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

E.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.

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c06253







N.Z. Koocher, A.B. Altman, R.A. Kleing, C.D. Malliakas, S.D. Jacobsen, D.E. Freedman, and J.M. Rondinelli, "Tunable Negative Thermal Expansion in Layered Perovskite Ba3Zr2S7," Inorg. Chem. 64 (2025) 10761-10771.

DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5c00314







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







Y.S. Zholdassov, R.W. Kwok, M.A. Shlain, M. Patel, M. Marianski and A.B. Braunschweig, "Kinetics of Primary Mechanochemical Covalent-Bond-Forming Reactions," RSC Mechanochemistry 1 (2024) 11-32.

DOI: 10.1039/D3MR00018D







S. 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







Y.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.

DOI: 10.1126/science.adf5273







L. 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.

DOI: 10.1039/d2fd00123c







N. 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







M. 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