title: Probing the evaporation of ternary ethanol-methanol-water droplets by cavity enhanced Raman scattering.
abstract: Cavity enhanced Raman scattering is used to characterise the evolving composition of ternary aerosol droplets containing methanol, ethanol and water during evaporation into a dry nitrogen atmosphere. Measurements made using non-linear stimulated Raman scattering from these ternary alcohol-water droplets allow the in situ determination of the concentration of the two alcohol components with high accuracy. The overlapping spontaneous Raman bands of the two alcohol components, arising from C-H stretching vibrational modes, are spectrally-resolved in stimulated Raman scattering measurements. We also demonstrate that the evaporation measurements are consistent with a quasi-steady state evaporation model, which can be used to interpret the evaporation dynamics occurring at a range of pressures at a particular evaporation time.
authors.affiliation: Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
authors.forename: Chris R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Howle
authors.forename: Chris J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Homer
authors.forename: Rebecca J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Hopkins
authors.forename: Jonathan P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Reid