• 文献标题:   Direct Probe of Electrochemical Pseudocapacitive pH Jump at a Graphene Electrode
  • 文献类型:   Article, Early Access
  • 作  者:   WANG YK, SEKI T, LIU X, YU XQ, YU CC, DOMKE KF, HUNGER J, KOPER MTM, CHEN YF, NAGATA Y, BONN M
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, interfacial water, pseudocapacitance, sumfrequency generation
  • 出版物名称:   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIEINTERNATIONAL EDITION
  • ISSN:   1433-7851 EI 1521-3773
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  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1002/anie.202216604 EA FEB 2023
  • 出版年:   2023

▎ 摘  要

Molecular-level insight into interfacial water at a buried electrode interface is essential in electrochemistry, but spectroscopic probing of the interface remains challenging. Here, using surface-specific heterodyne-detected sum-frequency generation (HD-SFG) spectroscopy, we directly access the interfacial water in contact with the graphene electrode supported on calcium fluoride (CaF2). We find phase transition-like variations of the HD-SFG spectra vs. applied potentials, which arises not from the charging/discharging of graphene but from the charging/discharging of the CaF2 substrate through the pseudocapacitive process. The potential-dependent spectra are nearly identical to the pH-dependent spectra, evidencing that the pseudocapacitive behavior is associated with a substantial local pH change induced by water dissociation between the CaF2 and graphene. Our work evidences the local molecular-level effects of pseudocapacitive charging at an electrode/aqueous electrolyte interface.