NSF Center for the Mechanical Control of Chemistry

PATENTS

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

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

PAPERS

J. Cobena-Reyes, F.H. Bhuiyan, and A. Martini, "Atomistic Simulations of Mechanically Activated Reactions for Oxygen Release from Polymers," RSC Mechanochemistry in press. 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/D4MR00031E

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 2024 DOI: 10.1039/D3MR00018D

S.R. Garcia, Y.S. Zholdassov, A.B. Braunschweig and A. Martini, “Reactive Simulations of Silica Functionalization with Aromatic Hydrocarbons,” Langmuir 40, 1 (2024), 561-567. DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c02785

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

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: 10.1039/D3CP02549G 

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

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

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

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

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

S. Banerjee and A.M. Rappe, "Mechanochemical Molecular Migration on Graphene," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 144 (2022) 7181-7188. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c13193

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