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J. Fleig, J. Jamnik:
"Response to the comment on "Work function changes of polarized electrodes on solid electrolytes";
Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 153 (2006), L17 - L18.

In his comment on our paper [J. Electrochem. Soc., 152, E138 (2005)], Metcalfe raised the question of how to deal with the electrostatic interaction of ions spilled over a metal surface from a solid electrolyte. In this answer we demonstrate that the suggestion of Metcalfe to add an excess term to the chemical potential µ leads to an inconsistency when Coulombic fields of adsorbed ions and counter charges have already been considered in a local electrostatic potential . An additional term in µ would thus correspond to a double counting of the same electrostatic interactions and has to be avoided.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1149/1.2208622

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