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Nanoscale, 2022, 14, 12595
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Covalent functionalization of molybdenum disulfide by chemically activated diazonium salts

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Nanoscale, 2021, 13, 2972
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Covalent functionalization of tin disulfide with porphyrin for ultrafast optical limiting

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Regulation of heterogeneous electron transfer reactivity by defect engineering through electrochemically induced brominating addition

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Defect-engineered surfaces to investigate the formation of self-assembled molecular networks

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Chem. Sci., 2022, 13, 13212
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Covalent chemical functionalization of Ti3C2Tx MXene nanosheets with fullerenes C60 and C70 for enhanced nonlinear optical limiting

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The Covalent Functionalization of Surface‐Supported Graphene: An Update

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Angew Chem Int Ed, 2023, 62
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Surface Modification of Lignite with Alkyl and Mixed Alkyl‐Aryl Films Generated from an Aryl Diazonium Salt and Alkyl Halides: Experimental Results and Theoretical Analyses

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Dispersibility of graphene-family materials and their impact on the properties of cement-based materials: Application challenges and prospects

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Versatile Strategy for Organic Surface Modification of Cobalt Phosphide Using Iodonium Salts Enables Systematic Tuning for Hydrogenation Catalysis

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Covalent transfer of chemical gradients onto a graphenic surface with 2D and 3D control

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Nat Commun, 2022, 13
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Spatially Controlled Aryl Radical Grafting of Graphite Surfaces Guided by Self-Assembled Molecular Networks of Linear Alkane Derivatives: The Importance of Conformational Dynamics

Sota Aoi, Shingo Hirose, Wakana Soeda, Hiromasa Kaneko, Kunal S. Mali, Steven De Feyter and Kazukuni Tahara

Langmuir, 2023, 39, 5986
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Visible‐Light Assisted Covalent Surface Functionalization of Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanosheets with Arylazo Sulfones

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Chemistry A European J, 2022, 28
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Multicomponent Covalent Chemical Patterning of Graphene

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Efficient strategies to produce Graphene and functionalized graphene materials: A review

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Scope and Limitations of Using Microemulsions for the Covalent Patterning of Graphene

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Grafting Ink for Direct Writing: Solvation Activated Covalent Functionalization of Graphene

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Advanced Science, 2022, 9
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Densification of Diazonium-Based Organic Thin Film as Bioelectrical Interface

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New protocol for functionalization of fullerene soot with dinitrobenzene groups from a non-diazonium resource

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Reversible Tuning of Surface Properties of Graphene-like Material via Covalently Functionalized Hydrophobic Layer

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Dynamic Gate Control of Aryldiazonium Chemistry on Graphene Field-Effect Transistors

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The Covalent Functionalization of Surface‐Supported Graphene: An Update

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Surface functionalization of nanomaterials by aryl diazonium salts for biomedical sciences

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Graphene-based nanomaterials for wastewater treatment – A review on advances, optimization, and future perspectives

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Self‐templated covalent functionalization of graphitic surfaces with a quasi‐periodic pattern

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Aggregate, 2022, 3
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Diazotization-driven synthesis of functional dyes and carbon materials Modifications: Advances, challenges, and prospects

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