Probing double layer structure at Au[BMIm]BF4 interface by molecular length-dependent SERS Stark effect》.pdf

Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry 751 (2015) 137–143 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry journal homepage: www.elsevi /locate/jelechem Probing double layer structure at Au/[BMIm]BF4 interface by molecular length-dependent SERS Stark effect Na Zhang, Xing-Rong Wang, Ya-Xian Yuan ⇑, Hui-Fang Wang, Min-Min Xu, Zhi-Gang Ren, Jian-Lin Yao ⇑, Ren-Ao Gu College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Material Science, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) played an important role in the electrochemistry because of the Received 10 April 2015 advantageous properties. Due to the different electrochemical behavior from the dilute solution, it was Received in revised form 29 May 2015 still remained a significant challenge to obtain the insight into the interfacial structure. Although the Accepted 30 May 2015 spectroelectrochemistry offered the rich spectroscopic information for obtaining the interfacial structure Available online 1 June 2015 at molecular level, the lack of the spatial information of those techniques at nano/subnanometer scale led the difficulties in the determination of the spatial structure of double layer. Here, the surface enhanced Keywords: Raman spectroscopy (SERS) Stark tuning rates of CN stretching frequency were employed to determ