Publications associées à Sursaturation

Highly Hygroscopic Aerosols Facilitate Summer and Early‐Autumn Cloud Formation at Extremely Low Concentrations Over the Central Arctic Ocean

Arctic clouds are sensitive to atmospheric particles since these are sometimes in such low concentrations that clouds cannot always form under supersaturated water vapor conditions. This is especially true in the late summer, when aerosol concentrations ar ...

2024

Implementation of the ISORROPIA-lite aerosol thermodynamics model into the EMAC chemistry climate model (based on MESSy v2.55): implications for aerosol composition and acidity

Athanasios Nenes, Spyros Pandis

This study explores the differences in performance and results by various versions of the ISORROPIA thermodynamic module implemented within the ECHAM/MESSy Atmospheric Chemistry (EMAC) model. Three different versions of the module were used, ISORROPIA II v ...

Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh2024

Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) concentrations measured in the Swiss container during MOSAiC 2019/2020

Julia Schmale, Benjamin Jérémy Laurent Heutte, Nora Bergner, Ivo Fabio Beck, Hélène Paule Angot, Lubna Dada

This dataset contains CCN concentrations at five supersaturation levels, averaged to 1 min time resolution, measured during the year-long Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition from October 2019 to Septem ...

2023

Electron diffraction of deeply supercooled water in no man’s land

Marcel Drabbels, Ulrich Lorenz, Constantin Richard Krüger, Gabriele Bongiovanni, Nathan Junior Mowry

A generally accepted understanding of the anomalous properties of water will only emerge if it becomes possible to systematically characterize water in the deeply supercooled regime, from where the anomalies appear to emanate. This has largely remained elu ...

Nature Research2023

Solidification of Metallic Alloys: Does the Structure of the Liquid Matter?

Michel Rappaz, Güven Kurtuldu

In 1952, Frank (Proc R Soc Lond Ser-Math Phys Sci 215:43-46, 1952) already postulated that Icosahedral Short Range Order (ISRO) of atoms in the liquid could possibly explain the large nucleation undercoolings measured in metallic alloys by Turnbull and Fis ...

SPRINGER2020

Density effects on solute release from the streambed

David Andrew Barry

Contaminants can be released to the stream from the bed by previous pollution events. The releasing contaminants may cause secondary pollution for a river, which impacts the river’s eco-environmental condition. By means of laboratory experiments and numeri ...

2020

In Situ Liquid SAXS Studies on the Early Stage of Calcium Carbonate Formation

Andrea Testino, Mohammad Reza Andalibi, Agnese Carino

Calcium carbonate is a model system to investigate the mechanism of solid formation by precipitation from solutions, and it is often considered in the debated classical and nonclassical nucleation mechanism. Despite the great scientific relevance of calciu ...

2019

Entropy as a tool for crystal discovery

Pablo Miguel Piaggi

The computational prediction of crystal structures has emerged as an useful alternative to expensive and often cumbersome experiments. We propose an approach to the prediction of crystal structures and polymorphism based on reproducing the crystallization ...

EPFL2019

Chemical shrinkage of ye'elimite with and without gypsum addition

Karen Scrivener, Mohsen Ben Haha, Frank Bullerjahn

Ye'elimite (Ca4Al6O12SO4 or C(4)A(3)S) is the main hydraulic mineral present in calcium sulphoaluminate cement (CSA). Its reaction is responsible for the (early) hydration and associated cement properties such as the chemical shrinkage. This paper discusse ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2019

An experimental study on flow boiling pressure drop in multi-microchannel evaporators with different refrigerants

John Richard Thome, Houxue Huang

A key parameter in designing two-phase flow systems for the cooling of high heat flux electronics is the pressure drop in microchannel evaporators. As a result, an experimental study was performed to investigate the flow boiling pressure drop of refrigeran ...

Elsevier Science Inc2017

Beer tapping: dynamics of bubbles after impact

François Gallaire, Pierre-Thomas Paul Brun, Vladislav Mantic Lugo

Beer tapping is a well known prank where a bottle of beer is impacted from the top by a solid object, usually another bottle, leading to a sudden foam overflow. A description of the shock-driven bubble dynamics leading to foaming is presented based on an e ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Impact of the supplementary cementitious materials on the kinetics and microstructural development of cement hydration

Elise Marie Jeanne Berodier

Supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) are currently used to replace part of the clinker to reduce the environmental impact of cement and to favor the use of local materials. Two representative SCM have been used in this work: slag and fly ash. Each o ...

EPFL2015

Nanowires of Methylammonium Lead Iodide (CH(3)NH(3)Pbl(3)) Prepared by Low Temperature Solution-Mediated Crystallization

László Forró, Endre Horvath, Richard Gaal, Massimo Spina

We report the synthesis of Methylammonium Lead Iodide (CH3NH3PbI3) nanowires by a low temperature solution processed crystallization using a simple slip-coating method. The anisotropic particle shape exhibits advantages over nanoparticles in terms of charg ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Hydration and dimensional stability of calcium aluminate cement based systems

Julien Bizzozero

Calcium aluminate cements (CAC) are often used in combination with calcium sulfate and Portland cement for special applications where rapid setting, rapid drying and shrinkage compensation are required. A growing fraction of the clinker, which has the high ...

EPFL2014

Mechanism of expansion of mortars immersed in sodium sulfate solutions

Karen Scrivener, Wei Sun, Cheng Yu

The mechanisms behind the expansion of samples immersed in solutions containing sulfate ions have been controversial. Expansion is believed to originate in the formation of ettringite, but it is not possible to find any direct correlation between these two ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2013

Influence of bicarbonate ions on the deterioration of mortar bars in sulfate solutions

Karen Scrivener, Barbara Lothenbach, Wolfgang Kunther

This work investigates the influence of bicarbonate ions on the deterioration of cementitious material exposed to sulfate ions. Mortars based on a CEM I and on a CEM III/B cement were investigated. Experimental investigations were compared to thermodynamic ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2013

On the relevance of volume increase for the length changes of mortar bars in sulfate solutions

Karen Scrivener, Barbara Lothenbach, Wolfgang Kunther

The ingress of sulfate ions into cementitious materials leads to the formation of ettringite, gypsum and other phases. The increase in solid volume through the formation of these phases is often assumed to be the only reason for expansion. In this paper we ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2013

Phase-field modeling of micropore formation in a solidifying alloy

Hossein Meidani

This thesis is focused on the study of the morphology of micropores formed during solidification of metallic alloys. Micropores constrained to form in well-developed dendritic solid network adopt complex non-spherical shapes. Previous studies using X-ray t ...

EPFL2013

Raman Lidar for Meteorological Observations, RALMO - Part 2: Validation of water vapor measurements

Valentin Simeonov, Bertrand Calpini

The Raman Lidar for Meteorological Observations (RALMO) was installed at the MeteoSwiss Regional Center of Payerne, Switzerland, in summer 2008. One of its aims is to provide continuous vertical profiles of tropospheric water vapor during day and night at ...

European Geosciences Union2013

Investigation of Sulfate Attack by Experimental and Thermodynamic Means

Wolfgang Kunther

This work investigates sulfate attack in complex sulfate environments by exposing different binder types to various sulfate solutions and comparing predicted phase and volume changes with experimental data. The most important aspects of this work can be gr ...

EPFL2012