The invention belongs to the
electrochemistry technical field and relates to an electrochemical
working electrode engraved with a
metal nano grating and a preparation method of the electrochemical
working electrode. At present, people's understanding of electrochemical reactions at the
molecular level is still very insufficient, they still face a tough challenge in obtaining intermediate products,and the configurations and orientations of chemical bonds in a reaction process. The
infrared vibration
spectroscopy is the most effective technique to acquire
molecular level information in chemicalanalysis, however,
infrared light is strongly attenuated in an
electrode and an
electrolyte, and as a result, it is difficult to measure an
infrared spectrum. According to the electrochemical workingelectrode engraved with the
metal nano grating provided by the invention, a
momentum is compensated by the
grating, so that incident infrared light can be coupled into surface plasmons which can be propagated on an interface and have a strong near-field enhancement effect, and therefore, the absorption of the infrared light by the
metal electrode and the
electrolyte can be offset, field strengthat the electrochemical interface can be enhanced considerably, and thus, the acquisition of a molecular
vibrational spectrum in an in-situ and real-
time reaction process on the electrochemical interface can be realized.