Fast Polymeric Functionalization Approach for the Covalent Coating of MoS Layers.

We present the covalent coating of chemically exfoliated molybdenum disulfide (MoS) based on the polymerization of functional acryl molecules. The method relies on the efficient diazonium anchoring reaction to provoke the in situ radical polymerization and covalent adhesion of functional coatings. In particular, we successfully implement hydrophobicity on the exfoliated MoS in a direct, fast, and quantitative synthetic approach.