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ReviewAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2024

Mechanochemical Approaches to Fundamental Studies in Soft-Matter Physics.

Robert T O'Neill, Roman Boulatov

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Review in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Mechanochemical Activation of a Bridged-Exciplex Optical Force Probe.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  3. Optical Force Monitoring in Polymeric Materials with a Coumarin-Based Mechanophore.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2025
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  6. Mechanochemical Approaches to Fundamental Studies in Soft-Matter Physics.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2024
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  7. Frontiers in chemistry · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Robert T O'NeillDepartment of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, University of Liverpool, Department of Chemistry, Grove Street, Liverpool, L69 7ZD.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4348-7635
Roman BoulatovDepartment of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, University of Liverpool, Department of Chemistry, Grove Street, Liverpool, L69 7ZD.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7601-4279

Funding

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/L000075/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stretching a segment of a polymer beyond its contour length makes its (primarily backbone) bonds more dissociatively labile, which enables polymer mechanochemistry. Integrating some backbone bonds into suitably designed molecular moieties yields mechanistically and kinetically diverse chemistry, which is becoming increasingly exploitable. Examples include, most prominently, attempts to improve mechanical properties of bulk polymers, as well as prospective applications in drug delivery and synthesis. This review aims to highlight an emerging effort to apply the concepts and experimental tools of mechanochemistry to fundamental physical questions in soft matter. A succinct summary of the state-of-the-knowledge of the field, with emphasis on foundational concepts and generalizable observations, is followed by analysis of 3 recent examples of mechanochemistry yielding molecular-level details of elastomer failure, macromolecular chain dynamics in elongational flows and kinetic allostery. We conclude with reasons to assume that the highlighted approaches are generalizable to a broader range of physical problems than considered to date.

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allosterymacromolecular rheologymechanochemistrypolymerssoft-matter

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PMID38404161
PMCPMC11497353

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