RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Effect of chloride and pH on the electrochemical surface oxidation enhanced Raman scattering A1 Perales Rondon, Juan Víctor A1 Hernández Muñoz, Sheila A1 Heras Vidaurre, Aránzazu A1 Colina Santamaría, Álvaro K1 Silver K1 Spectroelectrochemistry K1 Raman enhancement K1 Nanostructures K1 Química analítica K1 Chemistry, Analytic AB In the present work, electrochemical surface oxidation enhanced Raman scattering (EC-SOERS) was studied using time resolved Raman spectroelectrochemistry. This multiresponse technique allows us to obtain dynamic information about the processes taking place during the electrochemical oxidation of a silver substrate. EC-SOERS is particularly found in specific electrolytic conditions, namely, HClO4 0.1 M + KCl 5·10−3 M, and has a clear dependence on chloride concentration and pH, being the optimum values between 5·10−3 M and 1·10−2 M for chloride and pH = 1. In light of the results of this study, the appearance of the phenomenon is related to the modification of the electrode surface, yielding Ag/AgCl cubes as plasmonic structures, and the stability of such structures at low pH values. The results presented in this work could shed more light into the intricate EC-SOERS phenomenon which can be summarized as the increase of the Raman signal for a Raman probe molecule exclusively during the electrochemical oxidation of silver electrodes. PB Elsevier SN 0169-4332 YR 2019 FD 2019-04 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/5335 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/5335 LA eng NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Grants CTQ2017-83935-R-AEI/FEDERUE) and Junta de Castilla y León (Grant BU033-U16). J.V.P-R. thanks JCyL for his postdoctoral fellowship (Grant BU033-U16) DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos RD 21-nov-2024