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Mechanoradicals Created in “Polymeric Sponges” Drive Reactions in Aqueous Media
Author(s) -
Baytekin H. Tarik,
Baytekin Bilge,
Grzybowski Bartosz A.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201108110
Subject(s) - polymer , aqueous medium , porous medium , aqueous solution , energy (signal processing) , polymer science , materials science , chemical engineering , nanotechnology , chemistry , porosity , composite material , organic chemistry , engineering , physics , quantum mechanics
Squeezing out the energy : Macroscopically reversible deformation of polymers in contact with water produces H 2 O 2 in quantities that are sufficient to drive small‐scale chemical syntheses. The amount of mechanosynthesized H 2 O 2 scales with the polymer–water interfacial area, and the efficiency of the mechanical‐to‐chemical energy transduction can be as high as 30 % for soft, porous polymer “sponges”.