Polymers that change mechanical properties in response to their mechanical environment offer opportunities for adaptive material systems, and might enable new mechanically coupled strategies for material processing, recycling, and upcyclig.  This broad vision motivates the design of mechanophores whose mechanically triggered activation initiates polymerization or depolymerization chemistries.  Examples of such mechanophores and the reactivity that serves this purpose will be presented.

Mechanochemical methods for triggered polymerization and depolymerization

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