Influences of Oxidation Degree and Size on the Ice Nucleation Efficiency of Graphene Oxide
- Guoying Bai*
Guoying BaiSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, ChinaMore by Guoying Bai
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- Haiyan Zhang
Haiyan ZhangSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, ChinaMore by Haiyan Zhang
Abstract
Figuring out the influences of carbonaceous particle properties on ice nucleation is important to atmospheric science, but it is still a challenge, especially for experimental investigations due to the coupling effect of multiple properties. Here we separately investigate the effects of oxidation degree and size, two typical and debated factors, on ice nucleation efficiency by choosing graphene oxide (GO) as the model. The results show that with the decrease of oxidation degree, ice nucleation efficiency increases through decreasing the ice nucleation free energy barrier ( ) on GO surface. Interestingly, although the chosen GO sizes are sufficiently large compared with the sizes of critical ice nuclei, the increase of GO size leads to the increase of and thus the decrease of ice nucleation efficiency, unlike the general thought that is not affected by the particle size any more when the size of particle increases to several times that of the critical ice nucleus.
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