“Mechanochemistry in Block Copolymers: New Scission Site due to Dynamic Phase Separation” is now published in Angewandte Chemie. This study was led by Dr. Hang Zhen, a postdoc in Charles Diesendruck’s group at the Technion. We showed how the conformation of block copolymers is a critical component for their rate of degradation under mechanical loading in solution. MMD lab undergraduate Alan Zoubi conducted and analyzed molecular dynamic simulations to determine how co-polymer composition and sequence influence chain conformation in solution and to support understanding of Dr. Zhen’s experimental results. Also a special thanks to recent MMD lab graduate Dr. Steven Yang for training Alan on the fundamentals of molecular dynamics simulations and on how to run simulations on XSEDE (the NSF HPC system).