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 …

Fluorescence turn-on by photoligation–bright opportunities for soft matter materials

VX Truong, JO Holloway, C Barner-Kowollik - Chemical Science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Photochemical ligation has become an indispensable tool for applications that require
spatially addressable functionalisation, both in biology and materials science. Interestingly …

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 …

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 …

Fluorescent and Catalytically Active Single Chain Nanoparticles

PH Maag, F Feist, H Frisch, PW Roesky… - …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Fluorescent and catalytically active single chain nanoparticle (SCNP) systems allow for the
visualization and tracing of the catalyst's distribution in a reaction system. We herein report a …

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 …

The bright and the dark side of the sphere: light-stabilized microparticles

CW Schmitt, SL Walden, L Delafresnaye… - Polymer …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Visible light-triggered reversible triazolinedione (TAD) chemistry was already reported in the
1970s but it has only recently been introduced into the field of materials science, and as …

Photo-induced synthesis of polymeric nanoparticles and chemiluminescent degradable materials via flow chemistry

JO Holloway, L Delafresnaye, EM Cameron… - Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
We report the photo-induced, additive-free, continuous synthesis of polymeric particles using
flow chemistry. Not only can these particles be formed under ambient conditions in a solely …

Regioisomerism in symmetric dimethyl dialdehydes dictates their photochemical reactivity

F Feist, LL Rodrigues, SL Walden… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We herein report the first light-driven selective monoderivatization (desymmetrization) of two
chemically equivalent carbonyl groups in a single chromophore. By comparing of four …

The Vibrant Interplay of Light and Self‐Reporting Macromolecular Architectures

CM Geiselhart, H Mutlu - Macromolecular Chemistry and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Inspired by nature, notable efforts have been made towards the exploration of self‐reporting
polymers within the last decades. Whereas the majority of the previously reported self …