Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

Photo-induced stress relaxation in reconfigurable disulfide-crosslinked supramolecular films visualized by dynamic wrinkling

  • Shuzhen Yan,
  • Kaiming Hu,
  • Shuai Chen,
  • Tiantian Li,
  • Wenming Zhang,
  • Jie Yin,
  • Xuesong Jiang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35271-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The mechanics of reconfigurable supramolecular polymer networks are governed by their dynamic crosslinking chemistry and the resulting stress relaxations. Here, the authors use reversible wrinkling patterns to visualize localized stress relaxations, due to molecular network rearrangements.