The influence of the molar mass of a carrier gas on the formation of nanoparticles in the vapor phase is investigated. The function of the carrier gas atmosphere is the regulation of the particle temperature by collisions with the cluster surface. The aim of this work is to optimize the carrier gas in a simulation in order to mimic a large amount of carrier gas atoms by few gas atoms with effective parameters. In this context the efficiency of the heat exchange with the carrier gas depending on its molar mass is analyzed. As a result one finds for varying molar masses and unchanged interaction parameters a competition between the efficiency and the number of the collisions. For too small molar masses the energy exchange per collision is too small while for too high masses the carrier gas atoms become very slow, decreasing the number of collisions.
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14 August 2009
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August 14 2009
Influence of the carrier gas molar mass on the particle formation in a vapor phase
S. Braun;
S. Braun
Institute for Physical Chemistry,
University Cologne
, Luxemburger Str. 116, D-50939 Köln, Germany
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F. Römer;
F. Römer
Institute for Physical Chemistry,
University Cologne
, Luxemburger Str. 116, D-50939 Köln, Germany
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Electronic mail: t.kraska@uni-koeln.de.
J. Chem. Phys. 131, 064308 (2009)
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Received:
July 11 2008
Accepted:
July 23 2009
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S. Braun, F. Römer, T. Kraska; Influence of the carrier gas molar mass on the particle formation in a vapor phase. J. Chem. Phys. 14 August 2009; 131 (6): 064308. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3204780
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