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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 109, Issue 27, Pages 13049-13051Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp052913r
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The arrangement of ions at the platinum electrode in the room-temperature ionic liquid 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate has been determined using sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy (SFG), electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), and the vibrational Stark effect. The results indicate that CO adsorbed on the Pt electrode has a Stark shift of 30-35 cm(-1)/V in the ionic liquid. The potential of zero charge (PZC) of the ionic liquid-Pt system is approximately -500 mV (vs Ag wire), with a capacitance of 0.12 F/m(2). Further, polarization-dependent SFG experiments suggest the ions reorganize at the surface depending on the electrode charge. In combination, all these results indicate that the ions of a neat ionic liquid are organized in a Helmholtz layer at the electrified metal electrode interface.
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