In the past two decades, porous silicon (PSi) has attracted increasing attention for its
potential biomedical applications. With its controllable geometry, tunable nanoporous …

The modification of surfaces with self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) containing multiple
different molecules, or containing molecules with multiple different functional components, or …

Porous Si exhibits a number of properties that make it an attractive material for controlled
drug delivery applications: The electrochemical synthesis allows construction of tailored …

Infrared spectroscopy is used to investigate the transformation of carboxyl-terminated alkyl
chains immobilized on a surface into succinimidyl ester-terminated chains by reaction with …

Infrared spectroscopy was applied to investigate the well-known EDC/NHS (N-ethyl-N′-(3-
(dimethylamino) propyl) carbodiimide/N-hydroxysuccinimide) activation details of poly …

During the last few years, a number of interesting drug delivery applications of mesoporous
materials have been demonstrated. Mesoporous silicon has many important properties …

Organic functionalization of non-oxidized silicon surfaces, while allowing for robust chemical
passivation of the inorganic substrate, is intended and expected to broaden the chemical …

In this article, we report the functionalization of alkyne-terminated alkyl monolayers on Si
(100) using “click” chemistry, specifically, the Cu (I)-catalyzed Huisgen 1, 3-dipolar …

The controlled manipulation of small volumes of liquids is a challenging problem in
microfluidics,,,, and it is a key requirement for many high-throughput analyses and …

The use of porous silicon (PS) for biosensing applications is now emerging as it offers
desired properties such as better surface-volume ratio, tunable pore size, ease of …