INFLUENCE OF SIZE EFFECTS ON THE CRITICAL
DIAMETER AND GROWTH OF NANOPARTICLES

V. V. Levdanskii,a J. Smolik,b
and P. Moravecb

UDC 541.182

The effect exerted by the dependence between the condensation 
and surface-tension coefficients and the size of an aerosol nanoparticle 
on its growth and critical diameter is investigated theoretically.

aA. V. Luikov Heat and Mass 
Transfer Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 15 P. 
Brovka Str., Minsk, 220072, Belarus; email: vlev5@yahoo.com; 
bInstitute of Chemical Process Fundamentals AS 
CR, Prague. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 79, 
No. 2, pp. 14-18, March-April, 2006. Original article submitted 
February 22, 2005.