▶️ #LabPlot tutorial: LabPlot Tutorial: Nucleation & Growth Rate Analysis.  

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The CN's Lab has published another video tutorial that shows how to analyze #nucleation and #growth mechanisms using LabPlot with #chronoamperometry data.

➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj3BI5X-cyo

#FreeSoftware #DataAnalysis #DataViz #Research #OriginProAlternative #Science #Tutorial #FLOSS #FOSS #OpenSource #AlternativeTo #KDE #Researchers #MaterialsScience #Science #Nanomaterials #ScharifkerHills

"LabPlot Tutorial: Nucleation & Growth Rate Analysis | Scharifker-Hills Model

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Seeding Clouds With Wildfire

Raging wildfires send plumes of smoke up into the atmosphere; that smoke is made up of tiny particles that can serve as seeds — nucleation sites — where water vapor can freeze and form clouds. To understand wildfire’s effect on cloud growth, researchers sampled air from the troposphere (the atmosphere’s lowest layer) both in and around wildfire smoke.

The team found that smoke increased the number of nucleating particles up to 100 times higher than the background air, but the exact make-up of the smoke varied significantly by fire. Smoke particles were mostly organic, though inorganic ones appeared as well. The temperature of a fire, as well as what materials it was burning, made a big difference; the fire where they measured the highest particle concentrations included lots of unburned plant material, thought to be carried aloft by turbulence around the fire. (Image credit: K. Barry; research credit: K. Barry et al.; via Eos)

#cloudFormation #fluidDynamics #nucleation #physics #science #smoke #turbulence #wildfire

Many industrial processes, including those producing aluminum and “green” hydrogen, use electrodes to speed up chemical reactions. Unfortunately, bubbles that form on the electrode reduce its efficiency anywhere from 10 to 25 percent by blocking parts of the electrode. The assumption has been that any area shadowed by bubbles is blocked, but a recent study shows that’s not the case. Instead, it’s only the electrode area in direct contact with the bubble that’s blocked.

To show this, researchers looked at a smooth electrode where bubbles formed randomly (left) and a nanotextured one with many spots where bubbles could form (right). In the animation above, bubble shadows are highlighted with circles. There are clearly more bubbles on the nanotextured electrode, but it actually performs better than the smooth electrode because the bubble contact area is smaller. (Image and research credit: J. Lake et al.; via MIT News)

https://fyfluiddynamics.com/2024/11/blocking-bubbles/

#bubbles #chemistry #fluidDynamics #nanoscale #nucleation #physics #science #surfaceRoughness

So many natural processes take place right in front of us, but they’re too small and too fast to see. Here, the Beauty of Science team puts some of those processes — crystallizing solids, nucleating bubbles, and more — front and center. The shapes and colors draw you in, inviting you to engage with science we see daily but rarely appreciate. (Video and image credit: Beauty of Science)

https://fyfluiddynamics.com/2024/09/microscopic-world/

#bubbles #fluidDynamics #fluidsAsArt #freezing #miscibility #nucleation #physics #science

Plankton Generate a Cloudy Shield over the Antarctic

Southern Ocean phytoplankton help to brighten Earth’s clouds

Scientific American
@Wolfie_Rankin this is why you don't clean your cups *too* hard.
#nucleation
This Friday, 10:30 PM EST, @pierrekawak talks about his work on #simulation of #crystal #nucleation in polymer melts! twitch.tv/open_science
#STEM #scicomm #chemtwitter #openscience #streaming #educational #chemistrymastodon #chemistry #Twitch #science #ScienceMastodon
Our latest work headed by former postdoc Aamir Ali finally out - we describe cooperation of XMAP215 family microtubule polymerase ch-TOG/CKAP5 with #gammaTuRC in promoting #microtubule #nucleation in human cells.
Details here: https://rdcu.be/c4cFp For a summary continue 1/n 👇🏼