2024/08/16 by Orein F. Jafter, Sol Lee, Jongseong Park +2 · 1 voice · 1 citation
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · Arts and Humanities · #Injection Molding Process and Properties #Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications #Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis
paper · pdf · doi:10.1002/anie.202409731
openalex publication_date 2024/08/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22
Abstract The rising prospects of mechanochemically assisted syntheses hold promise for both academia and industry, yet they face challenges in understanding and, therefore, anticipating respective reaction kinetics. Particularly, dependencies based on variations in milling equipment remain little understood and globally overlooked. This study aims to address this issue by identifying critical parameters through kinematic models, facilitating the reproducibility of mechanochemical reactions across the most prominent mills in laboratory settings, namely planetary and mixer mills. Through a series of selected experiments replicating major classes of organic, organometallic, transition metal‐catalyzed, and inorganic reactions from literature, we rationalize the independence of kinematic parameters on reaction kinetics when the accumulated energy criterion is met. As a step forward and to facilitate the practicability of our findings, we provide a freely accessible online tool [†] that allows the calculation of respective energy parameters for different planetary and mixer mills. Our work advances the current understanding of mechanochemistry and lays the foundation for future rational exploration in this rapidly evolving field.