See the Force (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

See the Force

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This shows progressive images of a mechanophore linked elastomer during tensile loading. After the polymer reaches a critical strain, a force-induced red color results from selective covalent bond cleavage in the mechanophore just prior to failure.

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Beckman Institute ITG, Darren Stevenson and Alex Jerez

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