Craig Group

Chemists often use light or heat to overcome reaction barriers, we in the Craig Lab sometimes prefer hammers. #mechanochemistry #HelloTwitterWorld

This manuscript has been sitting in my computer for a while, and we finally get it out. Many thanks to Alex and Tatiana. We hope it will provide useful quantitative info for spiropyran (SP) force probe in various polymer matrices. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

This work was really inspired by @YanXiaLab 's work on the enos ether as effective ROMP monomer. I started the project during the summer while still at @CraigGroup_Duke and, later, with @ChziGu 's tremendous effort, we finally get this out together. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

[PMSE 100] Polymer Special Issue article "Metal identity effects in the fracture behavior of coordinatively crosslinked elastomers." #PMSE100 #polymer #Elastomers @CraigGroup_Duke @DukeU doi.org/10.1016/j.poly…

Check out our latest work online today @MacroJrnls_ACS! We report the synthesis of new polycarbooligosilanes, epoxide functionalization, and their single-chain elasticity. Another exciting @CciMonet collaboration with @CraigGroup_Duke and @KulikGroup! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Check out @ConnieOkeke 's poster on her research project this summer!! Welcome to leave comments if you have questions @CciMonet #MONETREUScholars

[Photos from @acspmse /@POLY_ACS Award Ceremony] Future Faculty Award Winners. Hearty congratulations! Hope you all had a great time at #ACSFall2023. All the very best to your next adventures. @AmerChemSociety #facultychemjobs

1️⃣: 🧪🔬 Calling all polymer chemists! Join us for the #MONETREUScholars Twitter Conference @CciMONET, a 24-hour virtual event showcasing the latest research from our REU scholars. Happening August 17-18, 2023. Don't miss it!

Welcome to drop by the CRIPT exhibit booth at 242 #ACSFall2023 @olsenlabmit

Stretchy, super-tough materials could make car tires less polluting. The secret to their toughness: Weak bonds that actually make them stronger. today.duke.edu/2023/06/spring… @CraigGroup_Duke @CciMonet @DukeU @johnsonchem @ShuWang_1111 @MIT #NSFfunded

New MONET publication in Science! Cyclobutane-based mechanophore cross-linkers that break through force-triggered cycloreversion lead to networks that are up to nine times as tough as conventional analogs. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

It was a fantastic weekend when Drs. Shu Wang, Yichen Yu, Patricia Johnson, and Cary Ritter came back to Duke for hooding!

From this week's covers: Synthesis and Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of a Strained trans-Silacycloheptene and Single-Molecule Mechanics of Its Polymer @BekkaKlausen @CciMonet @Klausen_Group @KulikGroup @CraigGroup_Duke @johnsonchem Learn more ➡️ go.acs.org/4Rn

New MONET publication from @CraigGroup_Duke and @olsenlabmit. Examining linear rheological properties of supramolecular polymer networks formed by mixtures of two different cross-linkers. sor.scitation.org/doi/10.1122/8.…

Duke University announcement of Phase II today.duke.edu/2021/09/nsf-cr…

We are excited to join @CAICECCI @cgem_cci @NSF_CSOE @SustainableNano @NSFCCHF and @UMN_CSP as a Phase II NSF Center for Chemical Innovation #NSFfunded

In our #NSynthCollection Stephen Craig @CraigGroup_Duke @DukeU and co-authors published in @NatureChemistry 🔒Conformational locks on ferrocene mechanophores 🧩Control over dissociation reaction pathways ⚙️Increased mechanochemical reactivity nature.com/articles/s4155… ($)

Finding different ways to approach #sciencecommunication can be beautiful! #scicomm #sciart

#OnThisDay in 1903, Marie Skłodowska Curie defends her doctoral thesis on radioactive substances at Université de la Sorbonne in Paris – becoming the first woman in France to receive a doctoral degree in physics.

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@WelsherLab @DadashiSilab @MatyPolymerLab We're all made of biopolymers, Kevin!

@CraigGroup_Duke @DadashiSilab @MatyPolymerLab Did a polymer write this tweet?

Polymers made by polymers... for polymers? pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… Nice paper, @DadashiSilab and the @MatyPolymerLab !