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ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
Volume 56, Issue 28, Pages 10645-10651Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2011.02.001
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Transition metal electrodes; Blank voltammetry; DFT calculations; Water dissociation; Double layer region
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This paper discusses the relationship between the blank voltammetry of various hexagonally close-packed transition-metal electrodes, and DFT calculations of the binding energy of H, OH and O as well as UHV experiments on the dissociation of water on the same surfaces. The binding energies of H, OH and O can be used to predict the phase diagram of the electrode surface including the potentials of the transition between different surface states. The width of the voltammetric peaks corresponding to these transitions can be used to estimate the effective lateral interactions between the adsorbates involved, where effectively attractive interactions may often be explained by a replacement reaction. The detailed comparison shows that only for Pt(1 1 1) and Pd(1 1 1) the existence of a double-layer region is fully consistent with the available experimental and computational data. The Ru(0 0 0 1) surface does not have a double-layer region, but is covered with residues of water dissociation at every potential. The situation is unclear for Rh(1 1 1) and Ir(1 1 1) electrodes, for which a double-layer region has been claimed in the literature, but in both cases the claims are (at least partially) inconsistent with theoretical predictions. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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