried Schobesberger, Wiebke Scholz, Benjamin Schulze, Mihnea Surdu, Roseline C. Thakur, António Tomé, Andrea C. Wagner, Dongyu Wang, Yonghong Wang, Stefan K. Weber, André Welti, Paul M. Winkler, Marcel Zauner-Wieczorek, Urs Baltensperger, Joachim Curtius, Theo Kurtén, Douglas R. Worsnop, Rainer Volkamer, Katrianne Lehtipalo, Jasper Kirkby, Neil M. Donahue, Mikko Sipilä (Corresponding author), Markku Kulmala (Corresponding author)

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Abstract

The main nucleating vapor in the atmosphere is thought to be sulfuric acid (H₂SO₄), stabilized by ammonia (NH₃). However, in marine and polar regions, NH₃ is generally low, and H₂SO₄ is frequently found together with iodine oxoacids [HIO_x, i.e., iodic acid (HIO₃) and iodous acid (HIO₂)]. In experiments performed with the CERN CLOUD (Cosmics Leaving OUtdoor Droplets) chamber, we investigated the interplay of H₂SO₄ and HIO_x during atmospheric particle nucleation. We found that HIO_x greatly enhances H₂SO₄(-NH₃) nucleation through two different interactions. First, HIO₃ strongly binds with H₂SO₄ in charged clusters so they drive particle nucleation synergistically. Second, HIO₂ substitutes for NH₃, forming strongly bound H₂SO₄-HIO₂ acid-base pairs in molecular clusters. Global observations imply that HIO_x is enhancing H₂SO₄(-NH₃) nucleation rates 10- to 10,000-fold in marine and polar regions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1308-1314
Number of pages	7
Journal	Science
Volume	382
Issue number	6676
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adh2526
Publication status	Published - 14 Dec 2023

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103039 Aerosol physics
103037 Environmental physics
105208 Atmospheric chemistry

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He, X. C., Simon, M., Iyer, S., Xie, H. B., Rörup, B., Shen, J., Finkenzeller, H., Stolzenburg, D., Zhang, R., Baccarini, A., Tham, Y. J., Wang, M., Amanatidis, S., Piedehierro, A. A., Amorim, A., Baalbaki, R., Brasseur, Z., Caudillo, L., Chu, B., ... Kulmala, M. (2023). Iodine oxoacids enhance nucleation of sulfuric acid particles in the atmosphere. Science, 382(6676), 1308-1314. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adh2526

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