Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2005-10-30
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.72.060501
Surface sensitive synchrotron-X-ray scattering studies reveal the distributions of monovalent ions next to highly charged interfaces. A lipid phosphate (dihexadecyl hydrogen-phosphate) was spread as a monolayer at the air-water interface, containing CsI at various concentrations. Using anomalous reflectivity off and at the $L_3$ Cs$^+$ resonance, we provide, for the first time, spatial counterion distributions (Cs$^+$) next to the negatively charged interface over a wide range of ionic concentrations. We argue that at low salt concentrations and for pure water the enhanced concentration of hydroniums H$_3$O$^+$ at the interface leads to proton-transfer back to the phosphate group by a high contact-potential, whereas high salt concentrations lower the contact-potential resulting in proton-release and increased surface charge-density. The experimental ionic distributions are in excellent agreement with a renormalized-surface-charge Poisson-Boltzmann theory without fitting parameters or additional assumptions.
Bu Wei
Travesset Alex
Vaknin David
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