Nadine Borduas-Dedekind
@nadineborduas
Bringing the analytical organic chemistry toolkit to #atmoschem #icenucleation. Team leader of the #NBDGroup @UBCChem via 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇩🇪🇦🇺🇿🇦🇨🇭Skier Believer
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We discovered 2 new atmospherically-relevant biopolymers that can nucleate ice: laminarin (sea spray) & xylan (BBOA)! We think the reason they can template ice in supercooled droplets is because they aggregate to form nanoparticles, now in The Journal of Chemical Physics : pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/articl…