New method for TiO2 covalent-ionic functionalization with different molecules for induced properties

Abstract

A new efficient method for TiO2 fucntionalization with different molecules is presented in this paper. The method is based on TiO2 functionalization with lysine, followed by reaction between amino group from lysine and a functional group from another molecule. In this case the reaction was performed with crown ether using cyanuric chloride as spacer. An infra red spectroscopy study was performed in order to characterize the synthesized molecules.