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Study of Short Peptide Adsorption on Solution Dispersed Inorganic Nanoparticles Using Depletion Method
Published on: April 11, 2020
Quantitative measurements of adsorbate-adsorbate interactions at solid-liquid interfaces
A Taranovskyy1, T Tansel, O M Magnussen
1Institut für Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik, Universität Kiel, Olshausenstr. 40, 24098 Kiel, Germany.
Abstract:
The interactions between adsorbates at a solid-liquid interface were studied by video-rate STM for the case of sulfur on Cu(100) electrode surfaces in HCl solution. Quantitative data were obtained by analyzing the S(ad) dimer dynamics within the surrounding c(2 x 2)-Cl adlattice as well as the adsorbate configurations. The interactions are repulsive for S(ad) separated by one or two lattice spacings and attractive at a separation of square root of 2 with energies comparable to adsorbates at the solid-vacuum interface. The S(ad) diffusion barriers are significantly reduced in the vicinity of a neighboring adsorbate.
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