INFRARED SPECTROSCOPIC STUDY OF ELECTRIC DOUBLE-LAYERS ON PT(111) UNDER ELECTRODE-REACTIONS IN A SULFURIC-ACID-SOLUTION

The electric double layer structures on a Pt(111) electrode in H2SO4 s olution were studied by in-situ and ex-situ infrared spectroscopies, a nd the structures were successfully created by a gas phase adsorption of H2O and SO3 under UHV conditions. The absorption bands of hydrogen, neutral water, hydronium cation and bisulfate anion were observed in the in-situ spectra as a function of an electrode potential. Similar s pectra could be reproduced by sequential gas doses of H2O and SO3 on P t(111) at low temperatures under ultrahigh vacuum conditions (ex-situ measurements). The various kinds of electrode reaction were responsibl e for the real double layer structures as well as the electrode potent ials.