A monolith surface with alkyne functionality was reacted with cysteamine through radical-mediated thiol-yne addition reaction providing a hydrophilic and chelating interface. Photochemical initiation affords spatial control over the reaction site and further site-specific immobilisation of gold nanoparticles.
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Guerrouache et al. (2012) studied this question.