In this article, researchers from the Klausen, Kulik, Moore, Kalow, Sottos, and Johnson labs highlight the use of a comonomer strategy for silyl ether exchange yielding deconstruction and bulk remolding in pDCPD thermosets.
Author: mc213@duke.edu
New MONET Perspective in JACS
In this Perspective, researchers from the Sottos and Craig labs speculate as to the potential match between covalent polymer mechanochemistry and recent advances in polymer network chemistry, specifically, topologically controlled networks and the hierarchical material responses enabled by multi-network architectures and mechanically interlocked polymers.
New MONET Publication in ACS Applied Engineering Materials
The Sottos, Johnson, and Moore labs demonstrate end-of-life deconstruction and upcycling of high-performance poly(dicyclopentadiene) (pDCPD) thermosets with a concurrent reduction in the energy demand for curing via frontal copolymerization.
New MONET Publication in Journal of Rheology
The Olsen and Craig labs examine linear rheological properties of supramolecular polymer networks formed by mixtures of two different cross-linkers.
New MONET Publication in Chemical Science
A multi-institutional team from the Olsen, Moore, Nelson, Craig, and Kalow labs advance BigSMILES to accommodate a broad variety of non-covalent chemistry with a simple user-oriented, semi-flexible annotation formalism.
New MONET Publication in JACS
MONET Senior Investigators Jeremiah Johnson and Heather Kulik in collaboration with MONET postdoc Ilia Kevlishvili, MONET alum Nathan Oldenhuis, and others introduce a modular heterogenous catalysis platform in this latest publication in JACS.Article Link
New MONET Publication in Macromolecules
Michael Rubinstein and collaborators at Duke, University of Hokkaido, and the Russian Academy of Sciences have developed a scaling theory of the elasticity of swollen and deswollen polymer networks.Article Link
New MONET Publication in Biomacromolecules
Nicole Steinmetz and a team at University of California, San Diego formulated cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV) nanoparticles in injectable hydrogels to achieve slow particle release and prolonged immunostimulation, eliciting an antibody response that was sustained over 20 weeks in mouse models.Article Link
MONET Meeting – March 19, 2022
Some of the MONET team meet to explore Mission Bay and talk science before the ACS Spring Meeting 2022 in San Diego.
New MONET Publication in JACS
Mechanically Triggered Carbon Monoxide Release with Turn-On Aggregation-Induced Emission
Polymers that release functional small molecules under mechanical stress potentially serve as next-generation materials for catalysis, sensing, and mechanochemical dynamic therapy. To further expand the function of mechanoresponsive materials, the discovery of chemistries capable of small molecule release are highly desirable. In this report, a MONET team details a nonscissile bifunctional mechanophore (i.e., dual mechano-activated properties) based on a unique mechanochemical reaction involving norborn-2-en-7-one (NEO).
Yunyan Sun, William J. Neary, Zachary P. Burke, Hai Qian, Lingyang Zhu, and Jeffrey S. Moore