Researchers from the Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Engineering have successfully developed a new technique allowing them to observe gas molecules packing into metal-organic frameworks (MOF) using infrared spectroscopy. Their innovation was to measure…
Physics
CLOUD discovers new way by which aerosols rapidly form and grow at high altitude
Aerosol particles can form and grow in Earth’s upper troposphere in an unexpected way, reports the CLOUD collaboration in a paper published in Nature. The new mechanism may represent a major source of cloud and ice seed particles in…