Molecular characterization of ultrafine particles using extractive electrospray time-of-flight mass spectrometry
Mihnea Surdu, Veronika Pospíšilová, Mao Xiao, Mingyi Wang, Bernhard Mentler, Mario Simon, Dominik Stolzenburg, C. R. Hoyle, David M. Bell, Chuan Ping Lee, Houssni Lamkaddam, Felipe D. Lopez‐Hilfiker, Lauri Ahonen, A. Amorim, Andrea Baccarini, Dexian Chen, Lubna Dada, Jonathan Duplissy, Henning Finkenzeller, Xu‐Cheng He, Victoria Hofbauer, Changhyuk Kim, Andreas Kürten, А. Н. Квашнин, Katrianne Lehtipalo, В. С. Махмутов, Ugo Molteni, Wei Nie, Antti Onnela, Tuukka Petäjä, Lauriane L. J. Quéléver, Christian Tauber, António Tomé, Robert Wagner, Chao Yan, Andrê S. H. Prévôt, Josef Dommen, Neil M. Donahue, Armin Hansel, Joachim Curtius, Paul M. Winkler, Markku Kulmala, Rainer Volkamer, Richard C. Flagan, J. Kirkby, Douglas R. Worsnop, Jay G. Slowik, Dongyu Wang, Urs Baltensperger, Imad El Haddad
Abstract
in real time. This was until now difficult to achieve, as other online instruments are often limited by size cutoffs, ionization/thermal fragmentation and/or semi-continuous sampling. Using real-time simultaneous gas- and particle-phase data, we discuss the condensation of naphthalene oxidation products on a molecular level.