The structure of sulfuric acid species adsorbed on a Pt(111) electrode has been successfully determined by using ultrahigh vacuum modeling tactics. This review concerns modeling of the electrochemical double layers in ultrahigh vacuum. An electrode potential change induces an interconversion between a bisulfate anion/hydronium cation coadsor-bate and a sulfuric acid neutral molecule on Pt(111). The solvation structure of the adsorbed ions indicates that single hydration water molecule per bisulfate anion/hydronium cation pair stabilizes the ion pair. The water molecules in the overlayers are subjected to a preferential orientation that is induced by the presence of the adsorbed anions in the first layer. These microscopic informations about the structure of an adsorbed electrolyte anion and water as a solvent would be indispensable to a true molecular level understanding of the electrochemical double layers and chemical reaction at the electrode surfaces.