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Ultrasound as Mechanical Force

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Organic Sonochemistry

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Acoustic cavitation invariably combines chemical and mechanical effects that stem from bubble collapse in liquids. Strategies to harness preferentially the role of mechanochemistry in sonochemistry have been invented and developed in recent years, demonstrating enormous versatility from synthesis and catalysis to biology and analytical monitoring. Most cases involve polymers containing weak bonds that can be fragmented by sonication. The effects are dependent largely on both the nature of substrates and the strength of cavitational collapse.

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  1. LCME/SCeM, Université de Savoie Mont Blanc, Paris, France

    Jean-Marc Lévêque

  2. Dipartimento di Scienza e Tecnologia del Farmaco, Universitá di Torino, Turin, Italy

    Giancarlo Cravotto

  3. Departement de Chimie, Unité de Chimie Environnementale et Interactions sur le Vivant, Dunkerque, France

    François Delattre

  4. Departamento Química Orgánica e Inorgánica, Facultad de Ciencias, University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain

    Pedro Cintas

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Lévêque, JM., Cravotto, G., Delattre, F., Cintas, P. (2018). Ultrasound as Mechanical Force. In: Organic Sonochemistry. SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98554-1_6

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