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Weighing the surface charge of an ionic liquid
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
Attana AB, Sweden.
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; Ghent University, Belgium.
University of Newcastle, Australia.
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2015 (English)In: Nanoscale, ISSN 2040-3364, E-ISSN 2040-3372, Vol. 7, no 38, p. 16039-16045Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance has been used to measure changes in the composition of the capacitive electrical double layer for 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium tris(pentafluoroethyl)-trifluorophosphate, an ionic liquid, in contact with a gold electrode surface as a function of potential. The mass difference between the cation and anion means that the technique can effectively "weigh" the surface charge accurately with high temporal resolution. This reveals quantitatively how changing the potential alters the ratio of cations and anions associated with the electrode surface, and thus the charge per unit area, as well as the kinetics associated with these interfacial processes. The measurements reveal that it is diffusion of co-ions into the interfacial region rather than expulsion of counterions that controls the relaxation. The measured potential dependent double layer capacitance experimentally validates recent theoretical predictions for counterion overscreening (low potentials) and crowding (high potentials) at electrode surfaces. This new capacity to quantitatively measure ion composition is critical for ionic liquid applications ranging from batteries, capacitors and electrodeposition through to boundary layer structure in tribology, and more broadly provides new insight into interfacial processes in concentrated electrolyte solutions.

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URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-168DOI: 10.1039/c5nr03965gScopus ID: 2-s2.0-84942626540OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-168DiVA, id: diva2:939308
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