How can I silanize aluminium oxide? And is there a technique to see the silanisation?

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Sepideh Pourhashem

Here are 2 papers with appropriate methods for silane functionalization of alumina:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/app.49412

https://analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/sia.3166

And you can monitor silane grafting on your sample by FTIR and XPS analysis, also, XRD can be used.

Michael Schmitt

What do you want to achieve?

You wil find some infromation about pretreatment and siloxanisation of solid material in our publications. Concering observation Raman worked quite well

Article Analysis of silanes and of siloxanes formation by Raman spectroscopy

Article Silane Deposition via Gas-Phase Evaporation and High-Resolut...