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 Recent publications

1. R.H. Heist, M. Janjua, and J. Ahmed, THE EFFECTS OF BACKGROUND GASES ON THE HOMOGENEOUS NUCLEATION OF VAPORS. I, J. Phys. Chem. 98, 4443 (1994).  {SUMMARY}

2. R.H. Heist and H. He, REVIEW OF VAPOR TO LIQUID HOMOGENEOUS NUCLEATION EXPERIMENTS FROM 1968 TO 1992, J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data 23, 781 (1994). {SUMMARY}

3. R.H. Heist, J. Ahmed, and M. Janjua, THE EFFECTS OF BACKGROUND GASES ON THE HOMOGENEOUS NUCLEATION OF VAPORS. II, J. Phys. Chem. 99, 375 (1995). {SUMMARY}

4. R.H. Heist, HOMOGENEOUS NUCLEATION OF VAPORS:  CRITICAL SUPERSATURATION MEASUREMENTS FOR METHANOL, ETHANOL, 1-PROPANOL, 2-PROPANOL, J. Phys. Chem. 99, 16792 (1995). {SUMMARY}

5. V. Vohra and R.H. Heist, THE FLOW DIFFUSION NUCLEATION CHAMBER:  A QUANTITATIVE TOOL FOR NUCLEATION RESEARCH, J. Chem. Phys. 104, 382 (1996). {SUMMARY}

6. A. Bertelsmann, R. Stuczynski, R.H. Heist, THE EFFECTS OF BACKGROUND GASES ON THE HOMOGENEOUS NUCLEATION OF VAPORS. III, J. Phys. Chem. 100, 9762 (1996). {SUMMARY}

7. A. Bertelsmann, R.H. Heist, TWO DIMENSIONAL TRANSPORT AND WALL EFFECTS IN THE THERMAL DIFFUSION CLOUD CHAMBER  PART I:  ANALYSIS AND OPERATIONS CRITERIA, J. Chem. Phys. 106 , 610 (1997). {SUMMARY}

8. A. Bertelsmann, R.H. Heist, TWO DIMENSIONAL TRANSPORT AND WALL EFFECTS IN THE THERMAL DIFFUSION CLOUD CHAMBER  PART II:  STABILITY OF OPERATION, J. Chem. Phys. 106 , 624 (1997). {SUMMARY}

9. H. He and R.H. Heist, PHOTOINDUCED NUCLEATION OF CARBON DISULFIDE, J. Phys. Chem. A 101, 9309 (1997). {SUMMARY}

10. H. He and R.H. Heist, ULTRAFINE NICKEL PARTICLES GENERATED BY LASER-INDUCED GAS PHASE PHOTONUCLEATION, NanoStructured Materials, 8(7), pp.879-888, Oct.-Nov. (1997). {SUMMARY}SUMMARY}  

11. A. Bertelsmann and R.H. Heist, DIFFUSION CLOUD CHAMBER OPERATION AND THE BACKGROUND GAS EFFECT, Atmospheric Research, 46, 195 (1998). {SUMMARY}

12. A. Bertelsmann and R.H. Heist, NUCLEATION OF 1-PENTANOL USING A THERMAL DIFFUSION CLOUD CHAMBER, J. Aerosol Science and Technology, 28(3), 259 (1998). {SUMMARY}

13. Y. Iida and R.H. Heist, HOMOGENEOUS NUCLEATION OF LIQUIDS in Handbook of Phase Change: Boiling and Condensation, (Taylor and Francis, Philadelphia, PA) eds. S. Kandlikar, M. Shoji and V.K. Dhir, Chap. 4.8, pp. 109-120, 1999.

14. F.T. Ferguson, R.H. Heist and J.A. Nuth III, VAPOR TRANSPORT WITHIN THE THERMAL DIFFUSION CLOUD CHAMBER, J. Chem. Phys. 113(17), 7398 (2000).  {SUMMARY}  

15. M.P. Anisimov, S D. Shandakov, Yu.I. Polygalov and R.H. Heist, TRANSPORT IN THE STATIC DIFFUSION CLOUD CHAMBER REVISITED, J. Chem. Phys. 114(2) 899 (2001).  {SUMMARY}

16. D.M. Martínez, F.T. Ferguson, R.H. Heist and J.A. Nuth III, APPLICATION OF SCALED NUCLEATION THEORY TO METALLIC VAPOR CONDENSATION, J. Chem. Phys. 115(1), 310 (2001).  {SUMMARY}

17. F.T. Ferguson and R.H. Heist, THE IMPACT OF CONVECTIVE FLOW ON THERMAL DIFFUSION CLOUD CHAMBER OPERATION, accepted for publication in J. Phys. Chem. 2001.  {SUMMARY}

18. F.T. Ferguson and R.H. Heist, THE EFFECT OF CARRIER GAS PRESSURE AND WALL HEATING ON THE OPERATION OF THE THERMAL DIFFUSION CLOUD CHAMBER, Accepted for publication in J. Chem. Phys. 2001.  {SUMMARY}

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