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Water Adsorption, Solvation, and Deliquescence of Potassium Bromide Thin Films on SiO2 Studied by Ambient-Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

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江鹏 (Jiang Peng)
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Xingyi Deng
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Hendrik Bluhm
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Miquel Salmerón *
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The adsorption of water on KBr thin films evaporated onto SiO2 was investigated as a function of relative humidity (RH) by ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. At 30% RH, adsorbed water reaches a coverage of approximately 1 ML (monolayer). As the humidity continues to increase, the coverage of water remains constant or increases very slowly until 60% RH, followed by a rapid increase. At low RHs, the Br/K ratio on a submonolayer-thick film drops to less than 0.1, as a result of loss of Br atoms in the film due to radiation damage. With increasing humidity, solvation increases ion mobility and gives rise to a partial recovery of the Br/K ratio. Above 60% RI-I, the increase of the Br/K ratio accelerates. Above the deliquescence point (85% RH), the thickness of the water layer continues to increase and reaches more than three layers near saturation. The enhancement of the Br/K ratio at this stage is roughly a factor of 2.3 on a 0.5 nm KBr film, indicating a strong preferential segregation of Br ions to the air-liquid interface of the thin saline solution on SiO2.
Keywords:
POLARIZATION FORCE MICROSCOPY
SALT-SOLUTIONS
POLAR SUNRISE
SEA-SALT
OZONE DESTRUCTION
ELECTRON-SPECTROSCOPY
MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS
AQUEOUS-SOLUTIONS
ALKALI-HALIDES
IN-SITU
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Journal of Physical Chemistry C
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