The organic-metal interface is ubiquitous in a wide variety of natural environments and industrial applications. As a result, the interfacial chemistry has been studied for many decades. Specifically, the surfactant-metal interfaces play an important role in the prevention of metallic corrosion where surface active corrosion inhibitors are often used as a prevention method. Development of a spectroscopic method based on vibrational sum frequency generation, specifically for metal interfaces, is carried out with the goal of elucidating the surface structure of these molecules. The contribution to the signalarising from the metal substrate often plays a crucial role in the quantitative analysis of spectra. By adopting a phase-resolved detection scheme, the polar orientation of the organic molecule adsorbed on metal surfaces is experimentally obtained. Furthermore,the development of a novel acquisition scheme is demonstrated where the incident angle is scanned while simultaneously measuring the magnitude and phase of the nonlinear response. This enables the separation of all contributions to the nonlinear susceptibility tensor governing the response. Such an approach is especially useful when the conventional nonlinear vibrational technique is inaccessible in beam polarizations where the infrared field is perpendicular to the plane of incidence, due to the infrared surface selection rule of metals. Finally, this approach is used to examine the structure of a surfactant on iron surfaces. / Graduate / 2022-09-08
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uvic.ca/oai:dspace.library.uvic.ca:1828/13393 |
| Date | 15 September 2021 |
| Creators | Yang, Wei-Chen |
| Contributors | Hore, Dennis Kumar |
| Source Sets | University of Victoria |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | Available to the World Wide Web |
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