Impact of surfactant interactions on fate of marine aerosols: NO3-initiated oxidation of cerebroside/fatty acid mixtures studied by NR/IRRAS

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Mixed films of palmitic acid (PA) and galactocerebrosides (GCB) –a proxy for marine aerosol– exhibit attractive interactions due to H-bonding of galactose and carbonyl head groups. We will expose these films to nitrate radicals (NO3) to investigate the impact of atmospheric ageing on surface interactions and ordering. We will harvest the recently developed capability of INTER to simultaneously study deuterated surfactants by NR and obtain information about hydrogenated co-surfactants (as well as the deuterated surfactant) by IRRAS. We will study the oxidation of PA/GCB mixtures (with and without added Ca2+) and then –in an exploratory study– replace PA by its unsaturated analogue palmitoleic acid (POA). We will thus be able to quantify the impact of H-bonding/Ca2+ on the oxidation kinetics and on the material left at the interface, key for the aerosol droplet's fate and cloud formation.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.81735476
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/81735476
Provenance
Creator Mr Ben Woden; Dr Christian Pfrang; Dr Maxmilian Skoda; Mr Matthew Hagreen
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-07-18T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-07-22T08:00:00Z