Multi-modal mechanophores based on cinnamate dimers

Huan Zhang; Xun Li; Yangju Lin; Fei Gao; Zhen Tang; Peifeng Su; Wenke Zhang; Yuanze Xu; Wengui Weng; Roman Boulatov

doi:10.1038/s41467-017-01412-8

Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Multi-modal mechanophores based on cinnamate dimers

Huan Zhang,
Xun Li,
Yangju Lin,
Fei Gao,
Zhen Tang,
Peifeng Su,
Wenke Zhang,
Yuanze Xu,
Wengui Weng,
Roman Boulatov

Affiliations

Huan Zhang: Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen
Xun Li: State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun
Yangju Lin: Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen
Fei Gao: Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen
Zhen Tang: Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen
Peifeng Su: Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen
Wenke Zhang: State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun
Yuanze Xu: Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen
Wengui Weng: Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen
Roman Boulatov: Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, Donnan Lab

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01412-8
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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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 then can be optically healed.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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