New tool could facilitate discovery of new mechanically responsive materials

Credit: Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Yunyan Sun, left, and Jeffrey Moore with an illustration of the Tension Model of Bond Activation (TMBA), an intuitive tool that can predict the reactivity of C-C bonds when designing mechanophores.

« New tool could facilitate discovery of new mechanically responsive materials

Credit: Photo provided by Ilia Kevlishvili

Ilia Kevlishvili, postdoctoral researcher in chemical engineering and chemistry at MIT

« New tool could facilitate discovery of new mechanically responsive materials

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Stephen L. Craig, professor of chemistry at Duke University

« New tool could facilitate discovery of new mechanically responsive materials

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