Evaporation and molecular beam scattering from a flat liquid jet

11 March 2022, Version 1
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Abstract

An experimental setup for molecular beam scattering from flat liquid sheets has been developed, with the goal of studying reactions at gas-liquid interfaces for volatile liquids. Specifically, a crossed molecular beam instrument that can measure angular and translational energy distributions of scattered products has been adapted for liquid jet scattering. A microfluidic chip is used to create a stable flat liquid sheet inside vacuum from which scattering occurs, and both evaporation and scattering from this sheet are characterized by a rotatable mass spectrometer that can measure product time-of-flight distributions. This manuscript describes the instrument and reports on first measurements of evaporation of dodecane and Ne from a Ne-doped dodecane flat jet, as well as scattering of Ne from a flat jet of pure dodecane.

Keywords

molecular beam scattering
liquid interface
liquid flat jet

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