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Grain boundary corrosion of the surface of annealed thin layers of gold by OH· radicals

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Annealed thin layers of gold with large mono-crystalline areas were treated with OH· radicals generated in an electrochemical Fenton reaction. The morphological changes observed with ex situ atomic force microscopy in non-contact mode and grazing incidence X-ray diffractometry show that the grain boundaries, and generally the non-{111} planes, are the loci of highest reactivity, i.e., the places where the gold dissolution is much faster than on the {111} planes.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are very thankful to Professor Stephen Fletcher, Loughborough University, UK, for a detailed discussion of the results and especially for raising the question of line tension. F.S. and U.H. acknowledge the funding of the AFM instrumentation by the European Regional Development Fund (EFRE). G.S. acknowledges support by a fellowship of the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald. D.D. acknowledges support by CAPES Brazil and DAAD.

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  1. Institute for Biochemistry, University Greifswald, Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 4, 17489, Greifswald, Germany

    Ulrich Hasse, Gustav Sievers & Fritz Scholz

  2. Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology e.V. (INP Greifswald), Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 2, 17489, Greifswald, Germany

    Katja Fricke

  3. Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, C. P. 5051, 97105-970, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil

    Daiane Dias

  4. Institute of Physics, University Greifswald, Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 6, 17489, Greifswald, Germany

    Harm Wulff

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Dedicated to Dr. Nina Fjodorovna Zakharchuk on the occasion of her 75th birthday.

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Hasse, U., Fricke, K., Dias, D. et al. Grain boundary corrosion of the surface of annealed thin layers of gold by OH· radicals. J Solid State Electrochem 16, 2383–2389 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10008-012-1756-x

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