Catalyst-Free Dynamic Crosslinking of Polydicyclopentadiene via Thiol–Ene/Imine Chemistry

This research was supported by the Sandia Laboratory Directed Research & Development (LDRD) - Award ID 2581603 (Sponsor 100001011 - National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC) and startup funding from the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of New Mexico. This work was in part produced by the Battelle Savannah River Alliance, LLC under contract number 89303321CEM000080 with the U.S. Department of Energy (SCL). Publisher acknowledges the U.S. Government license to provide public access under the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan). This work was supported by the Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program within the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL). The authors acknowledge the use of facilities at the Advanced Materials Laboratory (UNM/SNL). The authors thank Dr. Nick J Carroll and Dr. Gabriel P. Lopez for optical microscopy. We thank Drs. Ivan Hung and Zhehong Gan at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory for their assistance with ssNMR experiments. The National High Magnetic Field Laboratory is supported by the National Science Foundation through NSF/DMR-2128556 and the State of Florida. ssNMR characterization was supported by the NIH grant NS139178 to M.L. The authors acknowledge training from Danielle J. Chun in pDCPD purification; Ashley Garcia and Carina Anastasio in optical microscopy; and Geoffrey Courtin in laboratory safety. The authors used Perplexity AI to improve the manuscript's readability and language, then thoroughly reviewed and edited the content and take full responsibility for the published article. Figures , e, and the TOC were created in https://BioRender.com.