title: Enabling technologies built on a sonochemical platform: challenges and opportunities.
abstract: Scientific and technological progress now occurs at the interface between two or more scientific and technical disciplines while chemistry is intertwined with almost all scientific domains. Complementary and synergistic effects have been found in the overlay between sonochemistry and other enabling technologies such as mechanochemistry, microwave chemistry and flow-chemistry. Although their nature and effects are intrinsically different, these techniques share the ability to significantly activate most chemical processes and peculiar phenomena. These studies offer a comprehensive overview of sonochemistry, provide a better understanding of correlated phenomena (mechanochemical effects, hot spots, etc.), and pave the way for emerging applications which unite hybrid reactors.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Química Orgánica e Inorgánica, Facultad de Ciencias-UEX, Avda de Elvas s/n, E-06006 Badajoz, Spain.
authors.forename: Pedro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Cintas
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienza e Tecnologia del Farmaco and NIS - Centre for Nanostructured Interfaces and Surfaces, University of Turin, Via P. Giuria 9, 10125 Turin, Italy.
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tagliapietra
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienza e Tecnologia del Farmaco and NIS - Centre for Nanostructured Interfaces and Surfaces, University of Turin, Via P. Giuria 9, 10125 Turin, Italy.
authors.forename: Marina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Caporaso
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Chimica, University of Turin, Via P. Giuria 7, 10125 Turin, Italy.
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tabasso
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienza e Tecnologia del Farmaco and NIS - Centre for Nanostructured Interfaces and Surfaces, University of Turin, Via P. Giuria 9, 10125 Turin, Italy.
authors.forename: Giancarlo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cravotto
mesh_terms: D000162:Acoustics; D002621:Chemistry / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D057446:Hydrodynamics; D055595:Mechanical Phenomena; D008872:Microwaves; D000069453:Ultrasonic Waves
keywords: Enabling technologies; Flow chemistry; Mechanochemistry; Microwave chemistry; Sonochemistry