Tian, Yancong 
ORCID: 0000-0001-9075-0363, Cao, Xiaodong, Li, Xun, Zhang, Huan, Sun, Cai-Li, Xu, Yuanze, Weng, Wengui, Zhang, Wenke and Boulatov, Roman ORCID: 0000-0002-7601-4279
(2020)
A Polymer with Mechanochemically Active Hidden Length.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 142 (43).
pp. 18687-18697.
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Abstract
Incorporating hidden length into polymer chains can improve their mechanical properties, because release of the hidden length under mechanical loads enables localized strain relief without chain fracture. To date, the design of hidden length has focused primarily on the choice of the sacrificial bonds holding the hidden length together. Here we demonstrate the advantages of adding mechanochemical reactivity to hidden length itself, using a new mechanophore that integrates (<i>Z</i>)-2,3-diphenylcyclobutene-1,4-dicarboxylate, with hitherto unknown mechanochemistry, into macrocyclic cinnamate dimers. Stretching a polymer of this mechanophore more than doubles the chain contour length without fracture. DFT calculations indicate that the sequential dissociation of the dimer, followed by cyclobutene isomerization at higher forces yields a chain fracture energy 11 times that of a simple polyester of the same initial contour length and preserves high energy-dissipating capacity up to ∼3 nN. In sonicated solutions cyclobutene isomerizes to two distinct products by competing reaction paths, validating the computed mechanochemical mechanism and suggesting an experimental approach to quantifying the distribution of single-chain forces under diverse loading scenarios.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Patient Safety |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Nov 2020 14:22 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Mar 2024 20:03 |
| DOI: | 10.1021/jacs.0c09220 |
| Open Access URL: | https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c09220 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3106041 |
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