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Xu P, Wang R, Zhang H, Carnevale V, Borguet E, Suntivich J. Cation Modifies Interfacial Water Structures on Platinum during Alkaline Hydrogen Electrocatalysis. J Am Chem Soc 2024; 146:2426-2434. [PMID: 38228289 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c09128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2024]
Abstract
The molecular details of an electrocatalytic interface play an essential role in the production of sustainable fuels and value-added chemicals. Many electrochemical reactions exhibit strong cation-dependent activities, but how cations affect reaction kinetics is still elusive. We report the effect of cations (K+, Li+, and Ba2+) on the interfacial water structure using second-harmonic generation (SHG) and classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulation. The second- (χH2O(2)) and third-order (χH2O(3)) optical susceptibilities of water on Pt are smaller in the presence of Ba2+ compared to those of K+, suggesting that cations can affect the interfacial water orientation. MD simulation reproduces experimental SHG observations and further shows that the competition between cation hydration and interfacial water alignment governs the net water orientation. The impact of cations on interfacial water supports a cation hydration-mediated mechanism for hydrogen electrocatalysis; i.e., the reaction occurs via water dissociation followed by cation-assisted hydroxide/water exchange on Pt. Our study highlights the role of interfacial water in electrocatalysis and how innocent additives (such as cations) can affect the local electrochemical environment.
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- Pengtao Xu
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
- Center for Complex Materials from First-Principles (CCM), Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
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- Institute for Computational Molecular Science, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
- Department of Biology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
- Center for Complex Materials from First-Principles (CCM), Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
- Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, United States
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Bibi SB, El-Zohry AM, Davies B, Grigorev V, Goodwin CM, Lömker P, Holm A, Ali-Löytty H, Garcia-Martinez F, Schlueter C, Soldemo M, Koroidov S, Hansson T. Multi-spectroscopic study of electrochemically-formed oxide-derived gold electrodes. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2024; 26:2332-2340. [PMID: 38165839 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp04009g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2024]
Abstract
Oxide-derived metals are produced by reducing an oxide precursor. These materials, including gold, have shown improved catalytic performance over many native metals. The origin of this improvement for gold is not yet understood. In this study, operando non-resonant sum frequency generation (SFG) and ex situ high-pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (HP-XPS) have been employed to investigate electrochemically-formed oxide-derived gold (OD-Au) from polycrystalline gold surfaces. A range of different oxidizing conditions were used to form OD-Au in acidic aqueous medium (H3PO4, pH = 1). Our electrochemical data after OD-Au is generated suggest that the surface is metallic gold, however SFG signal variations indicate the presence of subsurface gold oxide remnants between the metallic gold surface layer and bulk gold. The HP-XPS results suggest that this subsurface gold oxide could be in the form of Au2O3 or Au(OH)3. Furthermore, the SFG measurements show that with reducing electrochemical treatments the original gold metallic state can be restored, meaning the subsurface gold oxide is released. This work demonstrates that remnants of gold oxide persist beneath the topmost gold layer when the OD-Au is created, potentially facilitating the understanding of the improved catalytic properties of OD-Au.
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- Sara Boscolo Bibi
- Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
- Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, Svante Arrhenius väg 16C, 114 18 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Surface Science Group, Photonics Laboratory, Tampere University, P.O. Box 692, FI-33014 Tampere University, Finland
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- Photon Science, Deutsches ElektronenSynchrotron (DESY), 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
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Bañuelos JL, Borguet E, Brown GE, Cygan RT, DeYoreo JJ, Dove PM, Gaigeot MP, Geiger FM, Gibbs JM, Grassian VH, Ilgen AG, Jun YS, Kabengi N, Katz L, Kubicki JD, Lützenkirchen J, Putnis CV, Remsing RC, Rosso KM, Rother G, Sulpizi M, Villalobos M, Zhang H. Oxide- and Silicate-Water Interfaces and Their Roles in Technology and the Environment. Chem Rev 2023; 123:6413-6544. [PMID: 37186959 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.2c00130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Interfacial reactions drive all elemental cycling on Earth and play pivotal roles in human activities such as agriculture, water purification, energy production and storage, environmental contaminant remediation, and nuclear waste repository management. The onset of the 21st century marked the beginning of a more detailed understanding of mineral aqueous interfaces enabled by advances in techniques that use tunable high-flux focused ultrafast laser and X-ray sources to provide near-atomic measurement resolution, as well as by nanofabrication approaches that enable transmission electron microscopy in a liquid cell. This leap into atomic- and nanometer-scale measurements has uncovered scale-dependent phenomena whose reaction thermodynamics, kinetics, and pathways deviate from previous observations made on larger systems. A second key advance is new experimental evidence for what scientists hypothesized but could not test previously, namely, interfacial chemical reactions are frequently driven by "anomalies" or "non-idealities" such as defects, nanoconfinement, and other nontypical chemical structures. Third, progress in computational chemistry has yielded new insights that allow a move beyond simple schematics, leading to a molecular model of these complex interfaces. In combination with surface-sensitive measurements, we have gained knowledge of the interfacial structure and dynamics, including the underlying solid surface and the immediately adjacent water and aqueous ions, enabling a better definition of what constitutes the oxide- and silicate-water interfaces. This critical review discusses how science progresses from understanding ideal solid-water interfaces to more realistic systems, focusing on accomplishments in the last 20 years and identifying challenges and future opportunities for the community to address. We anticipate that the next 20 years will focus on understanding and predicting dynamic transient and reactive structures over greater spatial and temporal ranges as well as systems of greater structural and chemical complexity. Closer collaborations of theoretical and experimental experts across disciplines will continue to be critical to achieving this great aspiration.
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- José Leobardo Bañuelos
- Department of Physics, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States
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- Physical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, United States
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- Department of Geosciences, Department of Chemistry, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, United States
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- Université Paris-Saclay, Univ Evry, CNRS, LAMBE UMR8587, 91025 Evry-Courcouronnes, France
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G2Canada
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, California 92093, United States
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- Geochemistry Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185, United States
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- Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, United States
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- Department of Geosciences, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, United States
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- Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Earth, Environmental & Resource Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968, United States
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- Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Institut für Nukleare Entsorgung─INE, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen 76344, Germany
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- Institute for Mineralogy, University of Münster, Münster D-48149, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, United States
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- Physical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99354, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Department of Physics, Ruhr Universität Bochum, NB6, 65, 44780, Bochum, Germany
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- Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales y del Suelo, LANGEM, Instituto De Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City 04510, Mexico
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States
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Ma E, Ohno PE, Kim J, Liu Y, Lozier EH, Miller TF, Wang HF, Geiger FM. A New Imaginary Term in the Second-Order Nonlinear Susceptibility from Charged Interfaces. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:5649-5659. [PMID: 34110833 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c01103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
Abstract
Nonresonant second harmonic generation (SHG) phase and amplitude measurements obtained from the silica-water interface at varying pH values and an ionic strength of 0.5 M point to the existence of a nonlinear susceptibility term, which we call χX(3), that is associated with a 90° phase shift. Including this contribution in a model for the total effective second-order nonlinear susceptibility produces reasonable point estimates for interfacial potentials and second-order nonlinear susceptibilities when χX(3) ≈ 1.5χwater(3). A model without this term and containing only traditional χ(2) and χ(3) terms cannot recapitulate the experimental data. The new model also provides a demonstrated utility for distinguishing apparent differences in the second-order nonlinear susceptibility when the electrolyte is NaCl versus MgSO4, pointing to the possibility of using heterodyne-detected SHG to investigate ion specificity in interfacial processes.
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- Emily Ma
- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60660, United States
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- Harvard University Center of the Environment, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60660, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60660, United States
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, Fudan University, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai 200433, China
- School of Sciences, Westlake University, Shilongshan Road No. 18, Cloud Town, Xihu District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310024, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60660, United States
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Pfaff S, Larsson A, Orlov D, Harlow GS, Abbondanza G, Linpé W, Rämisch L, Gericke SM, Zetterberg J, Lundgren E. Operando Reflectance Microscopy on Polycrystalline Surfaces in Thermal Catalysis, Electrocatalysis, and Corrosion. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2021; 13:19530-19540. [PMID: 33870682 PMCID: PMC8288973 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c04961] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2021] [Accepted: 04/05/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
Abstract
We have developed a microscope with a spatial resolution of 5 μm, which can be used to image the two-dimensional surface optical reflectance (2D-SOR) of polycrystalline samples in operando conditions. Within the field of surface science, operando tools that give information about the surface structure or chemistry of a sample under realistic experimental conditions have proven to be very valuable to understand the intrinsic reaction mechanisms in thermal catalysis, electrocatalysis, and corrosion science. To study heterogeneous surfaces in situ, the experimental technique must both have spatial resolution and be able to probe through gas or electrolyte. Traditional electron-based surface science techniques are difficult to use under high gas pressure conditions or in an electrolyte due to the short mean free path of electrons. Since it uses visible light, SOR can easily be used under high gas pressure conditions and in the presence of an electrolyte. In this work, we use SOR in combination with a light microscope to gain information about the surface under realistic experimental conditions. We demonstrate this by studying the different grains of three polycrystalline samples: Pd during CO oxidation, Au in electrocatalysis, and duplex stainless steel in corrosion. Optical light-based techniques such as SOR could prove to be a good alternative or addition to more complicated techniques in improving our understanding of complex polycrystalline surfaces with operando measurements.
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- Sebastian Pfaff
- Combustion
Physics, Lund University, Sölvegatan 14, S-22363 Lund, Sweden
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- Division
of Synchrotron Radiation Research, Lund
University, Sölvegatan
14, S-22363 Lund, Sweden
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- Materials
Engineering, Lund University, Ole Römers väg 1, S-22363 Lund, Sweden
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Division
of Synchrotron Radiation Research, Lund
University, Sölvegatan
14, S-22363 Lund, Sweden
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- Division
of Synchrotron Radiation Research, Lund
University, Sölvegatan
14, S-22363 Lund, Sweden
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- Combustion
Physics, Lund University, Sölvegatan 14, S-22363 Lund, Sweden
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- Combustion
Physics, Lund University, Sölvegatan 14, S-22363 Lund, Sweden
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- Combustion
Physics, Lund University, Sölvegatan 14, S-22363 Lund, Sweden
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- Division
of Synchrotron Radiation Research, Lund
University, Sölvegatan
14, S-22363 Lund, Sweden
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