Nature Communications (Aug 2016)

Unravelling the electrochemical double layer by direct probing of the solid/liquid interface

  • Marco Favaro,
  • Beomgyun Jeong,
  • Philip N. Ross,
  • Junko Yano,
  • Zahid Hussain,
  • Zhi Liu,
  • Ethan J. Crumlin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12695
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The electrochemical double layer is a key concept in chemistry, but its properties are hard to probe experimentally. Here, the authors use ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to probe the electrochemical double layer potential profile at the solid/liquid interface, under polarization conditions.