Bromide adsorption on Pt (111) is investigated by means of cyclic voltammetry and CO displacement experiments at different pH values. In acidic pH bromide adsorption is strongly overlapped with hydrogen desorption process. However, as the pH increases, hydrogen adsorption process displaces towards negative potentials while bromide adsorption remains nearly in the same potential region. In consequence, both processes decouple at higher pH values. The structural transition from Pt(111)-(1×1) to Pt(111)(3×3)-4Br is pH independent, in the SHE scale, and not observed for pH > 9.1.
Values of pztc are extracted from the combination of voltammetric and CO displacedcharges. An alternative approach to obtain charge curves is based on the coincidence of the curves the structural transition characteristic of the bromide adlayer completion.Pztc values obtained from different approaches with and without bromide are compared and their dependence on pH discussed. A thermodynamic analysis is carried out to obtain hydrogen Gibbs excess and charge number from the Esin Markov analysis.or "commensurate" depending on what type of interaction is stronger, as pointed out by Lucas et al. 15 On the one hand, if the interaction between nearby adatoms is stronger, the structural adlayer will be "incommensurate". On the other hand, if the adatomsubstrate interaction is stronger, then structural adlayer will be "commensurate".Bromide adsorption on Pt(111) was subject of investigation by Hubbard's group [16][17][18] providing precious information about the characterization of the formed adlayers.UHV measurements by LEED and Auger spectroscopy were employed to characterize the adlayer, and these works opened the way for further similar investigations. 3,19-22 The Pt(111)-Br ads adlayer was also characterized by STM 3,23 and surface X-ray scattering. 19 The bromide adlayers can be formed either from bromide solutions or bromide vapors. 3 A structural transition at 0.25 V vs. RHE in 0.1 M HClO 4 was observed. 3,18,23 It was first proposed that this feature corresponds to the change from a Pt(111)-(3×3)-4Br adlattice at high potentials to a Pt(111)-(4×4)-7Br adlattice at low potentials, 18 but Itaya et al. observed an incommensurate Pt(111)-(1×1) structure instead of Pt(111)-(4×4)-7Br. 23 Independently of the technique used for the characterization of the Pt(111)-Br ads adlayer, it was shown that the Pt(111)-(3×3)-4Br structure is dense and the bromine adatoms are arranged in a closed-packed hexagonal layer, where the Br-Br distance is close to van der Waals diameter of bromine. They pointed out also that these adlayers are ordered preferentially along the directions of the substrate densest rows. 3,[16][17][18]24 Lucas et al. 19 proposed similar observations, although in these studies they observed that the (3×3) adlayer structure was incommensurate, whereas Orts et al. 3 proposed it as commensurate.In the present work, the knowledge about bromide adsorption on Pt(111) is extended by performing cyclic voltammetry and CO displacement experiments...