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Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Volume 75, 2024

Chemical Kinetics in Microdroplets

Abstract

Micrometer-sized compartments play significant roles in driving heterogeneous transformations within atmospheric and biochemical systems as well as providing vehicles for drug delivery and novel reaction environments for the synthesis of industrial chemicals. Many reports now indicate that reaction kinetics are accelerated under microconfinement, for example, in sprays, thin films, droplets, aerosols, and emulsions. These observations are dramatic, posing a challenge to our understanding of chemical reaction mechanisms with potentially significant practical consequences for predicting the complex chemistry in natural systems. Here we introduce the idea of kinetic confinement, which is intended to provide a conceptual backdrop for understanding when and why microdroplet reaction kinetics differ from their macroscale analogs.

Keyword(s): accelerated chemistry, heterogeneous kinetics, microdroplets, multiphase reactions
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Chemical Kinetics in Microdroplets
Annual Review of Physical Chemistry 75, 185 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-physchem-052623-120718
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