Harnessing mechanochemical fluorescence toward autonomous damage-reporting coatings

2025/01/01 by Zeyu Wang, Junfeng Zhou, Zichen Ling +2 · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Materials Science · #Corrosion Behavior and Inhibition #Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis #Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials

paper · pdf · doi:10.1039/d5lp00011d

openalex publication_date 2025/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01

Abstract

A polymer coating autonomously reports damage via fluorescence from a force-induced retro-Diels–Alder reaction. The optical signal correlates with impact energy, enabling real-time, equipment-free damage detection, even in pigmented coatings.

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• Don't miss out on this exciting work from our RSC Applied Polymers Advisory Board member Junpeng Wang (University of Akron). They report an autonomous damage-reporting system based on a mechanochemica [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]