Hysteresis in the MD Simulations of Differential Capacitance at the Ionic Liquid-Au Interface.

J Phys Chem Lett

LAQV@REQUIMTE, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre s/n, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal.

Published: December 2020

In this Letter, we report the first observation of the capacitance-potential hysteresis at the ionic liquid | electrode interface in atomistic molecular dynamics simulations. While modeling the differential capacitance dependence on the potential scan direction, we detected two long-living types of interfacial structure for the BMImPF ionic liquid at specific charge densities of the gold Au(111) surface. These structures differ in how counterions overscreen the surface charge. The high barrier for the transition from one structure to another slows down the interfacial restructuring process and leads to the marked capacitance-potential hysteresis.

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