The search for new and advanced materials is the major preoccupation of metallurgists, ceramicists, and material scientists for the past several centuries. Significant improvements in mechanical, chemical, and physical properties have been achieved by alloying and through chemical modification and by subjection the materials to conventional thermal, mechanical, and thermo mechanical processing methods. Present paper deals with a brief review of the mechanical alloying questions focusing on the possible processes and apparatuses (mills).

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Mechanical Alloying and Milling

The aim of this review article on recent developments of mechanochemistry (nowadays established as a part of chemistry) is to provide a comprehensive overview of advances achieved in the field of atomistic processes, phase transformations, simple and multicomponent nanosystems and peculiarities of mechanochemical reactions. Industrial aspects with successful penetration into fields like materials engineering, heterogeneous catalysis and extractive metallurgy are also reviewed. The hallmarks of mechanochemistry include influencing reactivity of solids by the presence of solid-state defects, interphases and relaxation phenomena, enabling processes to take place under non-equilibrium conditions, creating a well-crystallized core of nanoparticles with disordered near-surface shell regions and performing simple dry time-convenient one-step syntheses. Underlying these hallmarks are technological consequences like preparing new nanomaterials with the desired properties or producing these materials in a reproducible way with high yield and under simple and easy operating conditions. The last but not least hallmark is enabling work under environmentally friendly and essentially waste-free conditions (822 references).

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Hallmarks of mechanochemistry: From nanoparticles to technology

Mechanochemistry of inorganic solids is a well-established field. In the last decade mechanical treatment has become increasingly popular as a method for achieving selective and “greener” syntheses also in organic systems. New groups and researchers enter the field of mechanochemistry, often re-discovering many of the previously known facts and effects, while at the same time neglecting other important concepts. The author of this contribution has long been involved in mechanochemical research in both inorganic and organic systems. The aim of this contribution is to provide an overview of the basic concepts of mechanochemistry in relation to inorganic and organic systems.

Mechanochemistry of inorganic and organic systems: what is similar, what is different?

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Progress in synthesis of ferroelectric ceramic materials via high-energy mechanochemical technique

Microstructural and hardness behavior of graphene-nanoplatelets/aluminum composites synthesized by mechanical alloying

Mechanical alloying (MA) is a powder metallurgy processing technique involving cold welding, fracturing, and rewelding of powder particles in a high-energy ball mill, and has now become an established commercial technique to produce oxide dispersion strengthened (ODS) nickel- and iron-based materials. MA is also capable of synthesizing a variety of metastable phases, and in this respect, the capabilities of MA are similar to those of another important non-equilibrium processing technique, viz., rapid solidification processing (RSP). However, the “science” of MA is being investigated only during the past 10 years or so. The technique of mechanochemistry, on the other hand, has had a long history and the materials produced in this way have found a number of technological applications, e.g., in areas such as hydrogen storage materials, heaters, gas absorbers, fertilizers, catalysts, cosmetics, and waste management. The present paper discusses the basic mechanisms of formation of metastable phases (specifically supersaturated solid solutions and amorphous phases) by the technique of MA and these aspects are compared with those of RSP. Additionally, the variety of technological applications of mechanically alloyed products are highlighted.

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The science and technology of mechanical alloying