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Cover Picture: Potential‐Dependent Adlayer Structure and Dynamics at the Ionic Liquid/Au(111) Interface: A Molecular‐Scale In Situ Video‐STM Study (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 20/2015)
Author(s) -
Wen Rui,
Rahn Björn,
Magnussen Olaf M.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201502798
Subject(s) - ionic liquid , scanning tunneling microscope , zigzag , chemical physics , chemistry , molecular dynamics , crystallography , ionic bonding , nanotechnology , materials science , ion , computational chemistry , organic chemistry , geometry , catalysis , mathematics
Shrouded in mystery , the interface structure of ionic liquids is unclear despite their popularity for electrochemical applications. In their Communication on page 6062 ff., O. M. Magnussen et al. address the molecular arrangement and sub‐second dynamics of these iconic compounds on gold electrodes by high‐speed tunneling microscopy. With decreasing potential, distinct transitions in the structure and surface mobility of the innermost layer of 1‐butyl‐1‐methylpyrrolidinium cations are found.