Piezocatalysis and piezo‐photocatalysis: catalysts classification and modification strategy, reaction mechanism, and practical application

S Tu, Y Guo, Y Zhang, C Hu, T Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Piezoelectric‐based catalysis that relies on the charge energy or separation efficiency of
charge carriers has attracted significant attention. The piezo‐potential induced by strain or …

Ultrasonics in polymer science: applications and challenges

ARSS Kumar, A Padmakumar, U Kalita… - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ultrasonic waves in a liquid media generate both chemical and mechanistic effects that are
actively used to perform chemical reactions, polymer synthesis, nanoparticle synthesis …

Precision polymer synthesis by controlled radical polymerization: Fusing the progress from polymer chemistry and reaction engineering

YN Zhou, JJ Li, TT Wang, YY Wu, ZH Luo - Progress in Polymer Science, 2022 - Elsevier
During the first 100 years of polymer science, controlled radical polymerization (also
recommended as reversible deactivation radical polymerization) is undoubtedly a …

Electro‐Mechanochemical Atom Transfer Radical Cyclizations using Piezoelectric BaTiO3

C Schumacher, JG Hernández… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The formation and regeneration of active CuI species is a fundamental mechanistic step in
copper‐catalyzed atom transfer radical cyclizations (ATRC). Typically, the presence of the …

Advances in polymerizations modulated by external stimuli

AM Doerr, JM Burroughs, SR Gitter, X Yang… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Synthetic polymer chemistry endeavors to imitate the spatial and temporal control exhibited
within biological systems to obtain well-defined polymeric materials with unique structures …

Solid-state molecular oxygen activation using ball milling and a piezoelectric material for aerobic oxidation of thiols

G Wang, J Jia, Y He, D Wei, M Song, L Zhang, G Li… - RSC …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The agitation of BaTiO3 via ball milling converts mechanical energy into electrical energy,
leading to the reduction of molecular oxygen via a single electron transfer pathway …

[HTML][HTML] Mixed polymer brushes for “smart” surfaces

M Li, CW Pester - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Mixed polymer brushes (MPBs) are composed of two or more disparate polymers covalently
tethered to a substrate. The resulting phase segregated morphologies have been …

Riboflavin-induced metal-free ATRP of (meth) acrylates

I Zaborniak, P Chmielarz, K Wolski - European Polymer Journal, 2020 - Elsevier
Metal-free ATRP approach was improved by eliminating undesirable organic photocatalyst
from the reaction medium by an application of a fully-biocompatible riboflavin (vitamin B 2) …

Ultrasound-Assisted RAFT polymerization in a continuous flow method

AK Padmakumar, NK Singha, M Ashokkumar… - …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Developments in nanomolecular engineering in the last 20 years have led to the
development of technology that uses ultrasonic irradiation in initiating the polymerization …