Surface oxidation of chalcocite (Cu2S) under aqueous (pH = 2–11) …
We characterized the surface oxidation layer (~50 Å) of chalcocite reacted with air-saturated aqueous solutions at pH = 2–11 and with the ambient atmosphere. Copper L -edge and O K -edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy probes the unoccupied electronic states in the conduction band of the surface alteration phase that, in turn, enables us to identify the …