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SUBMITTER: Ramirez AL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3896090 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature chemistry 20130804 9
High shear stresses are known to trigger destructive bond-scission reactions in polymers. Recent work has shown that the same shear forces can be used to accelerate non-destructive reactions in mechanophores along polymer backbones, and it is demonstrated here that such mechanochemical reactions can be used to strengthen a polymer subjected to otherwise destructive shear forces. Polybutadiene was functionalized with dibromocyclopropane mechanophores, whose mechanical activation generates allylic ...[more]