When incorporated into polymeric materials mechanophores can be used to produce strain-dependent covalent chemical responses including stress-strengthening stress-sensing[...]

The mechanical degradation of polymers is typically limited to a single chain scission per triggering chain stretching event and the loss of stress transfer that results [...]

The mechanical properties of covalent polymer networks often arise from the permanent end-linking or cross-linking of polymer strands and molecular linkers that break mor[...]

Here we report the mechanochemical reactivity of the highly strained pentacyclic hydrocarbon cubane. The mechanical reactivity of cubane is explored for three regioisomer[...]