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Submissions from 2022

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Analysis of molecular photomechanical performance using a one-dimensional harmonic model, Adam J. Berges and Christopher J. Bardeen

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Photomechanical Structures Based on Porous Alumina Templates Filled with 9-Methylanthracene Nanowires, Adam J. Berges, Wangxiang Li, Wenwen XU, Fei Tong, Rabih O. Al-Kaysi, Ryan C. Haywarsd, and Christopher J. Bardeen

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Formation of rolls from liquid crystal elastomer bistrips, Yuzhen Chen, Alexa S. Kuenstler, Ryan C. Hayward, and Lihua Jin

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Performance of Composite Glass–Diarylethene Crystal Photomechanical Actuator Membranes, Xinning Dong, Tianyi Guo, Daichi Kitagawa, Seiya Kobatake, Peter Palffy-Muhoray, and Christopher J. Bardeen

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Regimes in the Response of Photomechanical Materials, Tianyi Guo, Anastasiia Svanidze, Xiaoyu Zheng, and Peter Palffy-Muhoray

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Patterning Submicron Photomechanical Features into Single Diarylethene Crystals Using Electron Beam Lithography., Wangxiang Li, Daichi Kitagawa, Seiya Kobatake, Elena Bekyarova, and Christopher J. Bardeen

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Chiral photochemistry of achiral molecules, Umberto Raucci, Hayley Weir, Christoph Bannwarth, David M. Sanchez, and Todd J. Martínez

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Bringing chemical structures to life with augmented reality, machine learning, and quantum chemistry, Sukolsak Sakshuwong, Hayley Weir, Umberto Raucci, and Todd J. Martínez

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A multi-stage single photochrome system for controlled photoswitching responses, Friedrich Stricker, David M. Sanchez, Umberto Raucci, Neil D. Dolinski, Manuel S. Zayas, Jan Meisner, Craig J. Hawker, Todd J. Martínez, and Javier Read de Alaniz

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Anticlinic order of long-range repulsive rodlike magnetic particles in two dimensions, Xiaoyu Zheng, Obeng Appiagyei Addai, and Peter Palffy-Muhoray

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A Semicrystalline Poly(azobenzene) Exhibiting Room Temperature Light-Induced Melting, Crystallization, and Alignment, Hanato Zhou, Alexa S. Kuenstler, Wenwen Xu, Mingqiu Hu, and Ryan C. Hayward

Submissions from 2021

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Shining Light on Cyclopentadienone-Norbornadiene Diels-Alder Adducts to Enable Photoinduced Click Chemistry with Cyclopentadiene, Sophia J. Bailey, Friedrich Stricker, Erik Hopkins, Maxwell Z. Wilson, and Javier Read de Alaniz

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Photochemical-induced phase transitions in photoactive semicrystalline polymers, Ruobing Bai, Eric Ocegueda, and Kaushik Bhattacharya

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Promoting the Furan Ring-Opening Reaction to Access New Donor-Acceptor Stenhouse Adducts with Hexafluoroisoproponal, Michèle Clerc, Friedrich Stricker, Sebastian Ulrich, Miranda Sroda, Nico Bruns, Luciano F. Boesel, and Javier Read de Alaniz

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Leaky cell model of hard spheres, Thomas G. Fai, Jamie M. Taylor, Epifanio G. Virga, Xiaoyu Zheng, and Peter Palffy-Muhoray

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Reversible Adhesion Switching Using Spiropyran Photoisomierization in a High Glass Transition Temperature Polymer, Thomas J. Gately, Wangxiang Li, Seyed Hossein Mostafavi, and Christopher J. Bardeen

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Effect of halogen substitution on energies and dynamics of reversible photomechanical crystals based on 9-anthracenecarboxylic acid, Thomas J. Gately, Watit Sontising, Connor J. Easley, Imadul Islam, Rabih O. Al-Kaysi, Gregory J. O. Beran, and Christopher J. Bardeen

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Impedance matching in an elastic actuator, Tianyi Guo, Xiaoyu Zheng, and Peter Palffy-Muhoray

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Light propagation in cholesteric liquid crystals: the role of chirality, Tianyi Guo, Xiaoyu Zheng, and Peter Palffy-Muhoray

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Not the garden hose instability: Wavelength selection in a buckling garden hose, Tianyi Guo, Xiaoyu Zheng, and Peter Palffy-Muhoray

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The Freedericksz Transition in a Spatially Varying Magnetic Field, Tianyi Guo, Xiaoyu Zheng, and Peter Palffy-Muhoray

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Analytical derivatives of the individual state energies in ensemble density functional theory. II. Implementation on graphical processing units (GPUs), Fang Liu, Michael Filatov, and Todd J. Martínez

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Using Small Molecule Absorbers to Create a Photothermal Wax Motor, Brandon F. Lui and Christopher J. Bardeen

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Correlating Reaction Dynamics and Size Change during the Photomechanical Transformation of 9-Methylanthracene Single Crystals, Kohei Morimoto, Daichi Kitagawa, Fei Tong, Kevin Chalek, Leonard J. Mueller, Christopher J. Bardeen, and Seiya Kobatake

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Voice-controlled quantum chemistry, Umberto Raucci, Alessio Valentini, Elisa Pieri, Hayley Weir, Stefan Seritan, and Todd J. Martínez

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In Silico Discovery of Multistep Chemistry Initiated by a Conical Intersection: The Challenging Case of Donor–Acceptor Stenhouse Adducts, David M. Sanchez, Umberto Raucci, and Todd J. Martínez

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Light-induced stress and work in photomechanical materials, Anastasiia Svanidze, Tianyi Guo, Xiaoyu Zheng, and Peter Palffy-Muhoray

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Cavity Volume and Free Energy in Many-Body Systems, Jamie M. Taylor, Thomas G. Fai, Epifanio G. Virga, Xiaoyu Zheng, and Peter Palffy-Muhoray

Submissions from 2020

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The Mechanics of the Bicycle Pedal Photoisomerization in Crystalline cis,cis-1,4-Diphenyl-1,3-butadiene, Cody R. Aldaz, Todd J. Martínez, and Paul M. Zimmerman

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Norbornadiene Chain-End Functional Polymers as Stable, Readily Available Precursors to Cyclopentadiene Derivatives, Sophia J. Bailey, Emre H. Discekici, Stephanie M. Barbon, Shay N. Nguyen, Craig J. Hawker, and Javier Read de Alaniz

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Photomechanical coupling in photoactive nematic elastomers, Ruobing Bai and Kaushik Bhattacharya

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Collective behavior in the kinetics and equilibrium of solid-state photoreaction, Ruobing Bai, Ying Shi Teh, and Kaushik Bhattacharya

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Bridging photochemistry and photomechanics with NMR crystallography: the molecular basis for the macroscopic expansion of an anthracene ester nanorod, Kevin R. Chalek, Xinning Dong, Fei Tong, Ryan A. Kudla, Lingyan Zhu, Adam D. Gill, Wenwen Xu, Chen Yang, Joshua D. Hartman, Alviclér Magalhães, Rabih O. A-Kaysi, Ryan C. Hayward, Richard J. Hooley, Gregory J. O. Beran, Christopher J. Bardeen, and Leonard J. Mueller

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Using light intensity to control reaction to kinetics and reversibility in photochemical crystals, Connor J. Easley, Fei Tong, Xinning Dong, Rabih O. Al-Kaysi, and Christopher J. Bardeen

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St. Petersburg Paradox and Failure Probability, Jake Fontana and Peter Palffy-Muhoray

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A nonlinear beam model of photomotile structures, Kevin Korner, Alexa S. Kuenstler, Ryan C. Hayward, Basile Audoly, and Kaushik Bhattacharya

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Blueprinting Photothermal Shape-Morphing of Liquid Crystal Elastomers, Alexa S. Kuenstler, Yuzhen Cheng, Phuong Bui, Hyunki Kim, Antonio DeSimone, Lihua Jin, and Ryan C. Hayward

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Reversible Actuation via Photoisomerization-Induced Melting of a Semicrystalline Poly(Azobenzene), Alexa S. Kuenstler, Kyle D. Clark, Javier Read de Alaniz, and Ryan C. Hayward

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Reconfiguring Gaussian Curvature of Hydrogel Sheets with Photoswitchable Host–Guest Interactions, Alexa S. Kuenstler, Markus Lahikainen, Hantao Zhou, Wenwen Xu, Arri Priimagi, and Ryan C. Hayward

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Mechanical Properties and Photomechanical Fatigue of Macro- and Nanodimensional Diarylethene Molecular Crystals, Thiranjeewa I. Lansakara, Fei Tong, Christopher J. Bardeen, and Alexei V. Tivanski

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Tunable Photothermal Actuation Enabled by Photoswitching of Donor–Acceptor Stenhouse Adducts, Jaejun Lee, Miranda M. Sroda, Younghoon Kwon, Sara El-Arid, Serena Seshadri, Luke F. Gockowski, Elliot W. Hawkes, Megan T. Valentine, and Javier Read de Alaniz

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Putting Photomechanical Switches to Work: An Ab Initio Multiple Spawning Study of Donor-Accepted Stenhouse Adducts, D. M. Martinez, U. Raucci, K. N. Ferreras, and Todd J. Martínez

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Measuring the five elastic constants of a nematic liquid crystal elastomer, Seung-Won Oh, Tianyi Guo, Alexa S. Kuenstler, Ryan C. Hayward, Peter Palffy-Muhoray, and Xiaoyu Zheng

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Self-regulating photochemical Rayleigh-Bénard convection using a highly-absorbing organic photoswitch, Serena Seshadri, Luke F. Gockowski, Jaejun Lee, Miranda Sroda, Matthew E. Helgeson, and Javier Read de Alaniz

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Donor-Acceptor Stenhouse Adducts: Exploring the Effects of Ionic Character, Miranda Sroda, Friedrich Stricker, Julie A. Peterson, Alexandria Bernal, and Javier Read de Alaniz

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Photomechanical molecular crystals and nanowire assemblies based on the [2+2] photodimerization of a phenylbutadiene derivative, Fei Tong, Wenwen Xu, Tianyi Guo, Brandon F. Lui, Ryan C. Hayward, Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Rabih O. Al-Kaysi, and Christopher J. Bardeen

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Nonadiabatic Dynamics Simulation of the Wavelength-Dependent Photochemistry of Azobenzene Excited to the nπ * and ππ* Excited States, Jimmy K. Yu, Christoph Bannwarth, Ruibin Liang, Edward G. Hohenstein, and Todd J. Martínez

Submissions from 2019

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Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Photon-Powered Actuators Based on Aligned Diarylethene Nanocrystals, Xinning Dong, Fei Tong, Kerry M. Hanson, Rabih O. Al-Kaysi, Daichi Kitagawa, Seiya Kobatake, and Christopher J. Bardeen

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Light intensity as mechanical potential: a symmetry-based approach, Tianyi Guo, Xiaoyu Zheng, and Peter Palffy-Muhoray

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Surface anchoring energy of cholesteric liquid crystals, Tianyi Guo, Xiaoyu Zheng, and Peter Palffy-Muhoray

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Multicolor Mechanochromism of a Polymer/Silica Composite with Dual Distinct Mechanophores, Takahiro Kosuge, Xiaolei Zhu, Vivian M. Lau, Daisuke Aoki, Todd J. Martinez, Jeffrey S. Moore, and Hideyuki Otsuka

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Light-induced shape morphing of thin films, Alexa S. Kuenstler and Ryan C. Hayward

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Liquid Crystal Elastomer Waveguide Actuators, Alexa S. Kuenstler, Hyunki Kim, and Ryan C. Hayward

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Unusual concentration dependence of the photoisomerization reaction in donor–acceptor Stenhouse adducts, Brandon F. Lui, Nathan T. Tierce, Fei Tong, Miranda M. Sroda, Hao Lu, Javier Read de Alaniz, and Christopher J. Bardeen

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Photoinduced Deadhesion of a Polymer Film Using a Photochromic Donor–Acceptor Stenhouse Adduct, Seyed Hossein Mostafavi, Wangxiang Li, Kyle D. Clark, Friedrich Stricker, Javier Read de Alaniz, and Christopher J. Bardeen

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Multiaddressable Photochromic Architectures: From Molecules to Materials, Hui Nie, Jeffrey L. Self, Alexa S. Kuenstler, Ryan C. Hayward, and Javier Read de Alaniz

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Norbornadienes: Robust and Scalable Building Blocks for Cascade “Click” Coupling of High Molecular Weight Polymers, Andre H. St. Amant, Emre H. Discekici, Sophia J. Bailey, Manuel S. Zayas, Jung-Ah Song, Shelby L. Shankel, Shay N. Nguyen, Morgan W. Bates, Athina Anastasaki, Craig J. Hawker, and Javier Read de Alaniz