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Two-dimensional models for an electrode with adsorption sites

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Through a new method, the following model is solved exactly in the framework of classical equilibrium statistical mechanics of two-dimensional Coulomb systems, for the special valueГ=2 of the coupling constant: the mobile charges of a one-component plasma are attracted by a line of equidistant sticky adsorption sites embedded in a background, the density of which varies in the direction orthogonal to the line. First the general expressions are given for the densities and correlation functions of nonadsorbed and adsorbed particles. Then these results are used to investigate two models of electrodes with localized adsorption: the externally charged hard wall and the impermeable polarized membrane. In each case the influence of the adsorption upon macroscopic features is studied: the potential drop across the interface, the contact theorem, and the Lippmann equation, which involves the surface free energy.

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  1. Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies, Laboratoire associé au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Paris-Sud, 91405, Orsay, France

    Françoise Cornu

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Cornu, F. Two-dimensional models for an electrode with adsorption sites. J Stat Phys 54, 681–706 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01019771

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