Contemporary polymer network materials, such as hydrogels and elastomers, require not only enhanced mechanical properties but also adaptability during or after use. Polymer mechanochemistry, which ...

As mechanochemistry is where chemistry and mechanics meet, and involves the interaction of mechanical energy with matter at the molecular, supramolecular, and bulk materials levels, it encompasses not ...

mechanochemistry has been often regarded as exotic chemistry,” write the authors of a 2022 review on the subject. “This is beginning to change.” Usually, the energy needed to fuel a chemical ...

However, the “mechanophore hypothesis” proposes that new materials can be created that utilize selective bond activation where force drives ... including the history of polymer mechanochemistry over ...