And what if you would use an electric field to polymerize and depolymerize

And what if you would use an electric field to polymerize...

By using an oriented electric field in a scanning tunneling microscope, one can locally control the condensation of boronic acids at the liquid/solid interface. The phase transition between self-assembled molecular networks and covalent organic frameworks is controlled by changing the polarity of the applied bias. The electric-field-induced phase transformation is reversible under ambient conditions.

Read more about it in J.Am.Chem.Soc., or the "News and Views" in Nature. 



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