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Clicking ferrocene to halogenated boron-doped diamond surfaces

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The halogenated boron-doped diamond (BDD) surfaces were reacted with sodium azide through a nucleophilic substitution reaction. The resulting azide-terminated BDD surfaces were used to trigger the “click” reaction. Because of the attractive electrochemical properties of ferrocene-containing molecules, such as fast electron transfer rates, reversible redox activities, and favorable redox potentials, we show that ferrocene derivatives can be grafted onto non-oxidized diamond surfaces by “click chemistry”. These redox-active ferrocene-containing layers on a BDD surface, because of their ability to store and release charges reversibly, have the potential to be used as hybrid molecular/semiconductor memory devices.

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The halogenated boron-doped diamond surfaces were reacted with sodium azide through a nucleophilic substitution reaction. The resulting azide-terminated boron-doped diamond surfaces (N3-BDD) were used to trigger the “click” reaction. We show here that ferrocene derivatives can be grafted onto non-oxidized diamond surfaces by “click chemistry”. These redox-active ferrocene-containing layers on a boron-doped diamond (BDD) surface, because of their ability to store and release charges reversibly, have the potential to be used as hybrid molecular/semiconductor memory devices.

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The National Nature Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51002090 and 50972078) and the Outstanding Young Scientist Research Award Fund of Shandong Province (No. BS2010CL028) were gratefully acknowledged for financial support.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Liquid Structure and Heredity of Materials, Ministry of Education, Shandong University, Jinan, 250061, China

    Mei Wang & Mu-Sen Li

  2. Institute of Interdisciplinary Research (IRI, USR-CNRS 3078) and Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology (IEMN, UMR-CNRS 8520), Cite Scientifique, Avenue Poincare-BP 60069, 59652, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France

    Sabine Szunerits & Rabah Boukherroub

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Wang, M., Szunerits, S., Boukherroub, R. et al. Clicking ferrocene to halogenated boron-doped diamond surfaces. Rare Met. 32, 100–104 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12598-013-0014-4

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