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. 2020 Nov 26;7:587012. doi: 10.3389/fmolb.2020.587012

TABLE 1.

Resume of the most common strategies used to modify NPs surface related to the nanomaterials.

Material Usable functional/chemical groups Example of chemical compounds/processes suitable for surface modification
Silica −SiOH X-Si(OC2H5)3
Noble metals −Au; −Ag (plasmonic metals) X-SH, X-NH2
Metal oxide MOx X-COOH; X-(OH)n; X-NH2 (adsorption)
Carbon based sp2 hybridize carbon Oxidation; halogenation, cycloaddition …