Mohamed M. Chehimi & Jean Pinson 
Aryl Diazonium Salts and Related Compounds 
Surface Chemistry and Applications

This volume provides the latest developments in the field of surface science and technology based on diazonium coupling agents as well as their precursors (e.g. aromatic amines). It presents new concepts of surface chemistry of diazonium salts and discusses their novel and challenging applications. The latest advances on surface modification with diazonium salts are discussed and various promising alternative surface modifiers such as iodonium salts are examined. This book demonstrates the universality of diazonium salts in the surface treatment of classical and emergent materials and it will be a great tool for researcher and graduates working in this field.

Table of Content

Principle, general features and scope of the reaction, recent advances, future prospects.- Structures, stability, and safety of diazonium salts.- Kinetics and mechanisms of aryldiazonium ions in aqueous solutions.- Iodonium salts as reagents for surface modification: from preparation to reactivity in surface-assisted transformations.- Control of the aryl layer growth.- Grafting of aryl radicals onto surfaces – a DFT study.- Modification of sp² carbon allotropes with diazonium salts – Focus on carbon nanotubes functionalization.- Covalent modification of graphite and graphene using diazonium chemistry.- Aryldiazonium Tetrachloroaurate(III) Salts: Synthesis, Structure, and Fundamental Applications.- Modification and uses of synthetic and biobased polymeric materials.- Surface modification of plasmonic nanomaterials with aryl diazonium salts.- Diazonium electroreduction and molecular electronics.- Modification of surfaces with calix[4]arene diazonium salts.- Diazonium salts and related compounds for biomedical applications.- On the use of diazonium salts in the design of catalytic hybrid materials and coatings.- Aryldiazonium Salts as Photoinitiators for Cationic and Free Radical Polymerizations.- Polymer surface science and adhesion using diazonium chemistry.- Diazonium-modification of plasmonic surfaces formed by laser ablation.- Diazonium salts and the related compounds for the design of biosensors.- Reinforced polymers: the emerging role of diazonium modification of fillers.- Diazonium salts for the preparation of carbon composites with a focus on applications of carbon fibers.- Diazonium salts and related compounds in electrochemical energy storage and conversion.- Recent patents and industrial applications.

About the author

Mohamed M. Chehimi is Senior Research at French CNRS. He obtained a Ph D in physical organic chemistry at the University Paris Diderot in 1988 and joined CNRS in 1989 for a permanent researcher position. His main research topics concern (i) the design of reactive and functional polymer and nanocomposite coatings, and (ii) the valorization of agrowastes into nanoparticle-loaded biochar for environmental applications. He has spent time and efforts developing aryldiazonium salts as new coupling agents in materials science. The applications encompass adsorbents, sensors and actuators, reactive fillers, antibacterial surfaces, electronic devices and supported nanocatalysts. He is an expert on X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis of a broad range of materials including polymer thin films; polymer composites, nanomaterials and materials for sensor devices. Dr Chehimi has supervised over 25 Ph D theses and collaborated with academic researchers from 20 countries. He has350+ research papers, 23 book chapters and 3 patents to his credit. He is the editor of four books and guest-edited six themed issues. He serves as Executive Editor-in-Chief of Chemistry Africa (Springer Nature) and Associate Editor of Surfaces (MDPI).
Jean Pinson is Emeritus Professor at Université de Paris. He graduated in 1963 from Ecole Nationale des Industries Chimiques (Nancy, France). He obtained his Ph D in 1969 from Université de Paris and spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow at University of Oklahoma. He became full professor in 1991. From 2004 on, he spent five years as a scientist at Alchimer (now Aveni) a start-up dedicated to microelectronics. His interests include electrochemistry in particular molecular organic chemistry, radical chemistry (SRN1 reactions) and surface chemistry. In 1992 he published the grafting of diazonium salts on surfaces a method now of wide use. He has published more than 190 papers, 9 patents, 12 reviews and book chapters and edited 3 books.
Fatima Mousli has been awarded her Ph D in Physico-Chemistry of Materials from the University of Mouloud Mammeri, Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria. This work was conducted within the framework of an international collaboration with ITODYS Lab, Université de Paris (Paris, France). Fatima Mousli has devoted her research to the development of new titania and titania-based heterostructure/conductive polymer nanocomposite and functional hybrid materials based on cotton fabrics for heterogeneous catalysis. One important aspect of her research is focused on the surface/interface chemistry of diazonium salts in view of tightly attaching conductive polymers to metal oxides to surfaces and therefore improving (photo)catalytic performances of titania-based materials. Fatima Mousli has published a series of articles on catalytic nanocomposites and hybrid structures in international peer-reviewed journals and a book chapter on polymer surface modification. Shealso serves as a peer reviewer for international chemistry journals.