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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 141, Issue 39, Pages 15524-15531Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b05148
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- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) [FA9550-18-1-0420]
- Samsung Scholarship
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We quantify changes in the magnitude of the interfacial electric field under the conditions of H-2/H+ catalysis at a Pt surface. We track the product distribution of a local pH-sensitive, surface-catalyzed nonfaradaic reaction, H-2 addition to cis-2-butene-1,4-diol to form n-butanol and 1,4-butanediol, to quantify the concentration of solvated H+ at a Pt surface that is constantly held at the reversible hydrogen electrode potential. By tracking the surface H+ concentration across a wide range of pH and ionic strengths, we directly quantify the magnitude of the electrostatic potential drop at the Pt/solution interface and establish that it increases by similar to 60 mV per unit increase in pH. These results provide direct insight into the electric field environment at the Pt surface and highlight the dramatically amplified field existent under alkaline vs acidic conditions.
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