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Spiral Adsorbate Structures on Monoatomic Nanowire Electrodes
Author(s) -
Frank Stefan,
Hartnig Christoph,
Groß Axel,
Schmickler Wolfgang
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
chemphyschem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.016
H-Index - 140
eISSN - 1439-7641
pISSN - 1439-4235
DOI - 10.1002/cphc.200700822
Subject(s) - monatomic gas , steric effects , adsorption , chemical physics , spiral (railway) , electrode , nanowire , aqueous solution , chemistry , molecular dynamics , nanostructure , materials science , nanotechnology , computational chemistry , stereochemistry , organic chemistry , mathematical analysis , mathematics
Salty strand: Molecular dynamics simulations suggest that a monoatomic silver wire, immersed in an aqueous solution of NaCl, is covered by a monoatomic salt with spiral structure (see picture). This behaviour is in striking contrast to that of a plane silver electrode, on which Na + does not adsorb. The difference is caused mainly by steric effects.