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SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 478, Issue 1-2, Pages L339-L344Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-6028(01)00957-8
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metal-electrolyte interfaces; platinum; hydrogen atom; Monte Carlo simulations
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By comparison of the experimental and simulated voltammetric curves of a series of stepped platinum electrodes in contact with a sulfuric acid electrolyte. we show that hydrogen adsorbed on steps and on terraces exhibit very different lateral interactions. Hydrogen on terraces have repulsive lateral interaction energies, whereas hydrogen adatoms on steps attract each other. We believe that the most likely interpretation of the attractive interaction between the hydrogens on the steps is a H-induced local surface reconstruction of the steps under electrochemical conditions. We also demonstrate that, in agreement with experiment, diluting the quasi-perfect (111) surface with periodic steps suppresses the singular butterfly feature related to an order-disorder transition in the sulfate adlayer, due to the perturbation of the surface long-ranee order. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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