Gibbs thermodynamics in the presence of charge transfer processes have been applied to characterize temperature effects on Pt(1 1 1) Pt(1 0 0) and Pt(1 1 0) electrodes in 0 1 M HClO4 solutions The present analysis allows the evaluation of the entropy of formation of the interphase for the three platinum basal planes which is found to be structure-sensitive In addition these results have been used to test the suitability of the more common approach to characterize temperature effects based on the application of a generalized isotherm Besides the comparison of both approaches allows the characterization of the different components involved in the entropy of hydrogen and OH adsorption namely the standard entropy of adsorption the entropy due to lateral interactions and the configurational entropy Finally the corn parison with statistical mechanical calculations demonstrates that adsorbed hydrogen on Pt(1 1 1) and Pt(1 0 0) is rather mobile while adsorbed OH is rather immobile Adsorbed hydrogen on Pt(1 1 0) exhibits an unexpected behavior since it appears to be rather immobile at low coverages but it becomes very mobile at near saturation coverages (C) 2010 Elsevier B V All rights reserved