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• Overholts, Anna C. and Robb, Maxwell J. (2022) Examining the Impact of Relative Mechanophore Activity on the Selectivity of Ultrasound-Induced Mechanochemical Chain Scission; ACS Macro Letters; Vol. 11; No. 6; 733-738; 10.1021/acsmacrolett.2c00217
• Barber, Ross W. and Robb, Maxwell J. (2022) A mechanochemical two for one: Mechanical activation of norborn‐2‐en‐7‐one releases carbon monoxide and switches on aggregation‐induced emission; Aggregate; Vol. 3; No. 2; Art. No. e196; 10.1002/agt2.196
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• Barber, Ross W. and Robb, Maxwell J. (2021) A modular approach to mechanically gated photoswitching with color-tunable molecular force probes; Chemical Science; Vol. 12; No. 35; 11703-11709; PMCID PMC8442728; 10.1039/d1sc02890a
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• McFadden, Molly E. and Robb, Maxwell J. (2021) Generation of an Elusive Permanent Merocyanine via a Unique Mechanochemical Reaction Pathway; Journal of the American Chemical Society; Vol. 143; No. 21; 7925-7929; 10.1021/jacs.1c03865
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• McFadden, Molly E. and Robb, Maxwell J. (2019) Force-Dependent Multicolor Mechanochromism from a Single Mechanophore; Journal of the American Chemical Society; Vol. 141; No. 29; 11388-11392; 10.1021/jacs.9b05280
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• Kim, Tae Ann and Robb, Maxwell J., et el. (2018) Mechanical Reactivity of Two Different Spiropyran Mechanophores in Polydimethylsiloxane; Macromolecules; Vol. 51; No. 22; 9177-9183; 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b01919
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• Sung, Jaeuk and Robb, Maxwell J., et el. (2018) Interfacial Mechanophore Activation Using Laser-Induced Stress Waves; Journal of the American Chemical Society; Vol. 140; No. 15; 5000-5003; 10.1021/jacs.8b01427
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• Robb, Maxwell J. and Kim, Tae Ann, et el. (2016) Regioisomer-Specific Mechanochromism of Naphthopyran in Polymeric Materials; Journal of the American Chemical Society; Vol. 138; No. 38; 12328-12331; 10.1021/jacs.6b07610
• Robb, Maxwell J. and Li, Wenle, et el. (2016) A Robust Damage-Reporting Strategy for Polymeric Materials Enabled by Aggregation-Induced Emission; ACS Central Science; Vol. 2; No. 9; 598-603; PMCID PMC5043436; 10.1021/acscentsci.6b00198
• Russ, Boris and Robb, Maxwell J., et el. (2016) Tethered tertiary amines as solid-state n-type dopants for solution-processable organic semiconductors; Chemical Science; Vol. 7; No. 3; 1914-1919; PMCID PMC5966797; 10.1039/c5sc04217h
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• Robb, Maxwell J. and Moore, Jeffrey S. (2015) A Retro-Staudinger Cycloaddition: Mechanochemical Cycloelimination of a β-Lactam Mechanophore; Journal of the American Chemical Society; Vol. 137; No. 34; 10946-10949; 10.1021/jacs.5b07345
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• Robb, Maxwell J. and Newton, Brandon, et el. (2014) One-Step Synthesis of Unsymmetrical N-Alkyl-N′-aryl Perylene Diimides; Journal of Organic Chemistry; Vol. 79; No. 13; 6360-6365; 10.1021/jo500945k
• Russ, Boris and Robb, Maxwell J., et el. (2014) Power Factor Enhancement in Solution‐Processed Organic n‐Type Thermoelectrics Through Molecular Design; Advanced Materials; Vol. 26; No. 21; 3473-3477; 10.1002/adma.201306116
• Robb, Maxwell J. and Ku, Sung-Yu, et el. (2013) 25th Anniversary Article: No Assembly Required: Recent Advances in Fully Conjugated Block Copolymers; Advanced Materials; Vol. 25; No. 40; 5686-5700; 10.1002/adma.201302677
• Klinger, Daniel and Robb, Maxwell J., et el. (2013) Supramolecular guests in solvent driven block copolymer assembly: from internally structured nanoparticles to micelles; Polymer Chemistry; Vol. 4; No. 19; 5038-5042; PMCID PMC4267284; 10.1039/C3PY00750B
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• Robb, Maxwell J. and Montarnal, Damien, et el. (2013) A One-Step Strategy for End-Functionalized Donor–Acceptor Conjugated Polymers; Macromolecules; Vol. 46; No. 16; 6431-6438; 10.1021/ma401255d
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• Robb, Maxwell J. and Ku, Sung-Yu, et el. (2013) A renaissance of color: New structures and building blocks for organic electronics; Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry; Vol. 51; No. 6; 1263-1271; 10.1002/pola.26531
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• Robb, Maxwell J. and Connal, Luke A., et el. (2012) Functional block copolymer nanoparticles: toward the next generation of delivery vehicles; Polymer Chemistry; Vol. 3; No. 6; 1616-1628; PMCID PMC4257844; 10.1039/C2PY20131C
• Lo Conte, Mauro and Robb, Maxwell J., et el. (2011) Exhaustive glycosylation, pegylation, and glutathionylation of a [G4]‐ene_(48) dendrimer via photoinduced thiol‐ene coupling; Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry; Vol. 49; No. 20; 4468-4475; PMCID PMC3181107; 10.1002/pola.24888
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• Antoni, Per and Robb, Maxwell J., et el. (2010) Pushing the Limits for Thiol−Ene and CuAAC Reactions: Synthesis of a 6th Generation Dendrimer in a Single Day; Macromolecules; Vol. 43; No. 16; 6625-6631; 10.1021/ma101242u
• Robb, Maxwell J. and Knauss, Daniel M. (2009) Poly(arylene sulfide)s by nucleophilic aromatic substitution polymerization of 2,7‐difluorothianthrene; Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry; Vol. 47; No. 9; 2453-2461; 10.1002/pola.23341