Multi-modal mechanophores based on cinnamate dimers
Mechanochemistry offers exciting opportunities for molecular engineering of stress-responsive properties of polymers. Here the authors show that macrocyclic cinnamate dimers in a polymer chain can undergo dissociation on the sub-second timescale under 1–2 nN stretching to yield a chromophore that th...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2017-10-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01412-8 |