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Mechanically-induced reactivity is a promising means for designing self sensing and autonomous materials. Mechanically sensitive chemical groups called mechanophores can be covalently linked into polymers in order to trigger specific chemical reactions upon mechanical loading. Here, glassy PMMA and rubbery PMA each linked with mechanochromic molecules, are used as representative polymer architectures for building both understanding and quantitative models of mechanophore activation in bulk polymers.
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This material is based upon work supported in part by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the U.S. Army Research Office under contract/grant number W911NF-07-1-0409 and in part by an Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation postdoctoral fellowship.
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Silberstein, M.N. et al. (2013). Multiscale Modeling of Mechanoresponsive Polymers. In: Antoun, B., Qi, H., Hall, R., Tandon, G., Lu, H., Lu, C. (eds) Challenges in Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials and Processes in Conventional and Multifunctional Materials, Volume 2. Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4241-7_6
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