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Soft Lithographic Functionalization and Patterning Oxide-free Silicon and Germanium
Published on: December 16, 2011
Functional monolayers on oxide-free silicon surfaces via thiol-ene click chemistry
Mabel A Caipa Campos1, Jos M J Paulusse, Han Zuilhof
1Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Wageningen University and Research Center, Dreijenplein 8, 6703 HB, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|June 24, 2010
Abstract:
Thiol-ene click chemistry was used for the attachment of a variety of functional molecules onto oxide-free Si(111) surfaces using very mild conditions; the efficient nature of this coupling strategy allowed for successful light-induced micropatterning and thus provides a novel route towards biofunctional electronics.
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