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Srikanth Nayak1, Raju R Kumal1, Seung Eun Lee1
1Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States.
Abstract:
We study the adsorption of trivalent neodymium on floating arachidic acid films at the air-water interface by two complementary surface specific probes, sum frequency generation spectroscopy and X-ray fluorescence near total reflection. In the absence of background ions, neodymium ions compensate for the surface charge of the arachidic acid film at a bulk concentration of 50 μM without any charge reversal. Increasing the bulk concentration to 1 mM does not change the neodymium surface coverage but affects the interfacial water structure significantly. In the presence of a high concentration of NaCl, there is overcharging at 1 mM Nd3+, i.e., 30% more Nd3+ than needed to compensate for the surface charge. These results show that the total coverage of neodymium ions is not enough to describe the complete picture at the interface, and interfacial water and ion coverage needs to be considered together to understand more complex ion adsorption and transport processes.
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