TY - JOUR

T1 - Tribochemistry, Mechanical Alloying, Mechanochemistry

T2 - What is in a Name?

AU - Michalchuk, Adam A.L.

AU - Boldyreva, Elena V.

AU - Belenguer, Ana M.

AU - Emmerling, Franziska

AU - Boldyrev, Vladimir V.

N1 - Funding Information: As the founding president of the IMA (VB) and as members of the IMA and COST Action CA18112, the authors acknowledge support of the ongoing efforts of both organisations to develop a global community of mechanochemists. The authors are grateful to many significant and seminal contributions to the field of mechanochemistry by many remarkable scientists, upon whose shoulders the current field stands. EB acknowledges the financial support from RFBR (Grant 19-29-12026-MK). Funding Information: As the founding president of the IMA (VB) and as members of the IMA and COST Action CA18112, the authors acknowledge support of the ongoing efforts of both organisations to develop a global community of mechanochemists. The authors are grateful to many significant and seminal contributions to the field of mechanochemistry by many remarkable scientists, upon whose shoulders the current field stands. EB acknowledges the financial support from RFBR (Grant 19-29-12026 -MK). Publisher Copyright: © Copyright © 2021 Michalchuk, Boldyreva, Belenguer, Emmerling and Boldyrev. Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2021/5/26

Y1 - 2021/5/26

N2 - 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 hope will spark timely and constructive discussion across the international mechanochemical community.

AB - 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 hope will spark timely and constructive discussion across the international mechanochemical community.

KW - mechanical activation

KW - mechanical alloying

KW - mechanochemical pictographs

KW - mechanochemistry

KW - nomenclature

KW - tribochemistry

KW - tribology

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85108345921&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.3389/fchem.2021.685789

DO - 10.3389/fchem.2021.685789

M3 - Review article

C2 - 34164379

AN - SCOPUS:85108345921

VL - 9

SP - 685789

JO - Frontiers in Chemistry

JF - Frontiers in Chemistry

SN - 2296-2646

M1 - 685789

ER -