Distal conformational locks on ferrocene mechanophores guide reaction pathways for increased mechanochemical reactivity

Mechanical Force Induces Ylide-Free Cycloaddition of Nonscissible Aziridines

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Enhanced polymer mechanical degradation through mechanochemically unveiled lactonization

(2020) Yangju Lin et al.   Nature Communications

Mechanoresponsive self-growing hydrogels inspired by muscle training

(2019) Takahiro Matsuda et al.   SCIENCE

Maleimide–thiol adducts stabilized through stretching

(2019) Wenmao Huang et al.   Nature Chemistry

Multicolor Mechanochromism of a Polymer/Silica Composite with Dual Distinct Mechanophores

(2019) Takahiro Kosuge et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Anti-Stokes Stress Sensing: Mechanochemical Activation of Triplet-Triplet Annihilation Photon Upconversion

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Triggered metal ion release and oxidation: Ferrocene as new mechanophore in polymers

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Rotaxanes as Mechanochromic Fluorescent Force Transducers in Polymers

(2018) Yoshimitsu Sagara et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Quantitative and Mechanistic Mechanochemistry in Ferrocene Dissociation

(2018) Ye Sha et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Polymer Mechanochemistry: Manufacturing Is Now a Force to Be Reckoned With

(2018) Niamh Willis-Fox et al.   Chem

Regiochemical Effects on Mechanophore Activation in Bulk Materials

(2018) Yangju Lin et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Mechanical Reactivity of Two Different Spiropyran Mechanophores in Polydimethylsiloxane

(2018) Tae Ann Kim et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Mechanochemical unzipping of insulating polyladderene to semiconducting polyacetylene

(2017) Zhixing Chen et al.   SCIENCE

Mechanical Reversibility of Strain-Promoted Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition Reactions

(2016) Monique J. Jacobs et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Mechanochemical Cycloreversion of Cyclobutane Observed at the Single Molecule Level

(2016) Michael F. Pill et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Combined Constant-Force and Constant-Velocity Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy of the Conrotatory Ring Opening Reaction of Benzocyclobutene

(2016) Tatiana B. Kouznetsova et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Regioisomer-Specific Mechanochromism of Naphthopyran in Polymeric Materials

(2016) Maxwell J. Robb et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A Novel Mechanochromic and Photochromic Polymer Film: When Rhodamine Joins Polyurethane

(2015) Zhijian Wang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Probing Force with Mechanobase-Induced Chemiluminescence

(2015) Jess M. Clough et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Force-Rate Characterization of Two Spiropyran-Based Molecular Force Probes

(2015) Gregory R. Gossweiler et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Mechanistic Insights into the Sonochemical Activation of Multimechanophore Cyclopropanated Polybutadiene Polymers

(2015) Jeremy M. Lenhardt et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Inducing and quantifying forbidden reactivity with single-molecule polymer mechanochemistry

(2015) Junpeng Wang et al.   Nature Chemistry

Mechanochemical Strengthening of a Multi-mechanophore Benzocyclobutene Polymer

(2015) Junpeng Wang et al.   ACS Macro Letters

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

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Molecular Catch Bonds and the Anti-Hammond Effect in Polymer Mechanochemistry

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

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

Prediction of reaction barriers and force-induced instabilities under mechanochemical conditions with an approximate model: A case study of the ring opening of 1,3-cyclohexadiene

(2012) Adrian Bailey et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

A backbone lever-arm effect enhances polymer mechanochemistry

(2012) Hope M. Klukovich et al.   Nature Chemistry

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

(2012) Yulan Chen et al.   Nature Chemistry

Structure–Mechanochemical Activity Relationships for Cyclobutane Mechanophores

(2011) Matthew J. Kryger et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Molecular Stress Relief through a Force-Induced Irreversible Extension in Polymer Contour Length

(2010) Dong Wu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Free energy profiles from single-molecule pulling experiments

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Force-induced activation of covalent bonds in mechanoresponsive polymeric materials

(2009) Douglas A. Davis et al.   NATURE

A Simple and Practical Spreadsheet-Based Method to Extract Single-Molecule Dissociation Kinetics from Variable Loading-Rate Force Spectroscopy Data

(2008) Michael J. Serpe et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C