20. Mechanically Triggered On-Demand Degradation of Polyacrylonitrile Copolymers

Laura van Wesel, Anton Dennert, Tae-Lim Choi, Peng Liu*

Polymer 2026, 363, 130592.

Invited contribution to a special issue for the EPF Future Faculty and Researchers Award.

DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2026.130592

19. Mechanically Triggered Chemical Recyclable Polyethylene-like Materials

Menghe Xu†, Peng Liu†,*, Changle Chen*, Tae-Lim Choi*

Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2026, 65, e22618.

DOI: 10.1002/anie.202522618

18. Selective and Controllable Trapping of Single Proteins in Nanopores Using Reversible Covalent Bonds

Yuanjie Li, Saurabh Awasthi, Peng Liu, Anna D. Protopopova, Michael Mayer*

ACS Nano 2026, 20, 879.

DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5c16000

17. Mechanically Triggered Bright Chemiluminescence from Polymers by Exploiting a Synergy Between Masked 2-Furylcarbinol Mechanophores and 1,2-Dioxetane Chemiluminophores

Peng Liu†, Yu-Ling Tseng†, Liang Ge, Tian Zeng, Doron Shabat*, Maxwell J. Robb*

Journal of the American Chemical Society 2024, 146, 22151–22156.

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c07592

16. Mechanically Triggered On-Demand Degradation of Polymers Synthesized by Radical Polymerizations

Peng Liu*, Sètuhn Jimaja, Stefan Immel, Christoph Thomas, Michael Mayer, Christoph Weder, Nico Bruns*

Nature Chemistry 2024, 16, 1184–1192.

DOI: 10.1038/s41557-024-01508-x

15. Large-area, Self-healing Block Copolymer Membranes for Energy Conversion

Christian Sproncken, Peng Liu, Justin Monney, William Fall, Carolina Pierucci, Philip Scholten, Brian Van Bueren, Macros Penedo, Georg Ernest Fantner, Henricus Wensink, Ulrich Steiner, Christoph Weder, Nico Bruns, Michael Mayer*, Alessandro Ianiro*

Nature 2024, 630, 866–871.

DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07481-2

14. Multimechanophore Polymers for Mechanically Triggered Small Molecule Release with Ultrahigh Payload Capacity

Tian Zeng, Liam Ordner, Peng Liu, Maxwell J. Robb*

Journal of the American Chemical Society 2024, 146, 95–100.

DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c11927

13. Regio- and Diastereoselective Conjugate Addition of Grignard Reagents to Chiral Fluoroalkyl α,β-Unsaturated N-tert-Butanesulfinyl Ketimines: Synthesis of Optically Active Fluorinated Enamines and Derivatives

Wen-Jiang Ma†, Peng Liu†, Tian-Ming Liao, Yu-Ning Gao, Ming Bian, Jin-Tao Liu, Fanhong Wu, Hui-Yu Chen*, Zhen-Jiang Liu*

Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis 2023, 365, 1–7.

DOI: 10.1002/adsc.202300983

12. Peptide-reinforced Amphiphilic Polymer Conetworks

Sara T. R. Velasquez, Daseul Jang, Peter Jenkins, Peng Liu, Liu Yang, LaShanda T. J. Korley, Nico Bruns*

Advanced Functional Materials 2022, 32, 2207317.

DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202207317

11. Fast Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization of Tricyclic Oxanorbornene Derivatives

Zhenghao Dong, Peng Liu, Aurelien Crochet, Andreas F. M. Kilbinger*

Macromolecules 2022, 55, 3681.

DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.2c00274

10. Mono-telechelic Polymers by Catalytic Living Ring-opening Metathesis Polymerization with Second-generation Hoveyda–Grubbs Catalyst

Peng Liu, Zhenghao Dong, Andreas F. M. Kilbinger*

Materials Chemistry Frontiers 2020, 4, 2791.

Invited paper; themed collection in honor of Professor Robert H. Grubbs for his 50-year contributions in metathesis.

DOI: 10.1039/D0QM00417K

9. One-Step Ring Opening Metathesis Block-Like Copolymers and their Compositional Analysis by a Novel Retardation Technique

Mohammad Yasir, Peng Liu, Jens Markwart, Frederik Wurm, Jansie Smart, Marco Lattuada, Andreas F. M. Kilbinger*

Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2020, 59, 13597.

Hot Paper.

DOI: 10.1002/anie.202005366

8. Catalytic Living Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerisation: The Importance of Ring Strain in Chain Transfer Agents

Peng Liu†, Mohammad Yasir†, Andreas F. M. Kilbinger*

Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2019, 58, 15278–15282.

Hot Paper.

DOI: 10.1002/anie.201907921

7. Catalytic Living Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerization with Grubbs' Second and Third Generation Catalyst

Mohammad Yasir†, Peng Liu†, Iris K. Tennie, Andreas F. M. Kilbinger*

Nature Chemistry 2019, 11, 488–494.

DOI: 10.1038/s41557-019-0239-4

6. Heterotelechelic Polymers by Ring-Opening Metathesis and Regioselective Chain Transfer

Peng Liu, Mohammad Yasir, Albert Ruggi, Andreas F. M. Kilbinger*

Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2018, 57, 914–917.

DOI: 10.1002/anie.201708733

5. Diastereoselective Trifluoromethylation of Chiral α,β-Unsaturated N-tert-Butanesulfinyl Ketimines with Ruppert-Prakash Reagent: Asymmetric Synthesis of α-Tertiary Trifluoromethyl Allylic Amines

Peng Liu, Zhong-Liang Lei, Ying-Ying Peng, Zhen-Jiang Liu*, Feng-Qun Zhu, Jin-Tao Liu, Fanhong Wu*

Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis 2018, 360, 3418–3423.

DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201800625

4. Regio- and Diastereoselective Reformatsky Reaction of Chiral Fluoroalkyl α,β-unsaturated N-tert-Butanesulfinyl Ketimines: Efficient Asymmetric Synthesis of β-Fluoroalkyl β-vinyl β-amino Esters

Ying-Ying Peng†, Peng Liu†, Zhen-Jiang Liu*, Jin-Tao Liu, Hai-Fang Mao, Yue Liang Yao*

Tetrahedron 2018, 74, 3074–3080.

DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2018.05.014

3. Enolesters as Chain End-functionalizing Agents for The Living Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerization

Peng Liu, Mohammad Yasir, Helena Kurzen, Nils Hanik, Mark Schäfer, Andreas F. M. Kilbinger*

Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry 2017, 55, 2983–2990.

Invited paper; special issue in honor of Professor Robert H. Grubbs.

DOI: 10.1002/pola.28468

2. Highly Regio- and Diastereoselective Addition of Organolithium Reagents to Chiral Fluoroalkyl α,β-Unsaturated N-tert-Butanesulfinyl Ketimines: A General and Efficient Access to α-Tertiary Fluoroalkyl Allylic Amines and α-Fluoroalkyl α-Amino Acids

Peng Liu, Zhen-Jiang Liu*, Fanhong Wu*

Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis 2015, 357, 818–822.

DOI: 10.1002/adsc.201400992