Bis-Adamantyl dioxetane

Whilst sonication is a convenient tool to screen for mechanical reactivity, a probe for mechanical stress such as the bis(adamantyl)dioxetane is most likely to provide the most technologically relevant insights in the solid state, where most polymeric materials find their application. To this end, poly(methyl acrylate)... 

In addition to these collaborations, the deformation mechanisms of more commonplace polymeric materials have been visualised with mechanoluminescence. Bis(adamantyl)dioxetane was incorporated into the main chains of segmented copolymers comprising poly(tetramethylene oxide) (PTMO) soft segments with... 

In the field of the dioxetanes not only a series of new compounds was synthesized and investigations of their thermal stability were performed — a particularly stable compound being the bis adamantyl derivative... 

Figure 11.9 Mapping of bond cleavage in self-reporting chemiluminescent elastomers that are toughened ty sacrificial bonds, (a) Bis(adamantyl)-1,2-dioxetane breaks under a mechanical force, resulting in chemiluminescence. (b) Intensity-coloured images of polymer networks during crack propagation of notched samples and schematic depiction of bond breaking around the crack tip. SN, DN, TN label elastomers of different molecular architecture ( single network , double network and triple network ). The dashed line indicates the perimeter of the sample. Vertical lines are artefacts of the detector.

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