Using Ambient Pressure XPS to Probe the Solid/Gas and Solid/Liquid Interface Under In Situ and Operando Conditions
Ethan Crumlin a b
a Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA, United States
b Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MATSUS)
Proceedings of nanoGe Spring Meeting 2022 (NSM22)
#AdvMatSyn22. Advanced Materials Synthesis, Characterization, and Theory: for the Green Energy Leap
Online, Spain, 2022 March 7th - 11th
Organizer: Francesca Toma
Invited Speaker, Ethan Crumlin, presentation 211
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.nsm.2022.211
Publication date: 7th February 2022

Interfaces play an essential role in nearly all aspects of life and are critical for electrochemistry. Electrochemical systems ranging from high-temperature solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) to batteries to capacitors have a wide range of important interfaces between solids, liquids, and gases which play a pivotal role in how energy is stored, transferred, and/or converted. This talk will focus on our use of ambient pressure XPS (APXPS) to directly probe the solid/gas and solid/liquid electrochemical interface. APXPS is a photon-in/electron-out process that can provide both atomic concentration and chemical-specific information at pressures greater than 20 Torr. Using synchrotron X-rays at Lawrence Berkeley Nation Laboratory, the Advanced Light Source has several beamlines dedicated to APXPS endstations that are outfitted with various in situ/operando features such as heating to temperatures > 500 °C, pressures greater than 20 Torr to support solid/liquid experiments and electrical leads to support applying electrical potentials support the ability to collect XPS data of actual electrochemical devices while it's operating in near ambient pressures. This talk will introduce APXPS and provide several solid/gas and solid/liquid interface electrochemistry examples using in situ and operando APXPS including the probing a Pt metal electrode undergoing a water-splitting reaction to generate oxygen[1], utilization of theory and experiment to understand CO2’s interaction with Cu and Ag metal surfaces [2], [3], [4], and the ability to probe the electrochemical double layer (EDL) [5]. Gaining new insight to guide the design and control of future electrochemical interfaces.

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