Microscale water vapor competition visualization
Directly visualizes water vapor nucleation on particles using ESEM, revealing how surface structure and aggregation modes determine competitive nucleation, providing microscopic guidance for industrial dust removal pretreatment.
Lv, Li · Xiangcheng, Wu · Xu, Junchao · Zhang, Jun · Qian, Lijuan
Process Safety and Environmental Protection: Transactions of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, Part B 2023
Embryo appears randomly at any edge of smooth spherical particle
Embryo always appears on protuberance of convex spherical particle
Smaller contact angle favors nucleation
Nucleation only observed on two-close and three-circled particles