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M A N Y ACADEMIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES, surface scientists as well as inorganic, organic, polymer, and analytical chemists have focused on the chemical modification of surfaces to alter the bulk properties of materials. Chemical bonding of substituent groups to surfaces has been used to achieve catalytic, electron transfer, surface wetting, corrosion resistance, photochemical, and polymer binding properties that bulk materials inherently do not possess. Rapid advances have been made in these areas as synthetic and analytical methodology has been successfully developed and exploited. The types of materials that have been chemically modified range from inorganic solids (such as semiconducting titanium dioxide and tin dioxide) through alumina, silica, and silicates (such as clays) as well as ordered material such as zirconium phosphates. In contrast, organic materials ranging from the semimetal graphite to polymers, such as insulating polystyrene and the unusual conductor polypyrrole, have been of major concern in numerous research laboratories throughout the world. Major concerns are the availability and limitations of the analytical techniques necessary to determine that surface modification has occurred, and the extent to which k has occurred. Herein, the state-of-the-art of the chemical modification of surfaces is presented by 17 chapters that also discuss the nature of the binding of the pendant groups to the surface and their frequency and spatial distributions. The principal focus in these chapters is on modification of materials for catalytic purposes and the modification of organic and inorganic electrode materials for electrocatalytic and photoelectrochemical applications. JOEL S. MILLER
Occidental Research Corporation Irvine, California February 1982
Miller; Chemically Modified Surfaces in Catalysis and Electrocatalysis ACS Symposium Series; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 1982.
