A microscopic model for the liquid metal-ionic solution interface

JEAN-PIERRE BADIALI; MARTIN LUC ROSINBERG; VERICAT FERNANDO; LESSER BLUM

JOURNAL OF ELECTROANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

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Lugar: [Lausanne]; Año: 1983 vol. 158 p. 253 - 267

0022-0728

A microscopic model for the metal-solution interface is presented which, for the first time, includes both a non-ideal treatment of the metal and a molecular model for the solution side. The metal is described by a jellium model including electron-ion pseudopotential. The solution is treated as a mixture of hard spheres with point dipoles (solvent molecules) and poin charges (ions). The statistical mechanics is solved using mean spherical approximation. Non a priori separatioin is introduced between compact and diffuse layers. A simplified version of the model is applied to the case of Hg-DMSO systems