Structure of Electric Double Layer under Cationic Langmuir Monolayer: Charge Condensation Effect

02 engineering and technology 0210 nano-technology 01 natural sciences 0104 chemical sciences
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c00401 Publication Date: 2021-03-31T21:12:55Z
ABSTRACT
Langmuir monolayers consisting of mixtures of 1-hexadecanol (HD) and 1,2-dipalmitoyl-3-trimethylammonium-propane (DPTAP) (having quaternary amine headgroup) at different molar ratios were prepared to investigate the effect of the surface charge density on the structure of an electric double layer. The fatty alcohol molecules worked as passive spacers to widen the distance between the amine groups in the monolayer, to vary the surface charge density of the monolayer, and these mixture monolayer systems were probed by surface-sensitive sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy. A strong sum-frequency signal in the OH range for a pure DPTAP monolayer (with a surface charge density of ∼0.4 C/m2) hardly decreased as the surface charge density was reduced up to ∼0.12 C/m2 (1 e per 140 Å2) and afterward decreased monotonically as more HD occupied the monolayer. The Gouy-Chapman theory incorporating a charged-condensed layer in which the counterion concentration is limited by a close packing of the counterions could account for the above saturation behavior in the sum-frequency spectra.
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