In Situ and Real Time Characterization of Spontaneous Grafting of Aryldiazonium Salts at Carbon Surfaces

• Published in: Chemistry of materials Vol. 25; no. 7; pp. 1144 - 1152
• Main Authors: Jayasundara, Dilushan R, Cullen, Ronan J, Colavita, Paula E
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: American Chemical Society 09.04.2013
• Subjects: chemisorption; amorphous carbon; adsorption; QCM; diazonium

Aryldiazonium cations are widely used to covalently functionalize carbon substrates that display a wide range of composition, from 100% sp2 such as graphite or graphene to 100% sp3 such as diamond and nanodiamond. In this work we investigated the effect that changes in carbon composition have on ary...