Observation of viscosity transition in α-pinene secondary organic aerosol

Emma Jaervinen; Karoliina Ignatius; Leonid Nichman; Thomas B. Kristensen; Claudia Fuchs; Christopher R. Hoyle; Niko Hoeppel; Joel C. Corbin; Jill Craven; Jonathan Duplissy; Sebastian Ehrhart; Imad El Haddad; Carla Frege; Hamish Gordon; Tuija Jokinen; Peter Kallinger; Jasper Kirkby; Alexei Kiselev; Karl-Heinz Naumann; Tuukka Petaja; Tamara Pinterich; Andre S. H. Prevot; Harald Saathoff; Thea Schiebel; Kamalika Sengupta; Mario Simon; Jay G. Slowik; Jasmin Troestl; Annele Virtanen; Paul Vochezer; Steffen Vogt; Andrea C. Wagner; Robert Wagner; Christina Williamson; Paul M. Winkler; Chao Yan; Urs Baltensperger; Neil M. Donahue; Rick C. Flagan; Martin Gallagher; Armin Hansel; Markku Kulmala; Frank Stratmann; Douglas R. Worsnop; Ottmar Moehler; Thomas Leisner; Martin Schnaiter

doi:10.5194/acp-16-4423-2016

Observation of viscosity transition in α-pinene secondary organic aerosol

Emma Jaervinen (Corresponding author)
, Karoliina Ignatius
, Leonid Nichman
, Thomas B. Kristensen
, Claudia Fuchs
, Christopher R. Hoyle
, Niko Hoeppel
, Joel C. Corbin
, Jill Craven
, Jonathan Duplissy
, Sebastian Ehrhart
, Imad El Haddad
, Carla Frege
, Hamish Gordon
, Tuija Jokinen
, Peter Kallinger
, Jasper Kirkby
, Alexei Kiselev
, Karl-Heinz Naumann
, Tuukka Petaja

Tamara Pinterich, Andre S. H. Prevot, Harald Saathoff, Thea Schiebel, Kamalika Sengupta, Mario Simon, Jay G. Slowik, Jasmin Troestl, Annele Virtanen, Paul Vochezer, Steffen Vogt, Andrea C. Wagner, Robert Wagner, Christina Williamson, Paul M. Winkler, Chao Yan, Urs Baltensperger, Neil M. Donahue, Rick C. Flagan, Martin Gallagher, Armin Hansel, Markku Kulmala, Frank Stratmann, Douglas R. Worsnop, Ottmar Moehler, Thomas Leisner, Martin Schnaiter

Aerosol Physics and Environmental Physics

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Abstract

Under certain conditions, secondary organic aerosol (SOA) particles can exist in the atmosphere in an amorphous solid or semi-solid state. To determine their relevance to processes such as ice nucleation or chemistry occurring within particles requires knowledge of the temperature and relative humidity (RH) range for SOA to exist in these states. In the Cosmics Leaving Outdoor Droplets (CLOUD) experiment at The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), we deployed a new in situ optical method to detect the viscous state of α-pinene SOA particles and measured their transition from the amorphous highly viscous state to states of lower viscosity. The method is based on the depolarising properties of laboratory-produced non-spherical SOA particles and their transformation to non-depolarising spherical particles at relative humidities near the deliquescence point. We found that particles formed and grown in the chamber developed an asymmetric shape through coagulation. A transition to a spherical shape was observed as the RH was increased to between 35% at-10°C and 80% at-38°C, confirming previous calculations of the viscosity-transition conditions. Consequently, α-pinene SOA particles exist in a viscous state over a wide range of ambient conditions, including the cirrus region of the free troposphere. This has implications for the physical, chemical, and ice-nucleation properties of SOA and SOA-coated particles in the atmosphere.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4423-4438
Number of pages	16
Journal	Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Volume	16
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4423-2016
Publication status	Published - 2016

Funding

We would like to thank the two anonymous referees for their valuable comments. We thank CERN for supporting CLOUD with important technical and financial resources. We thank the CLOUD-TRAIN community and specially all the ITN students for their help and support. This research has received funding from the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union (Marie Curie-Networks for Initial Training MC-ITN CLOUD-TRAIN no. 316662), from Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) grant number 200021 140663, from US National Science Foundation grants AGS-1447056 and AGS-1439551, from Dreyfus Award EP-11-117, from German Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF (project no. 01LK1222A and B), from the Davidow Foundation, and from the funding of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) through the CLOUD12 project.

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

103039 Aerosol physics

Keywords

LINEAR DEPOLARIZATION RATIO
ICE NUCLEATION
CLOUD CHAMBER
NONSPHERICAL PARTICLES
ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS
OXIDATION-PRODUCTS
RELATIVE-HUMIDITY
MASS-SPECTROMETRY
GLASSY AEROSOLS
SOA PARTICLES

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Jaervinen, E., Ignatius, K., Nichman, L., Kristensen, T. B., Fuchs, C., Hoyle, C. R., Hoeppel, N., Corbin, J. C., Craven, J., Duplissy, J., Ehrhart, S., El Haddad, I., Frege, C., Gordon, H., Jokinen, T., Kallinger, P., Kirkby, J., Kiselev, A., Naumann, K.-H., ... Schnaiter, M. (2016). Observation of viscosity transition in α-pinene secondary organic aerosol. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 16(7), 4423-4438. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-4423-2016

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