Photochemical Functionalization of Diamond Films

Abstract

We report a new scheme for attachment of functionalized organic molecules to polycrystalline diamond films. In this scheme, ultraviolet light is used to cause a local reaction between a hydrogen-terminated diamond surface and organic molecules present as a thin overlayer liquid film. Comparison of functionalized alkenes and alkanes shows that alkenes attach more efficiently. By attaching organic molecules with suitable protecting groups and then deprotecting after attachment to the surface, it is possible to prepare diamond surfaces terminated with carboxylic acid groups or with primary amine groups. These functional groups may serve as an attractive starting point for further chemical modification of diamond surfaces.

Diamond‐based DNA sensors: surface functionalization and read‐out strategies

“…Organic linker molecules attached to diamond surfaces UV illumination cannot only be used for the Cl-termination of diamond [41,42]: various alkenes can be introduced onto the diamond surface via UV irradiation of H-terminated diamond as well [53], by covering the surface with liquid films of the appropriate alkenes; this technique was used to prepare diamond surfaces terminated with carboxyl and amino groups. This reaction is similar to the introduction of alkenes on H-terminated silicon surfaces, where the reaction can be induced thermally, or by visible (VIS) or UV light [54][55][56], which allows photo-patterning [57].…”

Luminescent nanodiamonds for biomedical applications

“…Acid treatments: Hydrogen plasma treatment (Thoms et al 1994;Strother et al 2002;Knickerbocker et al 2003) -Nitric and sulphuric acid (Kong et al 2005a;Huang and Chang 2004;Liu et al 2008;Chao et al 2007;Ushizawa et al 2002) Annealing in hydrogen gas (Härtl et al 2004;Christiaens et al 2006;Saini et al 2008) -Nitric acid Huang et al 2008;Sushchev et al 2008;Mitev et al 2007) Water vapour treatment (Ando et al 1996a) -Hydrochloric acid (Kossovsky et al 1995;Mitev et al 2007) Borane (BH3) (Krüger et al 2006;Neugart et al 2007;Liang et al 2009;Zhang et al 2009b) -Perchloric acid (Xu et al 2005) -Potassium dichromate and sulphuric acid (Mitev et al 2007) -Sulfuric acid and potassium permanganate (Xu et al 2005) Annealing in:…”

“…-apoobelin ) -aflatoxin B1 (AfB1) ) -DNA (Fu et al 2007) -luciferase Puzyr' et al 2004) -Alpha-bungarotoxin (Liu et al 2008 (Miller and Brown 1996;Knickerbocker et al 2003;Lu et al 2004;Strother et al 2002;Yang et al 2002;Takahashi et al 2003;Yeap et al 2008;Zhang et al 2009b;Zheng et al 2009;Chang et al 2010) (Strother et al 2002;Takahashi et al 2003;Ida et al 2003;Tsubota et al 2003;Härtl et al 2004;Christiaens et al 2006;Chang et al 2010) (Liu et al 2004;Ando et al 1996b;Khabashesku et al 2005;Ando et al 1996a;Ando et al 1993) (Ando et al 1996a;Ikeda et al 1998;Takahashi et al 2003;Miller and Brown 1996) Silanes Aryl Alkyl Amino (Zhang et al 2009b;Liang et al 2009;Krüger et al 2006;Yeap et al 2008 Zheng et al 2009) choice of biological buffer systems or media is also important, since both foetal bovine serum and phosphate buffered saline, two common biological buffer systems, tend to cause re-aggregation (Neugart et al 2007;Vaijayanthimala et al 2009). Despite the challenges involved in preparing and maintaining de-aggregated nanodiamonds, positive results strongly support their use in biological applications.…”

Nanoindentation as a Tool to Clarify the Mechanism Causing Variable Stiffness of a Silane Layer on Diamond

“…An H-terminated surface can be directly functionalized, either photochemically by UV irradiation in halogen gases or alkenes [15][16][17], or chemically by thermal decomposition of benzoyl peroxide, activated by argon gas [18], or by electrochemical diazonium salts reduction in an inert atmosphere [19,20]. In contrast, an O-terminated surface can be chemically modified by silanization or by esterification [4], or, as recently reported, aminated by NH3-plazma treatment [1].…”