Surface Functionalization
of Alumina Ceramic Foams
with Organic Ligands

Comas, Horacio; Laporte, Vincent; Borcard, Françoise; Miéville, Pascal; Juillerat, Franziska Krauss; Caporini, Marc A.; Gonzenbach, Urs T.; Juillerat-Jeanneret, Lucienne; Gerber-Lemaire, Sandrine

doi:10.1021/am201638a.s001

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Surface Functionalization of Alumina Ceramic Foams with Organic Ligands

journal contribution

posted on 2012-02-22, 00:00 authored by Horacio Comas, Vincent Laporte, Françoise Borcard, Pascal Miéville, Franziska Krauss Juillerat, Marc A. Caporini, Urs T. Gonzenbach, Lucienne Juillerat-Jeanneret, Sandrine Gerber-Lemaire

Different anchoring groups have been studied with the aim of covalently binding organic linkers to the surface of alumina ceramic foams. The results suggested that a higher degree of functionalization was achieved with a pyrogallol derivative – as compared to its catechol analogue – based on the XPS analysis of the ceramic surface. The conjugation of organic ligands to the surface of these alumina materials was corroborated by DNP-MAS NMR measurements.