When developing these materials, we imagined a polymer system that would be easily spreadable onto a substrate as a liquid that would then transition to a solid state after the introduction of mechanical stimuli. The final solid material should be bonded together permanently with covalent crosslinks. To achieve this goal, we selected the monomer GMA for its robust epoxide reactive group. Epoxides are known to undergo a ring-opening reaction in the presence of nucleophiles like amines and thiols. To introduce mechano-sensitivity, we sought to copolymerize our epoxide functional monomers with monomers functionalized with groups that could provide steric hindrance. Towards this goal, GMA was co-polymerized with PEGMA of varied molecular weights from 140 to 950 g/mol that we hypothesized could provide a steric hindrance to crosslinking via their ether side-chains.