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Competitive Adsorption of Trace Gases on Ice at Tropospheric Temperatures: A Grand Canonical Monte Carlo Simulation Study

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The coadsorption of two atmospheric trace gases on ice is characterized by using, for the first time, grand canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) simulations performed in conditions similar to those of the corresponding experiments. Adsorption isotherms are simulated at tropospheric temperatures by considering two different gas mixtures of 1-butanol and acetic acid molecules, and selectivity of the ice surface with respect to these species is interpreted at the molecular scale as resulting from a competition process between these molecules for being adsorbed at the ice surface. It is thus shown that the trapping of acetic acid molecules on ice is always favored with respect to that of 1-butanol at low pressures, corresponding to low coverage of the surface, whereas the adsorption of the acid species is significantly modified by the presence of the alcohol molecules in the saturated portion of the adsorption isotherm, in accordance with the experimental observations. The present GCMC simulations thus confirm that competitive adsorption effects have to be taken into consideration in real situations when gas mixtures present in the troposphere interact with the surface of ice particles.
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hal-04481403 , version 1 (28-02-2024)

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Julien Joliat, Sylvain Picaud, Pál Jedlovszky. Competitive Adsorption of Trace Gases on Ice at Tropospheric Temperatures: A Grand Canonical Monte Carlo Simulation Study. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2023, 127 (48), pp.10223-10232. ⟨10.1021/acs.jpca.3c04789⟩. ⟨hal-04481403⟩
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