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The structure of the planar surface of colloidal solutions of amorphous 27-nm silica sol particles enriched with heavy K+, Rb+, and Cs+ alkali ions is studied by the methods of reflectometry and diffuse (nonspecular) scattering of synchrotron radiation. For liquid-phase systems, we have used a self-consistent approach that makes it possible to reconstruct from experimental data the electron density profiles perpendicular to the hydrosol surface, as well as the spectra of the height–height correlation function in the plane of the surface without using any a priori information about the near-surface structure. Analysis represented here shows that for high values of pH, alkali cations with a large radius and a surface concentration of (5 ± 1) × 1018 m–2 replace Na+ ions with a smaller radius. This result is in qualitative agreement with the dependence of the Kharkats–Ukstrup single-ion electrostatic free energy on the ion radius and in good quantitative agreement with the results obtained by other authors using the capillary-wave approach. The integrated value of the effective height of interface roughness (3.2 ± 0.5 Å) coincides to within the measuring error with the prediction of the capillary-wave theory; however, the experimental spectra of the height-to-height correlation function basically differ from the theoretical spectra in the range of low spatial frequencies ν < 10–3 nm–1. The approximation of the spectra by the sum of two K-correlation distributions indicates a transition from the natural roughness of the compact layer of alkali metal ions to the capillary roughness of the liquid surface in the correlation length range of about 1 μm. In our opinion, the aggregate of available data indicates the dispersion of this layer into 2D clusters (Wigner islands).
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The authors are grateful to H. Isern, T. Buslaps, and F. Russello (ESPF) for their help in preparing experiments and to H. Reichert, I.V. Kozhevnikov, and Yu.A. Ermakov for their keen interest and fruitful discussions of experimental results.
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Experiments at the ID31 station were performed under research projects SC-4246, SC-4461, and SC-4845 of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France. This study was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation under State assignment for the Institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The theoretical part of this work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 18-12-00108).
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Tikhonov, A.M., Asadchikov, V.E., Volkov, Y.O. et al. Analysis of the Silica Sol Surface Structure by X-Ray Scattering Method. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 132, 1–17 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063776120120110
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