Quite unlike traditional semiconductors, which are brittle, halide perovskites are relatively soft and deformable at moderate pressure, i.e. they undergo 'plastic deformation,' a process in which the ...

Polymer molecules in various states – solid, melt, solution – are susceptible to covalent bond changes in response to mechanical ... including the history of polymer mechanochemistry over the past two ...

H. Ostwald at the end of the 19th century, mechanochemistry has been often regarded as exotic chemistry,” write the authors of a 2022 review on the subject. “This is beginning to change.” ...