摘要:
The present invention relates to a method for grafting polysiloxanes on surfaces of photocatalytic metal oxides by light illumination which comprises at least the following steps: a) providing a surface of a photocatalytically active metal oxide; b) providing a polysiloxane or a mixture of polysiloxanes on the metal oxide surface; c) irradiating the reaction mixture with light in a wavelength range from 180 nm to 550 nm for a sufficient time to generate reactive moieties in said polysiloxanes and to form covalent Si-O-Me (Me = metal) bonds between said reactive moieties of the polysiloxanes and the metal oxide surface; d) optionally separating unreacted polysiloxane molecules from the polysiloxane-grafted metal oxide surface; wherein no silane coupling agent or cross-linking agent needs to be present in the reaction mixture and/or participates in said grafting reaction. A further aspect of the invention relates to the hydrophobic and photocatalytically active polysiloxane-grafted metal oxide surface obtainable by said method and to articles comprising said surface.