“…[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] Various silica materials including porous silica particles, 1,4,[6][7][11][12][13][14][15][16] silica beads, 2,5,10 silica monolith, 9 and silica capillary 3,8 have been used for such purposes. Atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) was most frequently used in such studies [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]16 while reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization was also sometimes utilized. [11][12][14][15] It is interesting to note that an initiator was attached to organic monolith particles instead of silica, and a polymer layer with ion exchange capability was added by ATRP in a specific study.…”