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A Latent Mechanoacid for Time-Stamped Mechanochromism and Chemical Signaling in Polymeric Materials by Lin, Yangju, Kouznetsova, Tatiana B, Craig, Stephen L

“…Mechanically coupled proton transduction offers potential for stress-responsive polymeric materials whose properties can be switched via acid-triggered…”
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Large-Area Cross-Aligned Silver Nanowire Electrodes for Flexible, Transparent, and Force-Sensitive Mechanochromic Touch Screens by Cho, Seungse, Kang, Saewon, Pandya, Ashish, Shanker, Ravi, Khan, Ziyauddin, Lee, Youngsu, Park, Jonghwa, Craig, Stephen L, Ko, Hyunhyub

“…Silver nanowire (AgNW) networks are considered to be promising structures for use as flexible transparent electrodes for various optoelectronic devices. One…”
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Cephalopod-inspired design of electro-mechano-chemically responsive elastomers for on-demand fluorescent patterning by Wang, Qiming, Gossweiler, Gregory R., Craig, Stephen L., Zhao, Xuanhe

“…Cephalopods can display dazzling patterns of colours by selectively contracting muscles to reversibly activate chromatophores – pigment-containing cells under…”
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Force-Rate Characterization of Two Spiropyran-Based Molecular Force Probes by Gossweiler, Gregory R, Kouznetsova, Tatiana B, Craig, Stephen L

“…The mechanically accelerated ring-opening reaction of spiropyran to a colored merocyanine provides a useful method by which to image the molecular scale…”
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Quantitative Adjustment to the Molecular Energy Parameter in the Lake–Thomas Theory of Polymer Fracture Energy by Wang, Shu, Panyukov, Sergey, Rubinstein, Michael, Craig, Stephen L

“…We present a conceptual framework for adding molecular details of chain extension and force-coupled bond dissociation to the Lake–Thomas model of tear energy…”
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Mechanical gating of a mechanochemical reaction cascade by Wang, Junpeng, Kouznetsova, Tatiana B., Boulatov, Roman, Craig, Stephen L.

“…Covalent polymer mechanochemistry offers promising opportunities for the control and engineering of reactivity. To date, covalent mechanochemistry has largely…”
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Covalent Mechanochemistry and Contemporary Polymer Network Chemistry: A Marriage in the Making by Lloyd, Evan M., Vakil, Jafer R., Yao, Yunxin, Sottos, Nancy R., Craig, Stephen L.

“…Over the past 20 years, the field of polymer mechanochemistry has amassed a toolbox of mechanophores that translate mechanical energy into a variety of…”
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A Hierarchical Nanoparticle‐in‐Micropore Architecture for Enhanced Mechanosensitivity and Stretchability in Mechanochromic Electronic Skins by Park, Jonghwa, Lee, Youngoh, Barbee, Meredith H., Cho, Soowon, Cho, Seungse, Shanker, Ravi, Kim, Jinyoung, Myoung, Jinyoung, Kim, Minsoo P., Baig, Chunggi, Craig, Stephen L., Ko, Hyunhyub

“…Biological tissues are multiresponsive and functional, and similar properties might be possible in synthetic systems by merging responsive polymers with…”
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Molecular engineering of mechanophore activity for stress-responsive polymeric materials by Brown, Cameron L, Craig, Stephen L

“…Force reactive functional groups, or mechanophores, have emerged as the basis of a potential strategy for sensing and countering stress-induced material…”
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Relative Mechanical Strengths of Weak Bonds in Sonochemical Polymer Mechanochemistry by Lee, Bobin, Niu, Zhenbin, Wang, Junpeng, Slebodnick, Carla, Craig, Stephen L

“…The mechanical strength of scissile chemical bonds plays a role in material failure and in the mechanical activation of latent reactivity, but quantitative…”
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Generalizing metallocene mechanochemistry to ruthenocene mechanophores by Sha, Ye, Zhang, Yudi, Xu, Enhua, McAlister, C. Wayne, Zhu, Tianyu, Craig, Stephen L, Tang, Chuanbing

“…Recent reports have shown that ferrocene displays an unexpected combination of force-free stability and mechanochemical activity, as it acts as the preferred…”
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Molecular Characterization of Polymer Networks by Danielsen, Scott P. O, Beech, Haley K, Wang, Shu, El-Zaatari, Bassil M, Wang, Xiaodi, Sapir, Liel, Ouchi, Tetsu, Wang, Zi, Johnson, Patricia N, Hu, Yixin, Lundberg, David J, Stoychev, Georgi, Craig, Stephen L, Johnson, Jeremiah A, Kalow, Julia A, Olsen, Bradley D, Rubinstein, Michael

“…Polymer networks are complex systems consisting of molecular components. Whereas the properties of the individual components are typically well understood by…”
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Enhanced polymer mechanical degradation through mechanochemically unveiled lactonization by Lin, Yangju, Kouznetsova, Tatiana B., Chang, Chia-Chih, Craig, Stephen L.

“…The mechanical degradation of polymers is typically limited to a single chain scission per triggering chain stretching event, and the loss of stress transfer…”
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Distal conformational locks on ferrocene mechanophores guide reaction pathways for increased mechanochemical reactivity by Zhang, Yudi, Wang, Zi, Kouznetsova, Tatiana B., Sha, Ye, Xu, Enhua, Shannahan, Logan, Fermen-Coker, Muge, Lin, Yangju, Tang, Chuanbing, Craig, Stephen L.

“…Mechanophores can be used to produce strain-dependent covalent chemical responses in polymeric materials, including stress strengthening, stress sensing and…”
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Substituent Effects and Mechanism in a Mechanochemical Reaction by Barbee, Meredith H, Kouznetsova, Tatiana, Barrett, Scott L, Gossweiler, Gregory R, Lin, Yangju, Rastogi, Shiva K, Brittain, William J, Craig, Stephen L

“…We report the effect of substituents on the force-induced reactivity of a spiropyran mechanophore. Using single molecule force spectroscopy, force-rate…”
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Mechanochemical Strengthening of a Multi-mechanophore Benzocyclobutene Polymer by Wang, Junpeng, Piskun, Ilya, Craig, Stephen L

“…The mechanical stresses that materials experience during use can lead to aging and failure. Recent developments in covalent mechanochemistry have provided a…”
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Mechanism Dictates Mechanics: A Molecular Substituent Effect in the Macroscopic Fracture of a Covalent Polymer Network by Wang, Shu, Beech, Haley K, Bowser, Brandon H, Kouznetsova, Tatiana B, Olsen, Bradley D, Rubinstein, Michael, Craig, Stephen L

“…The fracture of rubbery polymer networks involves a series of molecular events, beginning with conformational changes along the polymer backbone and…”
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Mechanochemical strengthening of a synthetic polymer in response to typically destructive shear forces by Ramirez, Ashley L. Black, Kean, Zachary S., Orlicki, Joshua A., Champhekar, Mangesh, Elsakr, Sarah M., Krause, Wendy E., Craig, Stephen L.

“…High shear stresses are known to trigger destructive bond-scission reactions in polymers. Recent work has shown that the same shear forces can be used to…”
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Scaling Laws in Supramolecular Polymer Networks by Xu, Donghua, Craig, Stephen L

“…The linear rheological properties of networks formed by adding bis-Pd(II) cross-linkers to poly(4-vinylpyridine) (PVP) solution are examined, and the scaling…”
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Reactivity and Mechanism of a Mechanically Activated anti-Woodward–Hoffmann–DePuy Reaction by Wang, Junpeng, Kouznetsova, Tatiana B, Craig, Stephen L

“…Mechanical forces, applied via covalent polymer mechanochemistry, have been used to bias reaction pathways and activate otherwise inaccessible reactions. Here,…”
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