ELECTROCHEMICAL SCANNING-TUNNELING-MICROSCOPY (EC-STM) STUDY OF SILVER ELECTRODEPOSITION FROM A ROOM-TEMPERATURE MOLTEN-SALT

Authors
ENDRES F FREYLAND W GILBERT B
Citation
F. Endres et al., ELECTROCHEMICAL SCANNING-TUNNELING-MICROSCOPY (EC-STM) STUDY OF SILVER ELECTRODEPOSITION FROM A ROOM-TEMPERATURE MOLTEN-SALT, Berichte der Bunsengesellschaft fur Physikalische Chemie, 101(7), 1997, pp. 1075-1077
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Chemistry Physical
Journal title
Berichte der Bunsengesellschaft fur Physikalische Chemie
ISSN journal
00059021 → ACNP
Volume
101
Issue
7
Year of publication
1997
Pages
1075 - 1077
Database
ISI
SICI code
0005-9021(1997)101:7<1075:ES(SOS>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
Preliminary results by in situ EC-STM on the electrodeposition of silv er on highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) from a room temperatur e molten salt are presented. The molten salt was composed of 55 mol-% AlCl3, and 45 mol-% 1-methyl-3-butyl-imidazolium chloride - this mixtu re is liquid at ambient temperature - and contained AgCl in a concentr ation of 0.025 mol/l. The results show for the first time that HOPG ca n be imaged at this interface with atomic resolution and that the silv er deposition/dissolution process can be viewed in situ.