Surface modification was achieved by silanization, and/or coating with non-toxic commercial dispersants (a lauric polysorbate and a block copolymer with pigment affinic groups, namely Tween 20 and Disperbyk 190) which were added after or during iron oxide nanoparticle synthesis.
To oxidize and create active moieties on the MWCNTs, the samples were exposed to UV light within the ozone chamber, followed by silanization using 3-glycidoxypropyltrimethoxy silane after the oxidized MWCNTs were reduced by lithium aluminum hydride.
Organosilanes combined with reactive end amino-group or epoxy-group were employed for the modification through silanization process.
Theoretical results indicated that silanization and nanoparticle loadings improved the fracture toughness of dental nanocomposites by a factor of 2 3 through a combination of enhanced interface toughness by silanization, crack deflection, as well as crack bridging.
The PGMA microspheres and their hydrolyzed analogs derived from poly(2,3-dihydroxypropyl methacrylate) (PDHPMA) were coated by silanization with tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) and 3-aminopropyl triethoxysilanee (APTES), respectively.
Aniline electropolymerization produced a coating with a textured morphology that was then modified by silanization to allow a complete wetting by the silicon oil used to impregnate the textured surface and avoid its leakage during the scaling and cleaning stages.
The polyNIPAM microspheres were fixed to the surface by silanization.
SiO2-capped CdZnSeS/ZnSe1.0S1.3 Qdots were prepared by silanization [22, 23] of TGA-capped alloyed CdZnSeS/ZnSe1.0S1.3 Qdots.
Depending on the conditions, the binary oxides could be obtained as aerogels, either by supercritical drying or by silanization of the material by conventional drying [11].
Currently, an extensively used method is to chemically link biological molecules onto the surface either by silanization or by thiol-based self-assembled monolayers (SAM) [16, 17].
