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Science 12 January 1996:
Vol. 271. no. 5246, pp. 193 - 195
DOI: 10.1126/science.271.5246.193
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Fluorination of Diamond Surfaces by Irradiation of Perfluorinated Alkyl Iodides

V. S. Smentkowski and John T. Yates Jr. (1)

A facile method for chemically functionalizing diamond surfaces has been developed using x-ray irradiation of perfluoroalkyl iodide layers on the surface. Perfluoroalkyl radicals chemically bond to the diamond surface and can be thermally decomposed to produce strongly bound surface C-F bonds that are stable at high temperatures.


Surface Science Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.
(1) To whom correspondence should be addressed.

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