SURFACE FUNCTIONALIZATION FOR SENSING OF VOLATILE ORGANIC CARBONYL COMPOUNDS

摘要

ABSTRACT SURFACE FUNCTIONALIZATION FOR SENSING OF VOLATILE ORGANIC CARBONYL COMPOUNDS The invention provides a method for surface functionalization of an oxide surface for the detection of volatile organic carbonyl compounds, such as semiochemicals. The method comprises selecting an oxide surface, reacting the oxide surface with various synthetic procedures on the solid support to get at least one anchor site having at least one or plurality of functional groups. The resulting functional groups on the solid support act as covalent receptors of specific semiochemical to the anchor sites in a reversible fashion.