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Fundamental and Applied Investigations in Solid-State Polymer Mechanochemistry
The translation of mechanical force to specific chemical reactivity within polymeric materials is known as polymer mechanochemistry. While this phenomenon has long been observed in homopolymers, it has recently attracted much interest as researchers have developed systems capable of site-specific activation and defined outputs ...
Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of N-Sulfonylaziridines with Boronic Acids and Synthetic Approaches to Organic Polymer-Supported One-Dimensional Metal Wires
The development of new reaction methodologies has been the gateway through which chemists have come to understand the world. In pursuit of making something better, faster, or completely novel, the synthetic community has happened upon observations that have had indisputable and far-reaching impact on the way society functions. ...
Explorations into the Synthesis and Reactivity of Polynorbornene Frameworks
Polynorbornenes are a highly versatile polymer that allows for much modification of the side chains and multiple methods for polymerization. Chapter 1 introduces our unique photoredox mediated ring-opening metathesis polymerization (photo-ROMP) technique for ring-opening metathesis polymerizations (ROMP) that utilizes an ...
Additive Manufacturing of Mechanoresponsive Polymers
Polymer mechanochemistry has been investigated for the mechanism of mechanical force-induced chemical reactivity within polymers. Many efforts have been made to fine tune the mechanoresponsiveness of the polymeric materials both in molecular and macroscopic level to broaden the applications of this kind of stimuli-responsive ...
Designing nickel- and palladium-based precatalysts to improve catalyst-transfer polymerization towards conjugated polymer synthesis
Catalyst transfer polymerization (CTP) is a versatile synthetic tool to obtain access to sequence specific π-conjugated polymers, which are attractive materials for organic electronics. CTP proceeds through a chain-growth mechanism creating polymers with precise molecular weights, narrow dispersities, and end-group ...
Designing Polymer Hydrogels for Extrusion-Based Additive Manufacturing
Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies are expanding the boundaries of materials science and providing an exciting forum for interdisciplinary research. The ability to fabricate arbitrarily complex objects has made AM technologies indispensable in personalized healthcare, soft electronics, and renewable energy. At the ...