Surface concentration, calculation

The classical electrochemical methods are based on the simultaneous measurement of current and electrode potential. In simple cases the measured current is proportional to the rate of an electrochemical reaction. However, generally the concentrations of the reacting species at the interface are different from those in the bulk, since they are depleted or accumulated during the course of the reaction. So one must determine the interfacial concentrations. There axe two principal ways of doing this. In the first class of methods one of the two variables, either the potential or the current, is kept constant or varied in a simple manner, the other variable is measured, and the surface concentrations are calculated by solving the transport equations under the conditions applied. In the simplest variant the overpotential or the current is stepped from zero to a constant value the transient of the other variable is recorded and extrapolated back to the time at which the step was applied, when the interfacial concentrations were not yet depleted. In the other class of method the transport of the reacting species is enhanced by convection. If the geometry of the system is sufficiently simple, the mass transport equations can be solved, and the surface concentrations calculated. 

It thus appears that the surface concentration calculated with the aid of Gibbs equation is equal on the one hand to minus the surface charge found by Lippmann s equation from the slope of the electro-capillary curve and on the other hand to minus the number of grm. equivalents of mercurous ions taken up by an expanding mercury surface or thrown off a contracting one in the course of the N emst ionic transfer. 

To derive an equation for calculation of surface concentrations (calculated per unit surface of air bubbles) of Cu(0H)2 and DBS, respectively, the following route has been adopted. 

The other characteristic that can be deduced from experimental data is that plots of the rate as a function of t (Equation 7) do not extrapolate to zero rate at infinite time as required by a purely diffusion controlled process ( ). This indicates the presence of a barrier to the desorption step at the interface. This is confirmed by the very much smaller values for the equilibrium sub surface concentrations calculated from desorption kinetics than those expected from the adsorption isotherm at the same pressures. 

This reduced partial structure factor analysis was also applied to the isotactic polymer. For surface concentrations less than 0.8 mgm a uniform layer model fitted the partial structure factor data for the spread polymer very well. Above this value, a Gaussian partial structure factor model fitted best however, even though the standard deviations of the Gaussians were reasonably large, the surface concentrations calculated from the parameters of the distribution were still less than the amount dispensed. This was again taken as evidence that some of the polymer penetrates the sub-phase and becomes lost insofar as the... 

If DBC is dissolved in benzene, and the inorganic salt is present in the aqueous phase, the resultant complex DBC MX (where MX is the metal salt) possesses a higher surface activity (Fig. S). The surface pressure depends also on the salt concentration in the aqueous phase. Consequently, the surface concentrations of DBC and inorganic salt may be determined from surface pressure isotherms. The surface concentrations calculated for DBC and KNCS under the same conditions coincided to within 15%. That means that the complex formed at the interface has a stoichiometry of close to 1 1 [120],... 

Smaller values of necessitate the appHcation of voltages greater than those calculated from the Nemst equation to obtain a corresponding set of surface concentrations of electroactive species. These voltages are called overpotentials and iadicate chemically related difficulties with the electrolysis. In other words, electron exchange between the electrode and the electroactive species is impeded by the chemistry of the process itself. 

In principle, therefore, the surface concentration of an element can be calculated from the intensity of a particular photoelectron emission, according to Eq. (2.6). In practice, the method of relative sensitivity factors is in common use. If spectra were recorded from reference samples of pure elements A and B on the same spectrometer and the corresponding line intensities are and respectively, Eq. (2.6) can be written as... 

Thus, as for XP S, the average surface concentration Na can, in principle, be calculated by measurement of the Auger current, according to Eq. (2.13). Again, as in XPS, relative sensitivity factors are generally used. The Auger current for the same transition XYZ in a standard of pure A is measured under the same experimental conditions as in the analysis of A in M, whereupon the ratio of the atomic concentrations is... 

A very similar effect of the surface concentration on the conformation of adsorbed macromolecules was observed by Cohen Stuart et al. [25] who studied the diffusion of the polystyrene latex particles in aqueous solutions of PEO by photon-correlation spectroscopy. The thickness of the hydrodynamic layer 8 (nm) calculated from the loss of the particle diffusivity was low at low coverage but showed a steep increase as the adsorbed amount exceeded a certain threshold. Concretely, 8 increased from 40 to 170 nm when the surface concentration of PEO rose from 1.0 to 1.5 mg/m2. This character of the dependence is consistent with the calculations made by the authors [25] according to the theory developed by Scheutjens and Fleer [10,12] which predicts a similar variation of the hydrodynamic layer thickness of adsorbed polymer with coverage. The dominant contribution to this thickness comes from long tails which extend far into the solution. 

First, the amplitude cj,(0,Of, is calculated by Eq. (91). Then, taking the Fourier inversion of the amplitude, the space-variable component of the surface concentration fluctuation is obtained,... 

The surface concentration of minority carriers can be calculated on the basis of the same formalism ... 

Van Langeveld (10) in his thesis first calculated the concentration in the first and the second surface layer of Che alloys and when he saw Che second layer differed only marginally from the bulk, he determined the surface concentration by AES, assuming that only the first layer is different from the bulk. In such cases the relevant equation is as follows ... 

In conclusion, one remark. It Is evident Chat Che calculations describing the ideal case are rather far from reality. Further, it should be noticed, that it is absolutely incorrect, to take as a measure of surface concentration the AES signals (eventually normalized) Chat is to put N] = 1. Even for Che signals most sensitive for the surface, N] - 0.5 It is equally incorrect to say (what is very popular in the literature) that the AES signals characterize the average concentration over the free pathlength X of the electrons monitored the contribution of the deeper layer decreases exponentially and not linearly with the distances from the surface (8). 

The surface atomic ratios (Cd/F, S/F and C(naflon)/F) calculated from the XPS peak areas are listed In Table 1. The results Indicate that the cublc-CdS film has a higher surface concentration of CdS than the hexagonal film. In both, the C(ls)/F(ls) ratio Is similar to Naflon Itself. 

Equations (4.11) and (4.12) remain valid for the calculation of surface concentrations when this value of the limiting current is used in them. 

When calculating the surface concentration of substance Red in Eq. (4.11), we must use the combined limiting CD of both substances. 

For a molecule characterised by a AH value of 40 k.I mol 1 and undergoing facile surface diffusion, i.e. a A/ dir value close to zero, then each molecule will visit, during its surface lifetime (10 r s), approximately 107 surface sites. Since the surface concentration a is given by a = NtSUIf, then for a AH value of 40 kJ mol-1 and zsurf= 10-6 s at 295 K, the value of a is 109 molecules cm-2. These model calculations are illustrative but it is obvious that no conventional spectroscopic method is available that could monitor molecules present at a concentration 10-6 monolayers. These molecules may, however, contribute, if highly reactive, to the mechanism of a heterogeneously catalysed reaction we shall return to this important concept in discussing the role of transient states in catalytic reactions. 

Figure 2.6 Variation of the concentration of surface species calculated from the differential equations describing the model for ammonia oxidation.45 Efficient low-energy pathways to products are available through the participation of surface transients present at immeasurably low concentrations under reaction conditions. The NH3 surface concentration is 10 6 ML. (Reproduced from Ref. 45).

Phenyl iodide chemisorbs dissociatively at a Cu(110) surface at 295 K with structural information being obtained from STM and chemical information from XPS.28 At low exposures (6 L), the surface concentrations of carbon and iodine species, calculated from the intensities of the C(ls) and I(3d) spectra, were in the expected 6 1 ratio and the iodine concentration 5.1 x 1014cm 2. With further exposure, the iodine concentration increased and reached a maximum value of 5.5 x 1014cm-2 after an exposure of 1200L. This was... 

Size-selected palladium atoms were deposited on an in. sv /M-prepared MgO(lOO) thin film at 90 K the palladium surface concentration was about 1% of a monolayer. Comparison of ab initio calculations and FTIR studies of CO adsorption provided evidence for single Pd atoms bond to F centres of the MgO support with two CO molecules attached to each palladium atom.24... 

The amounts oi adsorption of the polymer on latex and silica particles were measured as follows. Three milliliters of the polymer solution containing a known concentration was introduced into an adsorption tube(lO ml volume) which contained 2 ml of latex (C = l+.O wt %) and silica(C = 2.0 wt %) suspensions. After being rotated(l0 rpm) end-over-end for 1 hr in a water bath at a constant temperature, the colloid particles were separated from the solution by centrifugation(25000 G, 30 min.) under a controlled temperature. The polymer concentration that remained in the supernatant was measured colorimetrically, using sulfuric acid and phenol for the cellulose derivatives(12), and potassium iodide, iodine and boric acid for PVA(13). From these measurements, the number of milligrams of adsorbed polymer per square meter of the adsorbent surface was calculated using a calibration curve. 

Inspection of the calculated surface coverage of the intermediate species finally reveals that the surface concentration of the species Rn is typically of the same order of magnitude as that of CH2, i.e., the Q species associated with CO adsorption/conversion. This implies that the coverage of catalytic sites by the synthesis products has a significant influence on CO conversion rate, which conflicts with the traditional approach of developing separate models for CO conversion and products distribution. 

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