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Title: Adhesion Energies of Solvent Films to Pt(111) and Ni(111) Surfaces by Adsorption Calorimetry

Abstract

Solvent/metal adhesion energies are vital to understanding solvent effects on adsorption energies, which are, in turn, central to understanding liquid-phase catalysis, electrocatalysis, and many other technologies such as adsorption-based separations and chemical sensors. Differences in reactant adsorption energies in different solvents are dominated by differences in their solvent/metal adhesion energies. Here, the adhesion energies of five liquid solvents to clean Pt(111) and Ni(111) surfaces have been estimated using ultrahigh vacuum calorimetric measurements of heats of adsorption versus coverage integrated from zero coverage up to thick (bulk-like) multilayer solid films. The adhesion energies are found to vary from 0.15 to 0.60 J/m2, increasing in the trend CH3OH < HCOOH < H2O < benzene ≈ phenol. This trend suggests that solvents with higher heats of adsorption per unit area in the first adsorbed layer have higher adhesion energies to a given metal surface. The adhesion energies to Ni(111) are generally larger than to Pt(111) (on average by 0.09 J/m2). This is due to the 24% higher number of metal atoms per unit area on Ni(111) than on Pt(111) and, with oxygen-containing solvents, the greater oxophilicity of Ni compared to that of Pt.

Authors:
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  1. Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)
OSTI Identifier:
1597966
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG02-96ER14630; CHE-1665077
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
ACS Catalysis
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 9; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 2155-5435
Publisher:
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; solvent effects; adhesion energy; liquid / solid interface; adsorption in liquids; catalysis

Citation Formats

Rumptz, John R., and Campbell, Charles T. Adhesion Energies of Solvent Films to Pt(111) and Ni(111) Surfaces by Adsorption Calorimetry. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1021/acscatal.9b03591.
Rumptz, John R., & Campbell, Charles T. Adhesion Energies of Solvent Films to Pt(111) and Ni(111) Surfaces by Adsorption Calorimetry. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.9b03591
Rumptz, John R., and Campbell, Charles T. Thu . "Adhesion Energies of Solvent Films to Pt(111) and Ni(111) Surfaces by Adsorption Calorimetry". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.9b03591. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1597966.
@article{osti_1597966,
title = {Adhesion Energies of Solvent Films to Pt(111) and Ni(111) Surfaces by Adsorption Calorimetry},
author = {Rumptz, John R. and Campbell, Charles T.},
abstractNote = {Solvent/metal adhesion energies are vital to understanding solvent effects on adsorption energies, which are, in turn, central to understanding liquid-phase catalysis, electrocatalysis, and many other technologies such as adsorption-based separations and chemical sensors. Differences in reactant adsorption energies in different solvents are dominated by differences in their solvent/metal adhesion energies. Here, the adhesion energies of five liquid solvents to clean Pt(111) and Ni(111) surfaces have been estimated using ultrahigh vacuum calorimetric measurements of heats of adsorption versus coverage integrated from zero coverage up to thick (bulk-like) multilayer solid films. The adhesion energies are found to vary from 0.15 to 0.60 J/m2, increasing in the trend CH3OH < HCOOH < H2O < benzene ≈ phenol. This trend suggests that solvents with higher heats of adsorption per unit area in the first adsorbed layer have higher adhesion energies to a given metal surface. The adhesion energies to Ni(111) are generally larger than to Pt(111) (on average by 0.09 J/m2). This is due to the 24% higher number of metal atoms per unit area on Ni(111) than on Pt(111) and, with oxygen-containing solvents, the greater oxophilicity of Ni compared to that of Pt.},
doi = {10.1021/acscatal.9b03591},
journal = {ACS Catalysis},
number = 12,
volume = 9,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Oct 31 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Thu Oct 31 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}