TY - JOUR

T1 - A cell for the controllable thermal treatment and electrochemical characterisation of single crystal alloy electrodes

A1 - Bondarenko,Alexander S.

A1 - Stephens,Ifan E.L.

A1 - Chorkendorff,Ib

AU - Bondarenko,Alexander S.

AU - Stephens,Ifan E.L.

AU - Chorkendorff,Ib

PB - Elsevier Inc.

PY - 2012

Y1 - 2012

N2 - A new electrochemical cell is described which provides the opportunity to perform electrochemical experiments and apply a controllable thermal treatment without exposing the sample to the laboratory atmosphere. We report typical model experiments with Pt(111) single crystal electrodes which can be performed in this cell. These include preparation and basic voltammetric characterisation of Cu/Pt(111) near-surface and surface alloys where monolayer amounts of Cu are located in the 1st and 2nd layers, respectively. The cell can also be useful for “electrochemical atomic layer epitaxy” to assemble multilayers using repetitive underpotential deposition.

AB - A new electrochemical cell is described which provides the opportunity to perform electrochemical experiments and apply a controllable thermal treatment without exposing the sample to the laboratory atmosphere. We report typical model experiments with Pt(111) single crystal electrodes which can be performed in this cell. These include preparation and basic voltammetric characterisation of Cu/Pt(111) near-surface and surface alloys where monolayer amounts of Cu are located in the 1st and 2nd layers, respectively. The cell can also be useful for “electrochemical atomic layer epitaxy” to assemble multilayers using repetitive underpotential deposition.

KW - Single crystals

KW - Near-surface alloys

KW - Surface alloys

KW - Electrochemical cell

U2 - 10.1016/j.elecom.2012.06.030

DO - 10.1016/j.elecom.2012.06.030

JO - Electrochemistry Communications

JF - Electrochemistry Communications

SN - 1388-2481

VL - 23

SP - 33

EP - 36

ER -