Chemical modification of surfaces

拟议的研究计划侧重于化学修饰表面领域的新基础知识的发展。它将通过开发基于芳香族和脂肪族有机分子的氧化和还原的新方法，大大扩展我们目前在表面改性方面的努力。通过这些互补修饰，我们将有机会获得更多具有芳香和脂肪基团接枝和伴随不同性质的修饰表面，并将为几个新的潜在应用开辟道路。这些应用可以在不同的领域，如生物传感器，生物材料，化学传感器，分子电子学，电催化，腐蚀保护和能量转换和存储(例如。燃料电池、太阳能电池、电池和电化学电容器)系统。

The proposed research program focuses on the development of new basic knowledge in the area of chemically modified surfaces. It will significantly expand our current efforts on modification of surfaces by developing new approaches based on the oxidation and reduction of aromatic and aliphatic organic molecules. With these complementary modification procedures, we will have access to additional sets of modified surfaces having aromatic and aliphatic grafted groups and concomitant different properties and will open the way to several new potential applications. These applications could be in such diverse areas as in biosensors, biomaterials, chemical sensors, molecular electronics, electrocatalysis, corrosion protection and energy conversion and storage (eg. fuel cells, solar cells, batteries and electrochemical capacitors) systems.