Wh. Mulder, THE CALORIC EFFECT OF ADSORPTION AT THE ELECTRIFIED METAL ELECTROLYTEINTERFACE, The Journal of chemical physics, 103(14), 1995, pp. 6164-6172
A thermodynamic treatment of the polarizable metal/electrolyte interfa
ce is presented and generalizes the classical electro-capillary equati
on, which interrelates variations in interfacial tension, cell potenti
al, and solution composition, to include temperature changes. The resu
lt can be used in investigations of the structure of electrified inter
faces; for example, in the calculation of entropy changes which occur
in the solvent layer adjacent to the metal surface (inner or Stern lay
er) and, in particular, in the study of phase transitions in insoluble
organic monolayers adsorbed at an electrochemical interface. (C) 1995
American Institute of Physics.