“…The systematic use of organofunctional molecule immobilization has increased in the past three decades, mainly on silica, because this support offers pronounced advantages over the organic supports, such as: (a) immobilization on silica resulting in a great variety of silylating agents, allowing myriad pendant functional groups in the inorganic framework; (b) attachment being easier on silica surface than on organic supports, which have a high number of crosslinking bonds, requiring hours to reach equilibrium; (c) silica gel being the most popular substrate for surfaces studies because it was the first commercially available high specific surface area substrate with constant composition, enabling analysis and interpretation of results; (d) inorganic supports not swelling in organic solvents; (e) great resistance to organic solvents, and (f) particularly, silica having high thermal resistance (1).…”