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Template-Directed In Crystallo Photopolymerization of a Donor–Acceptor Cyclopropane: When Everything Falls into Place!

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Real‐Time In Situ Raman Monitoring of Photomechanochemical Reactions

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Photomechanochemistry: harnessing mechanical forces to enhance photochemical reactions

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Mechano-photoexcitation for organic synthesis using mechanoluminescent materials as photon sources

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Anthracene-based structural color films with luminescence enhancement, rapid patterning and wettability response for multi-dimensional encryption and anti-counterfeiting applications

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3D electron diffraction analysis of a novel, mechanochemically synthesized supramolecular organic framework based on tetrakis-4-(4-pyridyl)phenylmethane

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Two-Legged Molecular Walker and Curvature: Mechanochemical Ring Migration on Graphene

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The Regioselective Solid‐State Photo‐Mechanochemical Synthesis of Nanographenes with UV light

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Acceleration of Diels-Alder reactions by mechanical distortion

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