Force ahead: Emerging Applications and Opportunities of Polymer Mechanochemistry.

While historically the first examples of OFPs (e.g., spiropyran) were designed by synthetic chemists and were employed qualitatively to visualize force-induced reactions in polymers, 8 , 13 recently a strong trend to quantitative measurements has been promoted by researchers applying OFPs as tools to investigate mechanical phenomena in soft matter. 14 − 16 Specifically the application of high-resolution microscopy methods, such as confocal laser scanning microscopy, 17 , 18 enabled the quantification of bond scission processes on the locally resolved sub-micrometer scale. 14 , 19 This information aided in developing and benchmarking computational models and polymer theory.

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