Tribochemistry, mechanical alloying, mechanochemistry: what is in a name?
Abstract
Over the decades, the application of mechanical force to influence chemical reactions has been called by various names: mechanochemistry, tribochemistry, mechanical alloying, to name but a few. The evolution of these terms has largely mirrored the understanding of the field. But what is meant by these terms, why have they evolved, and does it really matter how a process is called? Which parameters should be defined to describe unambiguously the experimental conditions such that others can reproduce the results, or to allow a meaningful comparison between processes explored under different conditions? Can the information on the process be encoded in a clear, concise, and self-explanatory way? We address these questions in this Opinion contribution, which we hop
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@article{arxiv.2103.13836,
title = {Tribochemistry, mechanical alloying, mechanochemistry: what is in a name?},
author = {Adam A. L. Michalchuk and Elena V. Boldyreva and Ana M. Belenguer and Franziska Emmerling and Vladimir V. Boldyrev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.13836},
year = {2021}
}