Abstract
We demonstrate how small and rapid temperature perturbations (produced by the indirect laser-induced temperature jump (ILIT) technique) of solid metal electrode|electrolyte solution interfaces may be used to determine the potential of zero (total) charge (Epzc) and its temperature derivative (dEpzcdT) of Au(111) electrode surfaces modified by alkanethiol self-assembled monolayers in contact with high ionic strength (i.e., 1.0 M) aqueous electrolyte solutions. The Epzc’s measured for two different types of SAMs (made from either HS(CH2)n−1CH3 (5 ≤ n ≤ 12, Epzc = −(0.99 ± 0.12) V vs SSCE) or HS(CH2)nOH (3 ≤ n ≤ 16, Epzc = (0.46 ± 0.22) V vs SSCE)) are considerably different than those measured previously at much lower electrolyte solution ionic strengths. For mixed monolayers made from both HS(CH2)n−1CH3 and HS(CH2)nFc (where Fc refers to ferrocene), the difference in Epzc decreases as a function of the surface concentration of the Fc moiety (i.e., [Fc]), and it completely disappears at a surprisingly small...
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