Abstract
Ion specific outcomes at aqueous interfaces remain among the most enigmatic phenomena in interfacial chemistry. Here, charged fused silica/water interfaces have been probed by homodyne- and heterodyne-detected (HD) second harmonic generation (SHG) spectroscopy at pH 7 and pH 5.8 and for concentrations of LiCl, NaCl, NaBr, NaI, KCl, RbCl, and CsCl ranging from 10 μM to several 100 mM. For ionic strengths around 0.1 mM to 1 mM, SHG intensities increase reversibly by up to 15% compared to the condition of zero added salt because of optical phase matching and electrical double layer. For ionic strengths above 1 mM, use of any combination of cations and anions produces decreases in SHG response by as much as 50%, trending with ion softness when compared to the condition of zero added salt. Gouy-Chapman model fits to homodyned SHG intensities for the alkali halides studied here show charge densities increase significantly with decreasing cation size. HD-SHG measurements indicate diffuse layer properties probed ...
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