Articles | Volume 11, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-3479-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-11-3479-2018
Research article
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19 Jun 2018
Research article |  | 19 Jun 2018

Kinetically controlled glass transition measurement of organic aerosol thin films using broadband dielectric spectroscopy

Yue Zhang, Shachi Katira, Andrew Lee, Andrew T. Lambe, Timothy B. Onasch, Wen Xu, William A. Brooks, Manjula R. Canagaratna, Andrew Freedman, John T. Jayne, Doug R. Worsnop, Paul Davidovits, David Chandler, and Charles E. Kolb

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We have adopted a new technique for measuring glass-forming properties of atmospherically relevant organic aerosols at submicron sizes and relatively low mass concentrations. Aerosol particles are deposited in the form of a thin film with interdigitated electrodes using electrostatic precipitation. Broadband dielectric spectroscopy is used to measure the kinetically controlled glass transition temperatures of glycerol and citric acid aerosols with three atmospheric relevant cooling rates.