Small aromatic hydrocarbons control the onset of soot nucleation

2020/10/27 by Kevin Gleason, Francesco Carbone, Andrew J. Sumner +4 · 70 citations
Chemical Engineering · Chemistry · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Engineering · #Advanced Combustion Engine Technologies #Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols #Chemical engineering #Chemical physics #Chemistry #Combustion #Combustion and flame dynamics #Nucleation #Organic chemistry #Particle (ecology) #Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon #Soot

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2020.08.029

published in Combustion and Flame 223, 398-406 (Elsevier BV)

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