Already in his young career, Ryan Hayward has made creative use of mechanical instabilities in polymers, and the JPS Innovation Prize is well-earned for that and other insights. This talk will present ideas of how mechanical instabilities can be controlled via material microstructure, and how those instabilities can be used to trigger covalent mechanochemistry as a first step towards mechanochemically driven devices.

Mechanochemical devices

246th National Meeting (2013)

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