Photoclick chemistry: a bright idea

BD Fairbanks, LJ Macdougall, S Mavila, J Sinha… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
At its basic conceptualization, photoclick chemistry embodies a collection of click reactions
that are performed via the application of light. The emergence of this concept has had …

Microspheres from light—a sustainable materials platform

L Delafresnaye, F Feist, JP Hooker… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Driven by the demand for highly specialized polymeric materials via milder, safer, and
sustainable processes, we herein introduce a powerful, purely light driven platform for …

Near infrared light induced radical polymerization in water

P Neidinger, J Davis, D Voll… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We introduce a gold nanorod (AuNR) driven methodology to induce free radical
polymerization in water with near infrared light (800 nm). The process exploits photothermal …

Direct Visualization of Homogeneous Chemical Distribution in Functional Polyradical Microspheres

JA Kammerer, F Feist, D Ryklin, A Sarkar… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
It is demonstrated that the postfunctionalization of solid polymeric microspheres can
generate fully and throughout functionalized materials, contrary to the expectation that core …

Using Nitroxides to Enhance Carbon Fiber Interfacial Adhesion and as an Anchor for “Graft to” Surface Modification Strategies

DJ Eyckens, JL Adcock, JP Blinco… - Macromolecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Nitroxide groups covalently grafted to carbon fibers are used as anchoring sites for TEMPO‐
terminated polymers (poly‐n‐butylacrylate and polystyrene) in a “graft to” surface …

Light-induced Ligation of o-Quinodimethanes with Gated Fluorescence Self-reporting

F Feist, LL Rodrigues, SL Walden… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We introduce a highly efficient photoligation system, affording a pro-fluorescent Diels–Alder
product that, on demand, converts into an intensively fluorescent naphthalene via E1 …

Facile “one-pot” preparation of phosphonate functional polythiophene based microsphere via Friedel-Crafts reaction for selective enrichment of phosphopeptides from …

R Tang, J Zhou, X Li, Y Yu, S Ma, J Ou - Analytica Chimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
A novel kind of phosphonate functionalized polythiophene microsphere was designed and
fabricated via Friedel-Crafts reaction. Diethyl (thiophen-2-ylmethyl) phosphonate (DTYP) …

Monodisperse styrene-maleic anhydride-isoprene terpolymer microspheres with tunable crosslinking density prepared by self-stabilized precipitation polymerization

C Xu, C Chen, J Jiang, C Zhao, Y Ma… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Synthesis and industrial production of functional monodisperse microspheres still face
enormous challenges like precise size control and process simplification. Herein, a strategy …

One‐Step Synthesis of Fluorescent Poly (divinylbenzene) Particles without Fluorescent Monomers

TC Bicak, M Garnier, M Sabbah… - Macromolecular Rapid …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A simple and cost‐efficient method for fluorescent microsphere synthesis, which does not
require any fluorescent monomers or modification steps to incorporate fluorescent moieties …

Chemiluminescent read-out of degradable fluorescent polymer particles

L Delafresnaye, JP Hooker, CW Schmitt… - …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The design of chemiluminescent degradable particles is largely an unexplored field. We,
herein, pioneer self-reporting chemiluminescent microspheres, allowing one to readily …