Covalent Bond Scission in the Mullins Effect of a Filled Elastomer: Real-Time Visualization with Mechanoluminescence

Increasing the Maximum Achievable Strain of a Covalent Polymer Gel Through the Addition of Mechanically Invisible Cross-Links

(2014) Zachary S. Kean et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Dioxetane Scission Products Unchanged by Mechanical Force

(2014) Jess M. Clough et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Bright, wind-driven white mechanoluminescence from zinc sulphide microparticles embedded in a polydimethylsiloxane elastomer

(2014) Soon Moon Jeong et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Direction dependent orthotropic model for Mullins materials

(2014) M.H.B.M. Shariff   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES

Mechanophore Activation at Heterointerfaces

(2014) Jun Li et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Dioxetanes as Mechanoluminescent Probes in Thermoplastic Elastomers

(2014) Yulan Chen et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Toughening Elastomers with Sacrificial Bonds and Watching Them Break

(2014) E. Ducrot et al.   SCIENCE

Cephalopod-inspired design of electro-mechano-chemically responsive elastomers for on-demand fluorescent patterning

(2014) Qiming Wang et al.   Nature Communications

Mechanochemical Activation of Covalent Bonds in Polymers with Full and Repeatable Macroscopic Shape Recovery

(2014) Gregory R. Gossweiler et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Historical-Log Recording System for Crack Opening and Growth Based on Mechanoluminescent Flexible Sensor

(2013) Nao Terasaki et al.   IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL

Stress-Responsive Polymers Containing Cyclobutane Core Mechanophores: Reactivity and Mechanistic Insights

(2013) Zachary S. Kean et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Opening and Closing of Nanocavities under Cyclic Loading in a Soft Nanocomposite Probed by Real-Time Small-Angle X-ray Scattering

(2013) Huan Zhang et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Mechanochemical strengthening of a synthetic polymer in response to typically destructive shear forces

(2013) Ashley L. Black Ramirez et al.   Nature Chemistry

Similar nonlinear mechanical responses in hard and soft materials

(2013) Kurt M. Schmoller et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Strain history dependence of the nonlinear stress response of fibrin and collagen networks

(2013) S. Munster et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mechanocatalytic Polymerization and Cross-Linking in a Polymeric Matrix

(2013) Robert T. M. Jakobs et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Mechanoradicals Created in “Polymeric Sponges” Drive Reactions in Aqueous Media

(2012) H. Tarik Baytekin et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Silica-rubber microstructure visualised in three dimensions by focused ion beam-scanning electron microscopy

(2012) L.B. TUNNICLIFFE et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY

Nanocavitation in Carbon Black Filled Styrene–Butadiene Rubber under Tension Detected by Real Time Small Angle X-ray Scattering

(2012) Huan Zhang et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Induced anisotropy by the Mullins effect in filled silicone rubber

(2012) G. Machado et al.   MECHANICS OF MATERIALS

Constitutive modeling of the anisotropic behavior of Mullins softened filled rubbers

(2012) Yannick Merckel et al.   MECHANICS OF MATERIALS

Mechanically induced chemiluminescence from polymers incorporating a 1,2-dioxetane unit in the main chain

(2012) Yulan Chen et al.   Nature Chemistry

Mechanoluminescent light source for a fluorescent probe molecule

(2011) Nao Terasaki et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

A critical local energy release rate criterion for fatigue fracture of elastomers

(2011) Samy Mzabi et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART B-POLYMER PHYSICS

Unfolding and Mechanochemical Scission of Supramolecular Polymers Containing a Metal–Ligand Coordination Bond

(2011) Ramon Groote et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Does Fractal Nanostructure of Filled Rubber Lead to Fractal Deformations? In Situ Measurements of Strain Heterogeneities by AFM

(2010) Olivier Lame   MACROMOLECULES

Elasticity and inelasticity of thermoplastic polyurethane elastomers: Sensitivity to chemical and physical structure

(2010) C.P. Buckley et al.   POLYMER

Understanding Covalent Mechanochemistry

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

On the Mullins effect and hysteresis of fibered biological materials: A comparison between continuous and discontinuous damage models

(2009) Estefanía Peña et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES

How far can a rubber molecule stretch before breaking? Ab initio study of tensile elasticity and failure in single-molecule polyisoprene and polybutadiene

(2009) David E. Hanson et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Force-induced activation of covalent bonds in mechanoresponsive polymeric materials

(2009) Douglas A. Davis et al.   NATURE

Activating catalysts with mechanical force

(2009) Alessio Piermattei et al.   Nature Chemistry

Influences of heating temperature on mechanical properties of polydimethylsiloxane

(2009) Miao Liu et al.   SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL

A review on the Mullins effect

(2008) Julie Diani et al.   EUROPEAN POLYMER JOURNAL

A Microscopic Model for the Reinforcement and the Nonlinear Behavior of Filled Elastomers and Thermoplastic Elastomers (Payne and Mullins Effects)

(2008) Samy Merabia et al.   MACROMOLECULES