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Introducing Chemical Functionalities to Microporous Surfaces: Strategies

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Introducing chemical functionalities to microporous surfaces is reviewed. Strategies based on the use of functional polymers/nanoparticles are discussed. Involving functional homopolymers and functionalized amphiphilic polymers for the chemical modifying of the surfaces emerging from the breath-figures self-assembly is addressed. The reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization enabled functionalization of the interfaces obtained with the breath-figures technique. Blending of polymers allows to combine functionalized and non-functionalized polymers which may be precisely placed in prescribed areas of the microporous structure. The use of metallic particles for introducing functionality into the porous films prepared by the breath-figures self-assembly is considered. Strategies for the functionalization of both/either inside and/or outside of the pores are treated in detail. Physical modification of the surfaces emerging from the breath-figures method, such as the cold plasma post-self-assembly treatment, are discussed and analyzed.

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  2. Engineering Faculty, Chemical Engineering Department, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel

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Rodríguez-Hernández, J., Bormashenko, E. (2020). Introducing Chemical Functionalities to Microporous Surfaces: Strategies. In: Breath Figures . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51136-4_5

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