The Spontaneous Electron-Mediated Redox Processes on Sprayed Water Microdroplets.

ABSTRACT: Water is considered as an inert environment for the dispersion of many chemical systems. However, by simply spraying bulk water into microsized droplets, the water microdroplets have been shown to possess a large plethora of unique properties, including the ability to accelerate chemical reactions by several orders of magnitude compared to the same reactions in bulk water, and/or to trigger spontaneous reactions that cannot occur in bulk water. A high electric field (∼10⁹ V/m) at the air-water interface of microdroplets has been postulated to be the probable cause of the unique chemistries. This high field can even oxidize electrons out of hydroxide ions or other closed-shell molecules dissolved in water, forming radicals and electrons. Subsequently, the electrons can trigger fu

SUBMITTER: Jin S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10301804 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature