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Demonstrated leverage

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Comparing how cyclopropanated polymers with different backbones behave when stretched with an atomic force microscope reveals that it is not only the strained rings that influence the mechanochemical response, but that the structure of the polymer backbone itself is far from innocent in this regard.

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