Gihan B. Hewage

Mechanochemical Activation of Covalent Bonds in Polymers with Full and Repeatable Macroscopic Shape Recovery

Gregory R. Gossweiler, Gihan B. Hewage, Gerardo Soriano et al. · ACS Macro Letters · 2014 · 357 citations

Mechanochemical Activation, Engineering, Mechanical Engineering +20

Stress-Responsive Polymers Containing Cyclobutane Core Mechanophores: Reactivity and Mechanistic Insights

Zachary S. Kean, Zhenbin Niu, Gihan B. Hewage et al. · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2013 · 144 citations · Full text

Macromolecular Chemistry, Engineering, Biomimetic Materials +22

Mechanochemically Active Soft Robots

Gregory R. Gossweiler, Cameron L. Brown, Gihan B. Hewage et al. · ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces · 2015 · 129 citations

Engineering, Biomimetic Materials, Soft Robot Walker +21

A coumarin dimer probe of mechanochemical scission efficiency in the sonochemical activation of chain-centered mechanophore polymers

Zachary S. Kean, Gregory R. Gossweiler, Tatiana B. Kouznetsova et al. · Chemical Communications · 2015 · 111 citations

Supramolecular Assembly, Engineering, Mechanochemical Scission Efficiency +17