Browsing by Subject "mechanophore"
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Mechanochemistry for Active Materials and Devices
(2016)The coupling of mechanical stress fields in polymers to covalent chemistry (polymer mechanochemistry) has provided access to previously unattainable chemical reactions and polymer transformations. In the bulk, mechanochemical ... -
Molecular-Level Engineering of Stress-Responsive Materials
(2020)The insertion of force-sensitive motifs (mechanophores) into polymer backbones provides a mechanism to induce forbidden reactions, stabilize transition state, and build intrinsic stress-responsive materials. Although polymer ... -
Probing Mechanical Activation of Covalent Chemistry in Crosslinked Polymer Gels
(2013)Toughness, the measure of how much energy a material can absorb before rupture, is an important property of materials. It has been demonstrated that the toughness of a single polymer chain of <italic>gem</italic>-dihaloc... -
Structure-Activity Relationships in Mechanophores with Latent Conjugation
(2017)Materials often fail as a result of the mechanical loads they experience during use. On the molecular level, forces within polymers are distributed unevenly throughout the material, and some polymer subchains experience ...
