Bioorthogonal chemistry for prodrug activation in vivo

Q Fu, S Shen, P Sun, Z Gu, Y Bai, X Wang… - Chemical Society …, 2023‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Prodrugs have emerged as a major strategy for addressing clinical challenges by improving
drug pharmacokinetics, reducing toxicity, and enhancing treatment efficacy. The emergence …

The chemical recycling of polyesters for a circular plastics economy: challenges and emerging opportunities

J Payne, MD Jones - ChemSusChem, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Whilst plastics have played an instrumental role in human development, growing
environmental concerns have led to increasing public scrutiny and demands for outright …

Mechanochemical tools for polymer materials

Y Chen, G Mellot, D van Luijk, C Creton… - Chemical Society …, 2021‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Mechanochemistry provides a unique approach to investigate macroscopic deformation,
failure and healing of polymer materials. The development of mechanophores–molecular …

Force-controlled release of small molecules with a rotaxane actuator

L Chen, R Nixon, G De Bo - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Force-controlled release of small molecules offers great promise for the delivery of drugs
and the release of healing or reporting agents in a medical or materials context,–. In polymer …

Covalent mechanochemistry and contemporary polymer network chemistry: A marriage in the making

EM Lloyd, JR Vakil, Y Yao, NR Sottos… - Journal of the American …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Over the past 20 years, the field of polymer mechanochemistry has amassed a toolbox of
mechanophores that translate mechanical energy into a variety of functional responses …

Toughening hydrogels through force-triggered chemical reactions that lengthen polymer strands

Z Wang, X Zheng, T Ouchi, TB Kouznetsova, HK Beech… - Science, 2021‏ - science.org
The utility and lifetime of materials made from polymer networks, including hydrogels,
depend on their capacity to stretch and resist tearing. In gels and elastomers, those …

Mechanochemical bond scission for the activation of drugs

S Huo, P Zhao, Z Shi, M Zou, X Yang, E Warszawik… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Pharmaceutical drug therapy is often hindered by issues caused by poor drug selectivity,
including unwanted side effects and drug resistance. Spatial and temporal control over drug …

The many flavours of mechanochemistry and its plausible conceptual underpinnings

RT O'Neill, R Boulatov - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2021‏ - nature.com
Mechanochemistry describes diverse phenomena in which mechanical load affects
chemical reactivity. The fuzziness of this definition means that it includes processes as …

100th Anniversary of macromolecular science viewpoint: Toward catalytic chemical recycling of waste (and future) plastics

JC Worch, AP Dove - ACS Macro Letters, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
The current global materials economy has long been inefficient due to unproductive reuse
and recycling efforts. Within the wider materials portfolio, plastics have been revolutionary to …

The role of polymer mechanochemistry in responsive materials and additive manufacturing

MA Ghanem, A Basu, R Behrou, N Boechler… - Nature Reviews …, 2021‏ - nature.com
The use of mechanical forces to chemically transform polymers dates back decades. In
recent years, the use of mechanochemistry to direct constructive transformations in polymers …