Charged droplets play important roles in many different processes and applications, including chemistry in thunderclouds, spray painting, propulsion systems and in mass spectrometry.  Thousands of laboratories world-wide use electrospray ionization to produce gaseous analytes for characterization by mass spectrometry.  The chemistry and physics of large micron size droplets have been investigated using a wide variety of methods, including optical methods.  In contrast, much less is known about the smaller nanodrops produced using nanospray, especially those produced using emitters with sub-micron tips.  Reactions can be accelerated in nanodrops, and droplet lifetimes can be sufficiently short that fast processes in the low microsecond time-scale can be investigated.  Kinetic information can be obtained from reactions in different sized nanodrops.  The breakup of aqueous nanodrops and how ions are formed is a continuing area of interest, and new information about these and other processes that occur in aqueous nanodrops will be presented.

Chemistry in charged aqueous nanodrops

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