Autonomous Materials Systems University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Mechanochemically Active Polymers

Research

Research

We seek to productively utilize mechanically-induced chemical reactivity to design polymers and polymer composite materials with the ability to locally alter their properties in response to mechanical fields.

• Biasing Reaction Pathways with Mechanical Force

• Force-Induced Activation of Covalent Bonds in Polymers

• The Future: Self-Sensing and Self-Healing Polymers

Autonomous Materials Systems - Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign