Area of research
Biomedical Engineering · Mechanical Engineering
Research interest
Research topics from publications: High-Temperature Grafting Silylation for Minimizing Leaching of Acid Functionality from Hydrophobic Mesoporous Silicas Used as Catalysts in the Liquid Phase. Representative work: Ordered-hexagonal silica materials, such as Mobil crystalline material-41 and Santa Barbara amorphous-15, have important applications in heterogeneous catalysis and biomass conversion due to their chemical stability and mesoporous structure. Low-temperature grafting (LG) is one of the most common functionalization methods used to modify the acidity/basicity or hydrophobicity/hydrophilicity of the surface. However, the materials prepared by this method are prone to leaching of functional groups into the reaction medium. The exact nature of the leaching phenomenon has not been fully addressed in the literature. In this contribution, we have investigated this process at the molecular level by c