TY  - JOUR
AU  - Seyffertitz, Malina
AU  - Stock, Sebastian
AU  - Rauscher, Max Valentin
AU  - Prehal, Christian
AU  - Haas, Sylvio
AU  - Porcar, Lionel
AU  - Paris, Oskar
TI  - Are SAXS and SANS suitable to extract information on the role of water for electric-double-layer formation at the carbon–aqueous-electrolyte interface?
JO  - Faraday discussions
VL  - 249
SN  - 1359-6640
CY  - Cambridge [u.a.]
PB  - Soc.
M1  - PUBDB-2023-06157
SP  - 363 - 380
PY  - 2023
AB  - This study reports on the applicability of X-ray transmission (XRT), small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS/WAXS) and small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) for investigating fundamental processes taking place in the working electrode of an electric double-layer capacitor with 1 M RbBr aqueous electrolyte at different applied potentials. XRT and incoherent neutron scattering are employed to determine global ion- and water-concentration changes and associated charge-balancing mechanisms. We showcase the suitability of SAXS and SANS, respectively, to get complementary information on local ion and solvent rearrangement in nanoconfinement, but also underscore the limitations of simple qualitative models, asking for more quantitative descriptions of water–water and ion–water interactions via detailed atomistic modelling approaches.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - 37795935
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:001075804100001
DO  - DOI:10.1039/D3FD00124E
UR  - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/596463
ER  -