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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
卷 3, 期 10, 页码 1269-1274出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jz300255x
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- Canada Foundation for Innovation
- Natural Science and Engineering Research Council
Using nonresonant second harmonic generation spectroscopy, we have monitored the change in surface charge density of the silica/water interface over a broad pH range in the presence of different alkali chlorides. Planar silica is known to possess two types of surface sites with pK(a) values of similar to 4 and similar to 9, which are attributed to different solvation environments of the silanols. We report that varying the alkali chloride electrolyte significantly changes the effective acid dissociation constant (pK(a)(eff)) for the less acidic silanol groups, with the silica/NaClaq and silica/CsClaq interfaces exhibiting the lowest and highest pK(a)(eff) values of 8.3(1) and 10.8(1), respectively. Additionally, the relative populations of the two silanol groups are also very sensitive to the electrolyte identity. The greatest percentage of acidic silanol groups was 60(2)% for the silica/LiClaq interface in contrast to the lowest value of 20(2)% for the silica/NaClaq interface. We attribute these changes in the bimodal behavior to the influence of alkali ions on the interfacial water structure and its corresponding effect on surface acidity.
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