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Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Volume 75, 2024

Phenomenology of Intermediate Molecular Dynamics at Metal-Oxide Interfaces

Abstract

Reaction intermediates buried within a solid-liquid interface are difficult targets for physiochemical measurements. They are inherently molecular and locally dynamic, while their surroundings are extended by a periodic lattice on one side and the solvent dielectric on the other. Challenges compound on a metal-oxide surface of varied sites and especially so at its aqueous interface of many prominent reactions. Recently, phenomenological theory coupled with optical spectroscopy has become a more prominent tool for isolating the intermediates and their molecular dynamics. The following article reviews three examples of the SrTiO-aqueous interface subject to the oxygen evolution from water: reaction-dependent component analyses of time-resolved intermediates, a Fano resonance of a mode at the metal-oxide–water interface, and reaction isotherms of metastable intermediates. The phenomenology uses parameters to encase what is unknown at a microscopic level to then circumscribe the clear and macroscopically tuned trends seen in the spectroscopic data.

Keyword(s): metal-oxide surface, molecular dynamics, oxygen evolution reaction, solid-liquid interface, time-resolved optical spectroscopy
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2024-06-28
2025-03-15
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Phenomenology of Intermediate Molecular Dynamics at Metal-Oxide Interfaces
Annual Review of Physical Chemistry 75, 457 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-physchem-062123-022921
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