Book description
Diazonium compounds are employed as a new class of coupling agents to
link polymers, biomacromolecules, and other species (e. g. metallic
nanoparticles) to the surface of materials. The resulting high
performance materials show improved chemical and physical properties and
find widespread applications. The advantage of aryl diazonium salts
compared to other surface modifiers lies in their ease of preparation,
rapid (electro)reduction, large choice of reactive functional groups,
and strong aryl-surface covalent bonding.
This unique book summarizes the current knowledge of the surface and
interface chemistry of aryl diazonium salts. It covers fundamental
aspects of diazonium chemistry together with theoretical calculations of
surface-molecule bonding, analytical methods used for the
characterization of aryl layers, as well as important applications in
the field of electrochemistry, nanotechnology, biosensors, polymer
coatings and materials science. Furthermore, information on other
surface modifiers (amines, silanes, hydrazines, iodonium salts) is
included. This collection of 14 self-contained chapters constitutes a
valuable book for PhD students, academics and industrial researchers
working on this hot topic.
Mohamed M. Chehimi is Research Director at the National Center for
Scientific Research (CNRS) in France and the leader of the Surface &
Interface research group at ITODYS Laboratory of the University Paris
Diderot, where he obtained his PhD in physical organic chemistry in 1988
and finished his Habilitation in 1995. He has authored over 200
scientific publications and has received the Honorary Medal from the
Polymer Institute (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia) for long term
and efficient international cooperation on surface and interface aspects
of nanocomposites in 2008. His main research interests are aryl
diazonium coupling agents, reactive and functional ultrathin polymer
films via surface polymerization or "click" chemistry,
carbon/polymer composites for the uptake of heavy metals, molecularly
imprinted polymer-based sensors, clay/polymer nanocomposites and films,
powders, latex particles, and nanocomposites of conductive polypyrrole.
