Mechanically activated rupture of single covalent bonds: evidence of force induced bond hydrolysis

Spontaneous and Specific Activation of Chemical Bonds in Macromolecular Fluids

(2010) Insun Park et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Mechanochemical Transduction of Externally Applied Forces to Mechanophores

(2010) Jordi Ribas-Arino et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Simple Coupling Chemistry Linking Carboxyl-Containing Organic Molecules to Silicon Oxide Surfaces under Acidic Conditions

(2010) Sebastian W. Schmidt et al.   LANGMUIR

Mechanochemistry: One Bond at a Time

(2009) Jian Liang et al.   ACS Nano

Understanding Covalent Mechanochemistry

(2009) Jordi Ribas-Arino et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Mechanically-Induced Chemical Changes in Polymeric Materials

(2009) Mary M. Caruso et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Unravelling the Mechanism of Force-Induced Ring-Opening of Benzocyclobutenes

(2009) Jordi Ribas-Arino et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Assessment of theoretical methods for the determination of the mechanochemical strength of covalent bonds

(2009) Maria Francesca Iozzi et al.   MOLECULAR PHYSICS

Switching the mechanics of dsDNA by Cu salicylic aldehyde complexation

(2009) Benjamin M Gaub et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Force-induced activation of covalent bonds in mechanoresponsive polymeric materials

(2009) Douglas A. Davis et al.   NATURE

Force-activated reactivity switch in a bimolecular chemical reaction

(2009) Sergi Garcia-Manyes et al.   Nature Chemistry

Potential energy surface and unimolecular dynamics of stretched n-butane

(2008) Upakarasamy Lourderaj et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

“Fatal Adsorption” of Brushlike Macromolecules:  High Sensitivity of C−C Bond Cleavage Rates to Substrate Surface Energy

(2008) Natalia V. Lebedeva et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Dynamic Strength of the Silicon−Carbon Bond Observed over Three Decades of Force-Loading Rates

(2008) Sebastian W. Schmidt et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Mechanochemistry and Thermochemistry are Different: Stress-Induced Strengthening of Chemical Bonds

(2008) Martin Konôpka et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Single-Molecule Measurement of the Strength of a Siloxane Bond†

(2007) Peter Schwaderer et al.   LANGMUIR