Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

A gas-to-particle conversion mechanism helps to explain atmospheric particle formation through clustering of iodine oxides

  • Juan Carlos Gómez Martín,
  • Thomas R. Lewis,
  • Mark A. Blitz,
  • John M. C. Plane,
  • Manoj Kumar,
  • Joseph S. Francisco,
  • Alfonso Saiz-Lopez

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18252-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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“How iodine-bearing molecules contribute to atmospheric aerosol formation is not well understood. Here, the authors provide a new gas-to-particle conversion mechanism and show that clustering of iodine oxides is an essential component of this process while previously proposed iodic acid does not play a large role.”