TY - JOUR AU - Ibach, H. AU - Schmickler, W. TI - The Step Line Tension on a Metal Electrode JO - Physical review letters VL - 91 SN - 0031-9007 CY - College Park, Md. PB - APS M1 - PreJuSER-32121 SP - 016106 PY - 2003 N1 - Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012 AB - The step line tension in electrochemical systems differs conceptually from the line tension on metals in the vacuum because it refers to different boundary conditions. A procedure is established for calculating the electrochemical line tension and is applied to a novel model of the interface comprising both a stepped metal electrode and an electrolyte solution. To first order, the potential dependence of the line tension is governed by the energy of the step dipole in the electric field of the space charge in the solution. KW - J (WoSType) LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000183915400041 DO - DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.016106 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/32121 ER -