Aryl Diazonium Salts – New Coupling Agents in Polymer and Surface Science

Mohamed M. Chehimi is Research Director at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in France and the leader of the Surface & Interface research group at ITODYS Laboratory of the University Paris Diderot, where he obtained his PhD in physical organic chemistry in 1988 and finished his Habilitation in 1995. He has authored over 200 scientific publications and has received the Honorary Medal from the Polymer Institute (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia) for long term and efficient international cooperation on surface and interface aspects of nanocomposites in 2008. His main research interests are aryl diazonium coupling agents, reactive and functional ultrathin polymer films via surface polymerization or "click" chemistry, carbon/polymer composites for the uptake of heavy metals, molecularly imprinted polymer-based sensors, clay/polymer nanocomposites and films, powders, latex particles, and nanocomposites of conductive polypyrrole.