Local, environment surface

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The formation of anodic and cathodic sites, necessary to produce corrosion, can occur for any of a number of reasons impurities in the metal, localized stresses, metal grain size or composition differences, discontinuities on the surface, and differences in the local environment (eg, temperature, oxygen, or salt concentration). When these local differences are not large and the anodic and cathodic sites can shift from place to place on the metal surface, corrosion is uniform. With uniform corrosion, fouling is usually a more serious problem than equipment failure. 

Solid state NMR is a relatively recent spectroscopic technique that can be used to uniquely identify and quantitate crystalline phases in bulk materials and at surfaces and interfaces. While NMR resembles X-ray diffraction in this capacity, it has the additional advantage of being element-selective and inherently quantitative. Since the signal observed is a direct reflection of the local environment of the element under smdy, NMR can also provide structural insights on a molecularlevel. Thus, information about coordination numbers, local symmetry, and internuclear bond distances is readily available. This feature is particularly usefrd in the structural analysis of highly disordered, amorphous, and compositionally complex systems, where diffraction techniques and other spectroscopies (IR, Raman, EXAFS) often fail. 

It is important to appreciate the assumption implicit in the concept of roughness factor chemical nature and local environment of surface molecules on the rough surface and on smooth surface are the same. 

Porous samples would appear on the surface to provide such a complex and uncontrolled local environment for deformation of solids that they would be of little interest in scientific investigations. Indeed, the principal interest in their responses is technologically driven they are very effective attenuators of wave profiles and much of materials synthesis and processing is carried out on powders. Duvall [86D01] has summarized the difficulty of work with porous powder samples as follows ... 

The circles in Fig. 16.6a show the calculated sensitivity, AX/Am for these different cases. As can be seen, the innermost holes are the most sensitive to any refractive index changes in the local environment as opposed to the holes that are further away from the cavity. These results can be explained by noting that the evanescent field is largest inside the innermost holes and decreases inside holes that are situated further away from the cavity. This is important to note because targeting only the inner most holes for functionalization allows for the lowest possible limit of mass detection for this device. In the case where only the inner two holes are functionalized we find that the resonance shifts by 3.5 nm when 1 fg of DNA binds to the resonator. Therefore, a mass change of 10 ag would result in a mass surface density of 0.84 ng cm 2 and an approximate shift of 0.01 nm, which can be experimentally detected. We therefore take this as the potential LOD of the device. 

Vibrational spectroscopy is the experimentalist s most powerful tool for studying the effects of changes in local environment on individual chemical bonds. Studies of simple adsorbates like CO which have strong characteristic absorption bands have contributed greatly to our understanding of adsorption processes at surfaces (1). As shown here and in other papers in this symposium, recent experimental developments have led to a renewed effort to use the vibrational spectroscopy of adsorbates as a probe for understanding the physical chemistry of metal/electrolyte interfaces. 

It is important to stress that the activity coefficients (and the concentrations) in equation 16.18 refer to the species close to the surface of the electrode, and so can be very different from the values in the bulk solution. This is portrayed in figure 16.6, which displays the Stern model of the double layer [332], One (positive) layer is formed by the charges at the surface of the electrode the other layer, called the outer Helmholtz plane (OHP), is created by the solvated ions with negative charge. Beyond the OHP, the concentration of anions decreases until it reaches the bulk value. Although more sophisticated double-layer models have been proposed [332], it is apparent from figure 16.6 that the local environment of the species that are close to the electrode is distinct from that in the bulk solution. Therefore, the activity coefficients are also different. As these quantities are not... 

The material sputtered from surfaces on which molecules have been chemisorbed generally consists of a collection of single atoms, strongly bound molecules, and weakly bound molecular clusters, any of which may be neutral or charged. It is often assumed, perhaps naively, that the identity and the local environment of molecules on the surface can be directly deduced from the... 

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