K. Floyd, J.D. Batteas, E. Nwoye, J.R. Felts, P. Gonzalez, L. Mella, An Exchangeable Multicomponent Ball-Milling Reactor System (aka EMBRS). US Provisional Patent Application #63/749,494, January 25, 2025.
J.R. Felts, J.D. Batteas, E. Nwoye, H.C. Davila, Mechanochemical Ball Mill Reactor Jar with Integrated Force Measurement. US Provisional Patent Application #63/559,419, February 29, 2024.
J.R. Felts, J.D. Batteas, S. Raghuraman and T. Reyes, Method and Device for Quantitative Control of Force in Mechanochemical Reactions. US Patent 10,894,243, Issued 1/19/2021.
K.R. Floyd, E.C. Nwoye, P.V. Gonzalez, J.R. Felts, and J.D. Batteas, “Force Activated Autocatalysis in a Knoevenagel Condensation Reaction During Ball Milling,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 148 (2026), 29697–29709.
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c23405I. Speight, J. Mack, "Moving Mechanochemistry Forward: Accelerating and Tuning Organic Synthesis by Mechanochemistry," RSC Mechanochem. 3 (2026), 9-14.
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S. Kumar, R.W. Carpick and A. Martini, "Classical Potential-Based Framework for Modeling Mechanochemical Reactivity via Molecular Distortion: Demonstration for a Diels-Alder Reaction," RSC Mechanochem. 3 (2026), 224-234.
DOI: 10.1039/D5MR00099HS. Shah, T. Tran, T. Dao, A. Garza, M. M. Mokhtar, K. Floyd, L. Mella, J. Batteas, J. Mack, "Scratching Beneath the Surface: Catalyst Evolution and Reusability in the Direct Mechanocatalytic Sonogashira Reaction," RSC Mechanochem. 3 (2026), 46-55. DOI: 10.1039/D5MR00060B
DOI: 10.1039/D6MR90002J (Cover) RSC Mechanochem. 3 (2026), 2-2.
D.L. Smith, K. Floyd, M.J. Karim, J.D. Batteas and J.C. Grunlan, "Vibratory Ball Milling of Solid State Flame Retardant Polyelectrolyte Complex for Use in Polymer Emulsions," submitted to Macromol. Rapid Commun. 46 (2025) e00442.
DOI: 10.1002/marc.202500442J. Batteas and T. Friščić, “Shaken, not Stirred: Procedures in Mechanochemical Syntheses and How to Define Them,” RSC Mechanochemistry 2 (2025) 175-177. (Editorial)
E. Nwoye, K. Floyd, J.D. Batteas, and J. Felts, "Experimental Quantification of Impact Force and Energy for Mechanical Activation in Vibratory Ball Mills," RSC Mechanochem. 2 (2025) 911-922.
DOI: 10.1039/d5mr00059a
K.R. Floyd, L.S. Mella, R. Kwok, E.J. Broker,Jr., M. Marianski, T. Friščić, and J.D. Batteas, "Harnessing the Copper Surface for Direct Mechanocatalysis: A Case Study on Mechanochemical Sulfonylurea Synthesis," Chem. Sci. 16 (2025) 19830-19842.
DOI: 10.1039/D5SC04099JE.A. Riesel, Z. Fang, D.H. Fabini, A.B. Altman, Y. Meng, S.K. Ghose, M.L. Whitaker, C. Park, D.Y. Popov, A.M. Rappe, and D.E. Freedman, "Planar Defect Layers Template a High-Pressure InBi Polymorph," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 147 (2025) 26496-26505.
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C.K. Badding, E.A. Riesel, R.A. Murphy, D. Puggioni, D. Popov, G. Fabbris, D. Haskel, A.B. Altman, and D.E. Freedman, "MnBi2 is a Permanent Magnet," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 147 (2025) 25129-25135.
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I.R. Speight, K.J. Ardila-Fierro, J.G. Hernández, F. Emmerling, A.A.L. Michalchuk, F. García, E. Colacino and J. Mack, "Ball Milling for Mechanochemical Reactions," Nat. Rev. Methods Primers 5, 29 (2025) s43586-025-00401-2.
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C. Qu, L. Fang, R.W. Carpick, "Contact Mechanics Correction of Activation Volume in Mechanochemistry," Phy. Rev. B. (2025) 195405.
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S. Kumar, D. Button-Jennings, T.P. Hanusa, A. Martini, "Solvent Influence on the Mechanism of a Mechanochemical Metal-Halide Metathesis Reaction," RSC Mechanochemistry, (2025) 218. (published online)
DOI: 10.1039/D4MR00136BM.G. Sensoy, S. Qin, Z. Jiang, M.P. deBoer, R.W. Carpick, A.M. Rappe, "First-Principles Investigation of Surface Mechanochemistry of Transition Metal Phosphides Under Oxygen and Benzene Atmospheres," ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces., 17, 15 (2025) 23295-23307.
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N. Hawthorne, E.J. Broker, Yutian Bao, Sayan Banerjee, Quentarius Moore, C. Cardinal, J. Ha, U. Braga, A.M. Rappe and J.D. Batteas, "Studies of the Mechanically Induced Reactivity of Graphene with Water Using a 2D-Materials Strain Reactor," Mater. Horiz., 12 (2025) 1179-1188. (Named a 2025 Hot Paper.)
DOI: 10.1039/D4MH01360CJ. Batteas, K. Blank, E. Colacino, F. Emmerling, T. Friščić, J. Mack, J. Moore, M.E. Rivas and W. Tysoe, “Moving Mechanochemistry Forward,” RSC Mechanochemistry 2 (2025) 10 – 19. (Editorial)
J. Cobena-Reyes, F.H. Bhuiyan, and A. Martini, "Atomistic Simulations of Mechanically Activated Reactions for Oxygen Release from Polymers," RSC Mechanochemistry, 1 (2024) 361-366.
DOI: 10.1039/D4MR0004H
K. Floyd, L. Gonnet, T. Friščić and J.D. Batteas, "The Role of the Milling Environment on the Copper-Catalysed Mechanochemical Synthesis of Tolbutamide," RSC Mechanochemistry 1 (2024) 289-295.
DOI: 10.1039/D4MR00031EJ. Li, Y. Wang, S. Saha, Z. Chen, J. Misleh, K.W. Chapman, J.A. Reimer, M.R. Filip, H.I. Karunadasa, "3D Lead-Organoselenide-Halide Perovskites and their Mixed-Chalcogenide and Mixed-Halide Alloys," Angewandte Chemie, Int. Ed. (2024) e202408443.
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E.J. Broker, K. Floyd, J. Batteas, "In Situ Energy Dispersive X-Ray Diffraction Achieved in Twin Screw Extrusion," Chem. 10, 11 (2024) 3268-70.
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S.R. Garcia, Y.S. Zholdassov, A.B. Braunschweig and A. Martini, "Reactive Simulations of Silica Functionalization with Aromatic Hydrocarbons," Langmuir 40, 1 (2023) 561-567.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c02785S. Banerjee, N. Hawthorne, J.D. Batteas and A.M Rappe, "Two-legged Molecular Walker and Curvature: Mechanochemical Migration on Graphene," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 145 (2023) 26765-26773.
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c08850
E. Nwoye, S. Raghuraman, M. Costales, J.D. Batteas and J.R. Felts, "Mechanistic Model for Quantifying the Effect of Impact Force on Mechanochemical Reactivity," PhysChemChemPhys 25 (2023) 29088-29097.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c02785Y.S. Zholdassov, L. Yuan, S. Romero Garcia, R.W. Kwok, A. Boscoboinik, D.J. Valles, M. Marianski, A. Martini, R. Carpick and A.B. Braunschweig, "Acceleration of Diels-Alder Reactions by Mechanical Distortion," Science 380 (2023) 1053-1058.
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S. Banerjee and A.M. Rappe, "Mechanochemical Molecular Motion Using Noncovalent Interactions on Graphene and Its Applications in Tailoring Adsorption Energetics," ACS Materials Letters 5 (2023) 574-579.
DOI: 10.1021/acsmaterialslett.2c01021L. Pang, S. Korres, W.A. Lamberti, M.N. Webster and R.W. Carpick, "What Stress Components Drive Mechanochemistry? A Study of ZDDP Triboflm Formation," Faraday Discussions 241 (2023) 394-412.
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S. Biswas, S. Banerjee, M.A. Shlain, A.A. Bardin, R.V. Ulijn, B.L. Nannenga, A.M. Rappe and A.B. Braunschweig, "Photomechanochemical Control Over Stereoselectivity in the [2+2] Dimerization of Acenaphthylene," Faraday Discussions 241 (2023) 266-277.
DOI: 10.1039/d2fd00122eN. Hawthorne, S. Banerjee, Q. Moore, A.M. Rappe and J.D. Batteas, "Studies of the Reactivity of Graphene Driven by Mechanical Distortions," J. Phys. Chem C 126 (2022) 17569-17578.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c05261
S. Banerjee and A.M. Rappe, "Mechanochemical Molecular Migration on Graphene," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 144 (2022) 7181-7188.
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c13193M. Negrito, M.B. Elinski, N. Hawthorne, M.P. Pedley, M. Han, M. Sheldon, R.M. Espinosa-Marzal and J.D. Batteas, "Using Patterned Self-Assembled Monolayers to Tune Graphene-Substrate Interactions," Langmuir 37 (2021) 9996-10005.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c01136
This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under cooperative agreement: 2023644 (Phase I) and 2303044 (Phase II). Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. National Science Foundation.
