Professor Harm-Anton Klok from Institutes of Materials, and Chemical Sciences and Engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland will give a research seminar on “Mechanochemistry of Solvent-Swollen Surface-Grafted Polymer Brushes, and Polymer Networks” on Wed, 23 November 2022, 11:00 SGT, at Executive Classroom S8-03-14.  He will highlight his team recent work that indicates that solvent-swelling of surface-grafted polymer brush films, or of covalently crosslinked polymer networks, mechanochemically accelerates chemical reactions, which can lead to bond cleavage at polymer brush interfaces, or trigger polymer network degradation in this seminar. All are welcome.