NSF Center for the Mechanical Control of Chemistry

PATENTS

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.




PAPERS

C.R. Deschene, C. Zwanziger, R. Matheu, H.I. Karunadasa, “Mixed-Valence Halide Perovskites,” Coord. Chem. Rev. (2025).

DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2025.216719







R.W. Kwok, R. Rutkoski, P. Nagorny, M. Marianski, “Stereoelectronic Effect of Protecting Groups on the Stability of Galactosyl Donor Intermediates,” Molecules, 30:2 (2025) 218.

DOI: 10.3390/molecules30020218







M.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.

DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5c00370







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







J. 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.

DOI: 10.1002/anie.202408443










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.3c02785







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.3c02785







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.2c01021







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/d2fd00122e







S. Banerjee and A.M. Rappe, "Mechanochemical Molecular Migration on Graphene," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 144 (2022) 7181-7188.

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c13193