Researchers from the Olvera de la Cruz and Craig labs report a polyelectrolyte handle for single-molecule force spectroscopy that offers a combination of excellent attachment features.
New MONET Publication in Macromolecules
A team from the Rubinstein and Craig labs present a modified Lake–Thomas theory that accounts for the molecular details of network connectivity upon crack propagation in polymer networks.
New MONET Publication in ACS Macro Letters
Researchers in the Rubinstein lab develop a single-chain model to account for the redistribution of monomers between network strands of a primary chain.
New MONET Publication in ACS Macro Letters
Researchers in the Johnson and Olsen labs use small angle neutron scattering to measure single chain radii of gyration of end-linked polymer gels before and after cross-linking to calculate the prestrain, which is the ratio of the average chain size in a cross-linked network to that of a free chain in solution. These measurements serve as a point of reference for network theories that rely on this parameter for the calculation of mechanical properties.
New MONET Publication in JACS
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.
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 Advanced Materials
Researchers from the Campos and Nelson labs employ the unconventional, yet versatile, multiexciton process of triplet–triplet annihilation upconversion (TTA-UC) for curing opaque hydrogel composites created by direct-ink-write (DIW) 3D printing.
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.