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Author: Baumann, Christoph × Start date: 2014 × Publisher: Weinheim : Wiley-VCH × Subject: polymers ×

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    Anti-Stokes Stress Sensing: Mechanochemical Activation of Triplet-Triplet Annihilation Photon Upconversion
    (Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, 2019) Yildiz, Deniz; Baumann, Christoph; Mikosch, Annabel; Kuehne, Alexander J.C.; Herrmann, Andreas; Göstl, Robert
    The development of methods to detect damage in macromolecular materials is of paramount importance to understand their mechanical failure and the structure–property relationships of polymers. Mechanofluorophores are useful and sensitive molecular motifs for this purpose. However, to date, tailoring of their optical properties remains challenging and correlating emission intensity to force induced material damage and the respective events on the molecular level is complicated by intrinsic limitations of fluorescence and its detection techniques. Now, this is tackled by developing the first stress-sensing motif that relies on photon upconversion. By combining the Diels–Alder adduct of a π-extended anthracene with the porphyrin-based triplet sensitizer PtOEP in polymers, triplet–triplet annihilation photon upconversion of green to blue light is mechanochemically activated in solution as well as in the solid state. © 2019 The Authors. Published by Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.
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    Multicolor Mechanofluorophores for the Quantitative Detection of Covalent Bond Scission in Polymers
    (Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, 2021) Baumann, Christoph; Stratigaki, Maria; Centeno, Silvia P.; Göstl, Robert
    The fracture of polymer materials is a multiscale process starting with the scission of a single molecular bond advancing to a site of failure within the bulk. Quantifying the bonds broken during this process remains a big challenge yet would help to understand the distribution and dissipation of macroscopic mechanical energy. We here show the design and synthesis of fluorogenic molecular optical force probes (mechanofluorophores) covering the entire visible spectrum in both absorption and emission. Their dual fluorescent character allows to track non-broken and broken bonds in dissolved and bulk polymers by fluorescence spectroscopy and microscopy. Importantly, we develop an approach to determine the absolute number and relative fraction of intact and cleaved bonds with high local resolution. We anticipate that our mechanofluorophores in combination with our quantification methodology will allow to quantitatively describe fracture processes in materials ranging from soft hydrogels to high-performance polymers. © 2021 The Authors. Angewandte Chemie International Edition published by Wiley-VCH GmbH