2021
Bailey, Sophia J., Friedrich Stricker, Erik Hopkins, Maxwell Z. Wilson, Javier Read de Alaniz. 2021. "Shining Light on Cyclopentadienone-Norbornadiene Diels-Alder Adducts to Enable Photoinduced Click Chemistry with Cyclopentadiene." ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 13 (30): 35422-35430, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c08670.
Bai, Ruobing, Eric Ocegueda, Kaushik Bhattacharya. 2021. "Photochemical-induced phase transitions in photoactive semicrystalline polymers." Physical Review E 103, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.103.033003, https://scholarworks.umass.edu/muri_pubs/39/.
Clerc, Michèle, Friedrich Stricker, Sebastian Ulrich, Miranda Sroda, Nico Bruns, Luciano F. Boesel, Javier Read de Alaniz. 2021. "Promoting the Furan Ring-Opening Reaction to Access New Donor-Acceptor Stenhouse Adducts with Hexafluoroisoproponal." Angewandte Chemie International Edition 60: 10219-10227, https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202100115, https://scholarworks.umass.edu/muri_pubs/30/.
Fai, Thomas G., Jamie M. Taylor, Epifanio G. Virga, Xiaoyu Zheng, Peter Palffy-Muhoray. 2021. "Leaky cell model of hard spheres." The Journal of Chemical Physics 154 (10), https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0037442, https://scholarworks.umass.edu/muri_pubs/32/.
Gately, Thomas J., Wangxiang Li, Seyed Hossein Mostafavi, Christopher J. Bardeen. 2021. "Reversible Adhesion Switching Using Spiropyran Photoisomerization in a High Glass Transition Temperature Polymer." Macromolecules 54 (20): 9319-9326, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.1c01262.
Gately, Thomas J., Watit Sontising, Connor J. Easley, Imadul Islam, Rabih O. Al-Kaysi, Gregory J. O. Beran, Christopher J. Bardeen. 2021. "Effect of halogen substitution of reversible photomechanical crystals based on 9-anthracenecarboxylic acid." CrystEngComm 34, https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CE00846C.
Guo, Tianyi, Xiaoyu Zheng, Peter Palffy-Muhoray. 2021. "Impedance matching in an elastic actuator." Soft Matter 17: 4191-4194, https://doi.org/10.1039/D1SM00132A, https://scholarworks.umass.edu/muri_pubs/37.
Guo, Tianyi Xiaoyu Zheng, Peter Palffy-Muhoray. 2021. "Light propagation in cholesteric liquid crystals: the role of chirality." Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals 713 (1), https://doi.org/10.1080/15421406.2020.1856534.
Guo, Tianyi, Xiaoyu Zheng, Peter Palffy-Muhoray. 2021. "Not the garden hose instability: Wavelength selection in a buckling garden hose." American Journal of Physics 89 (575), https://doi.org/10.1119/10.0003819.
Guo, Tianyi, Xiaoyu Zheng, Peter Palffy-Muhoray. 2021. "The Freedericksz Transition in a Spatially Varying Magnetic Field." Crystals 11 (5), https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst11050541, https://scholarworks.umass.edu/muri_pubs/35/.
Liu, Fang, Michael Filatov, Todd J. Martínez. 2021. "Analytical derivatives of the individual state energies in ensemble density functional theory. II. Implementation on graphical processing units (GPUs)." The Journal of Chemical Physics 154 (10), https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0041389.
Lui, Brandon F., Christopher J. Bardeen. 2021. "Using Small Molecule Absorbers to Create a Photothermal Wax Motor." Small, https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202105356.
Morimoto, Kohei, Daichi Kitagawa, Fei Tong, Kevin Chalek, Leonard J. Mueller, Christopher J. Bardeen, Seiya Kobatake. 2021. "Correlating Reaction Dynamics and Size Change during the Photomechanical Transformation of 9-Methylanthracene Single Crystals." Angewandte Chemie International Edition 61 (2). https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202114089.
Raucci, Umberto, Alessio Valentini, Elisa Pieri, Hayley Weir, Stefan Seritan, Todd J. Martínez. 2021. "Voice-controlled quantum chemistry." Nature Computational Science 1: 42-45, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-020-00012-9.
Sanchez, David M., Umberto Raucci, Todd J. Martínez. 2021. "In Silico Discovery of Multistep Chemistry Initiated by a Conical IntersectionL The Challenging Case of Donor-Acceptor Stenhouse Adducts." Journal of the American Chemical Society 143 (48): 20015-20021, https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c06648.
Svanidze, Anastasiia, Tianyi Guo, Xiaoyu Zheng, Peter Palffy-Muhoray. 2021. "Light-induced stress and work in photomechanical materials." Physical Review E 103 (5), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.103.L051002, https://scholarworks.umass.edu/muri_pubs/36/.
Taylor, Jamie M., Thomas G. Fai, Epifanio G. Virga, Xiaoyu Zheng, Peter Palffy-Muhoray. 2021. "Cavity Volume and Free Energy in Many-Body Systems." Journal of Nonlinear Science 31, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00332-021-09744-y.
2020
Aldaz, Cody R., Todd J. Martínez, Paul M. Zimmerman. 2020. "The Mechanics of the Bicycle Pedal Photoisomerization in Crystalline cis,cis-1,4-Diphenyl-1,3-butadiene." The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 124 (43): 8897-8906, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.0c05803, https://scholarworks.umass.edu/muri_pubs/25/.
Bailey, Sophia J., Emre H. Discekici, Stephanie M. Barbon, Shay N. Nguyen, Craig J. Hawker, Javier Read de Alaniz. 2020. "Norbornadiene Chain-End Functional Polymers as Stable, Readily Available Precursors to Cyclopentadiene Derivatives." Macromolecules 53 (12): 4917-4924, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.0c00967.
Bai, Ruobing, Kaushik Bhattacharya. 2020. "Photomechanical coupling in photoactive nematic elastomers." Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 144, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2020.104115, https://scholarworks.umass.edu/muri_pubs/11/.
Bai, Ruobing, Ying Shi Teh, Kaushik Bhattacharya. 2020. "Collective behavior in the kinetics and equilibrium of solid-state photoreaction." Extreme Mechanics Letters 43, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2020.101160.
Chalek, Kevin R., Xinning Dong, Fei Tong, Ryan A. Kudla, Lingyan Zhu, Adam D. Gill, Wenwen Xu, et al. 2020. "Bridging photochemistry and photomechanics with NMR crystallography: the molecular basis for the macroscopic expansion of an anthracene ester nanorod." Chemical Science, https://doi.org/10.1039/D0SC05118G, https://scholarworks.umass.edu/muri_pubs/23/.
Easley, Connor J., Fei Tong, Xinning Dong, Rabih O. Al-Kaysi, Christopher J. Bardeen. 2020. "Using light intensity to control reaction to kinetics and reversibility in photochemical crystals." Chemical Science 11: 9852-9862, https://doi.org/10.1039/D0SC03557B, https://scholarworks.umass.edu/muri_pubs/10/.
Fontana, Jake, Peter Palffy-Muhoray. 2020. "St. Petersburg Paradox and Failure Probability." Physical Review Letters 124 (24), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.245501, https://scholarworks.umass.edu/muri_pubs/12/.
Korner, Kevin, Alexa S. Kuenstler, Ryan C. Hayward, Basile Audoly, Kaushik Bhattacharya. 2020. "A nonlinear beam model of photomotile structures." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (18): 9762-9770, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915374117, https://scholarworks.umass.edu/muri_pubs/20/.
Kuenstler, Alexa S., Yuzhen Cheng, Phuong Bui, Hyunki Kim, Antonio DeSimone, Lihua Jin, Ryan C. Hayward. 2020. "Blueprinting Photothermal Shape-Morphing of Liquid Crystal Elastomers." Advanced Materials 32 (17), https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202000609, https://scholarworks.umass.edu/muri_pubs/18/.
Kuenstler, Alexa S., Kyle D. Clark, Javier Read de Alaniz, Ryan C. Hayward. 2020. "Reversible Actuation via Photoisomerization-Induced Melting of a Semicrystalline Poly(Azobenzene)." ACS Macro Letters 9 (6): 902-909, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmacrolett.0c00328, https://scholarworks.umass.edu/muri_pubs/22/.
Kuenstler, Alexa S., Markus Lahikainen, Hantao Zhou, Wenwen Xu, Arri Priimagi, Ryan C. Hayward. 2020. "Reconfiguring Gaussian Curvature of Hydrogel Sheets with Photoswitchable Host-Guest Interactions." ACS Macro Letters 9 (8): 1172-1177, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmacrolett.0c00469, https://scholarworks.umass.edu/muri_pubs/15/.
Lansakara, Thiranjeewa I., Fei Tong, Christopher J. Bardeen, Alexei V. Tivanski. 2020. "Mechanical Properties and Photomechanical Fatigue of Macro- and Nanodimensional Diarylethene Molecular Crystals." Nano Letters 20 (9): 6744-6749, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c02631.
Lee, Jaejun, Miranda M. Sroda, Younghoon Kwon, Sara El-Arid, Serena Seshradi, Luke F. Gockowski, Elliot W. Hawkes, et al. 2020. "Tunable Photothermal Actuation Enabled by Photoswitching of Donor-Acceptor Stenhouse Adducts." ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 12 (48): 54075-54082, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c15116.
Martinez, D.M., U. Raucci, K.N. Ferreras, Todd J. Martínez. 2020. "Putting Photochemical Switches to Work: An Ab Initio Multiple Spawning Study of Donor-Accepted Stenhouse Adducts." The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 11 (18): 7901-7907, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c02401, https://scholarworks.umass.edu/muri_pubs/26/.
Oh, Seung-Won, Tianyi Guo, Alexa S. Kuenstler, Ryan C. Hayward, Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Xiaoyu Zheng. 2020. "Measuing the five elastic constants of a nematic liquied crystal elastomer." Liquid Crystals, https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2020.1790680.
Seshradi, Serena, Luke F. Gockowski, Jaejun Lee, Miranda Sroda, Matthew E. Helgeson, Javier Read de Alaniz. 2020. "Self-regulating photochemical Rayleigh-Bénard convection using a highly-absorbing organic photoswitch." Nature Communications 11, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16277-7, https://scholarworks.umass.edu/muri_pubs/21/.
Sroda, Miranda, Friedrich Stricker, Julie A. Peterson, Alexandria Bernal, Javier Read de Alaniz. 2020. "Donor-Acceptor Stenhouse Adducts: Exploring the Effects of Ionic Character." Chemistry - A European Journal 27, https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202005110.
Tong, Fei, Wenwen Xu, Tianyi Guo, Brandon F. Lui, Ryan C. Hayward, Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Rabih O. Al-Kayi, et al. 2020. "Photomechanical molecular crystals and nanowire assemblies based on the [2+2] photodimerization of a phenylbutadiene derivative." Journal of Materials Chemistry C 8: 5036-5044, https://doi.org/10.1039/C9TC06946A.
Yu, Jimmy K., Christoph Bannwarth, Ruibin Liang, Edward G. Hohenstein, Todd J. Martínez. 2020. "Nondiabatic Dynamics Simulation of the Wavelength-Dependent Photochemistry of Azobenzene Excited to the nπ* and ππ* Excited States." Journal of the American Chemical Society 142 (49): 20680-20690. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c09056, https://scholarworks.umass.edu/muri_pubs/33/.
2019
Dong, Xinning, Fei Tong, Kerry M. Hanson, Rabih O. Al-Kaysi, Daichi Kitagawa, Seiya Kobatake, Christopher J. Bardeen. 2019. "Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Photon-Powered Actuators Based on Aligned Diarylethene Nanocrystals." Chemistry of Materials 31 (3): 1016-1022, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b04568.
Guo, Tianyi, Xiaoyu Zheng, Peter Palffy-Muhoray. 2019. "Light intensity as mechanical potential: a symmetry-based approach." Liquid Crystals 46 (13-14): 2094-2101. https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2019.1651916.
Guo, Tianyi, Xiaoyu Zheng, Peter Palffy-Muhoray. 2019. "Surface anchoring energy of cholesteric liquid crystals." Liquid Crystals 47 (4): 477-480. https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2019.1660425, https://scholarworks.umass.edu/muri_pubs/9/.
Kosuge, Takahiro, Xiaolei Shu, Vivian M. Lau, Daisuke Aoki, Todd J. Martínez, Jeffrey S. Moore, Hideyuki Otsuka. 2019. "Multicolor Mechanochromism of a Polymer/Silica Composite with Dual Distinct Mechanophores." Journal of the American Chemical Society 141 (5): 1898-1902. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b13310.
Kuenstler, Alexa S., Ryan C. Hayward. 2019. "Light-inducted shape morphing of thin films." Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science 40: 70-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cocis.2019.01.009, https://scholarworks.umass.edu/muri_pubs/3/.
Kuenstler, Alexa S., Hyunki Kim, Ryan C. Hayward. 2019. "Liquid Crystal Elastomer Waveguide Actuators." Advanced Materials 31 (24). https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201901216 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/muri_pubs/5/.
Lui, Brandon F., Nathan T. Tierce, Fei Tong, Miranda M. Sroda, Hao Lu, Javier Read de Alaniz, Christopher J. Bardeen. 2019. "Unusual concentration dependence of the photoisomerization reaction in donor-acceptor Stenhouse adducts." Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences 6. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9PP00130A.
Mostafavi, Seyed Hossein, Wangxiang Li, Kyle D. Clark, Friedrich Stricker, Javier Read de Alaniz, Christopher J. Bardeen. 2019. "Photoinduced Deadhesion of a Polymer Film Using a Photochromic Donor-Acceptor Stenhouse Adduct." Macromolecules 52 (16): 6311-6317. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.9b00882
Nie, Hui, Jeffrey L. Self, Alexa S. Kuenstler, Ryan C. Hayward, Javier Read de Alaniz. 2019. "Multiaddressable Photochromic Architectures: From Molecules to Materials."Advanced Optical Materials 7. https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.201900224, https://scholarworks.umass.edu/muri_pubs/17/.
St. Amant, Andre H., Emre H. Discekici, Sophia J. Bailey, Manuel S. Zayas, Jung-Ah Song, Shelby L. Shankel, Shay N. Nguyen, et al. 2019. “Norbornadienes: Robust and Scalable Building Blocks for Cascade ‘Click’ Coupling of High Molecular Weight Polymers.” Journal of the American Chemical Society 141 (34): 13619–24. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b06328https://scholarworks.umass.edu/muri_pubs/8/.
Submissions from 2022
Formation of rolls from liquid crystal elastomer bistrips, Yuzhen Chen, Alexa S. Kuenstler, Ryan C. Hayward, and Lihua Jin
Chiral photochemistry of achiral molecules, Umberto Raucci, Hayley Weir, Christoph Bannwarth, David M. Sanchez, and Todd J. Martínez
Bringing chemical structures to life with augmented reality, machine learning, and quantum chemistry, Sukolsak Sakshuwong, Hayley Weir, Umberto Raucci, and Todd J. Martínez
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
Submissions from 2021
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
Photochemical-induced phase transitions in photoactive semicrystalline polymers, Ruobing Bai, Eric Ocegueda, and Kaushik Bhattacharya
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
Leaky cell model of hard spheres, Thomas G. Fai, Jamie M. Taylor, Epifanio G. Virga, Xiaoyu Zheng, and Peter Palffy-Muhoray
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
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
Impedance matching in an elastic actuator, Tianyi Guo, Xiaoyu Zheng, and Peter Palffy-Muhoray
Light propagation in cholesteric liquid crystals: the role of chirality, Tianyi Guo, Xiaoyu Zheng, and Peter Palffy-Muhoray
Not the garden hose instability: Wavelength selection in a buckling garden hose, Tianyi Guo, Xiaoyu Zheng, and Peter Palffy-Muhoray
The Freedericksz Transition in a Spatially Varying Magnetic Field, Tianyi Guo, Xiaoyu Zheng, and Peter Palffy-Muhoray
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
Using Small Molecule Absorbers to Create a Photothermal Wax Motor, Brandon F. Lui and Christopher J. Bardeen
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
Voice-controlled quantum chemistry, Umberto Raucci, Alessio Valentini, Elisa Pieri, Hayley Weir, Stefan Seritan, and Todd J. Martínez
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
Light-induced stress and work in photomechanical materials, Anastasiia Svanidze, Tianyi Guo, Xiaoyu Zheng, and Peter Palffy-Muhoray
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
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
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
Photomechanical coupling in photoactive nematic elastomers, Ruobing Bai and Kaushik Bhattacharya
Collective behavior in the kinetics and equilibrium of solid-state photoreaction, Ruobing Bai, Ying Shi Teh, and Kaushik Bhattacharya
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
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
St. Petersburg Paradox and Failure Probability, Jake Fontana and Peter Palffy-Muhoray
A nonlinear beam model of photomotile structures, Kevin Korner, Alexa S. Kuenstler, Ryan C. Hayward, Basile Audoly, and Kaushik Bhattacharya
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
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
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
Mechanical Properties and Photomechanical Fatigue of Macro- and Nanodimensional Diarylethene Molecular Crystals, Thiranjeewa I. Lansakara, Fei Tong, Christopher J. Bardeen, and Alexei V. Tivanski
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
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
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
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
Donor-Acceptor Stenhouse Adducts: Exploring the Effects of Ionic Character, Miranda Sroda, Friedrich Stricker, Julie A. Peterson, Alexandria Bernal, and Javier Read de Alaniz
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
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
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
Light intensity as mechanical potential: a symmetry-based approach, Tianyi Guo, Xiaoyu Zheng, and Peter Palffy-Muhoray
Surface anchoring energy of cholesteric liquid crystals, Tianyi Guo, Xiaoyu Zheng, and Peter Palffy-Muhoray
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
Light-induced shape morphing of thin films, Alexa S. Kuenstler and Ryan C. Hayward
Liquid Crystal Elastomer Waveguide Actuators, Alexa S. Kuenstler, Hyunki Kim, and Ryan C. Hayward
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
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
Multiaddressable Photochromic Architectures: From Molecules to Materials, Hui Nie, Jeffrey L. Self, Alexa S. Kuenstler, Ryan C. Hayward, and Javier Read de Alaniz
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