The present work describes the development of an environmental chamber (EC), with temperature and humidity control, for measuring ice growth kinetics over a substrate with an atomic force microscope (AFM). The main component of the EC is an AFM fluid glass cell. The relative humidity (RH) inside the EC is set by the flow of a controlled ratio of dry and humid nitrogen gases. The sample temperature is fixed with an AFM commercial accessory, while the temperature of the nitrogen gas inside the EC is controlled by circulating cold nitrogen vapor through a copper cooler, specially designed for this purpose. With this setup, we could study the growth rate of ice crystallization over a mica substrate by measuring the force exerted between the tip and the sample when they approach each other as a function of time. This experimental development represents a significant improvement with respect to previous experimental determinations of ice growth rates, where RH and temperature of the air above the sample were determined far away from the ice crystallization regions, in opposition to the present work.
Environmental chamber with controlled temperature and relative humidity for ice crystallization kinetic measurements by atomic force microscopy / M.M. Gianetti, J. Gelman Constantin, H.R. Corti, M.P. Longinotti. - In: REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS. - ISSN 0034-6748. - 91:2(2020 Feb 06), pp. 023704.1-023704.7. [10.1063/1.5132537]
Environmental chamber with controlled temperature and relative humidity for ice crystallization kinetic measurements by atomic force microscopy
M.M. GianettiPrimo
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2020
Abstract
The present work describes the development of an environmental chamber (EC), with temperature and humidity control, for measuring ice growth kinetics over a substrate with an atomic force microscope (AFM). The main component of the EC is an AFM fluid glass cell. The relative humidity (RH) inside the EC is set by the flow of a controlled ratio of dry and humid nitrogen gases. The sample temperature is fixed with an AFM commercial accessory, while the temperature of the nitrogen gas inside the EC is controlled by circulating cold nitrogen vapor through a copper cooler, specially designed for this purpose. With this setup, we could study the growth rate of ice crystallization over a mica substrate by measuring the force exerted between the tip and the sample when they approach each other as a function of time. This experimental development represents a significant improvement with respect to previous experimental determinations of ice growth rates, where RH and temperature of the air above the sample were determined far away from the ice crystallization regions, in opposition to the present work.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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