This Faraday Discussion will be a hybrid event, allowing participation both in person and online.
Welcome
Join us in Cambridge, or online, in 2022 for this addition to our Faraday Discussion series. For over 100 years and 300 meetings, Faraday Discussions have been the forefront of physical chemistry. Many of these Discussions have become landmark meetings in their field.This meeting is for established and early-career scientists, post-graduate students and industrial researchers interested in mechanochemistry. We invite you to join us to discuss the topic of mechanochemistry and make your contribution alongside leaders in this field.
The unique format of the Faraday Discussions will allow for in-depth discussions and opportunities to establish new collaborations.
On behalf of our committee, we look forward to welcoming you to Cambridge, or if you are joining us virtually, online, in 2022.
Stuart James, Queen’s University Belfast
Co-Chair
Tomislav Friscic, McGill University
Co-Chair
Format
Faraday Discussions remain amongst the only conferences to distribute the speakers’ research papers in advance, allowing the majority of each meeting to be devoted to discussion in which all delegates can participate. Following each meeting a written record of the discussion is published alongside the papers in the Faraday Discussion journal. Find out more about the Faraday Discussions in the video available.Themes
The Faraday Discussion will be organised into the following themes:Advances in synthesis
Mechanochemical synthesis continues to develop as a dominant theme in mechanochemical research. This session will provide a forum for the following aspects: Increasing levels of sophistication in the techniques applied (e.g. multistep synthesis), increasingly difficult synthetic targets (e.g. selective substitutions and using normally inert reactants), and increasing breadth (e.g. spreading further within organic synthesis and meta-organic synthesis and now being demonstrated in main group synthesis).
Shear processes and polymer mechanochemistry
The chemical processes that occur in lubricants under operating conditions of high shear are hugely important economically and, frustratingly, still poorly understood. Further, harnessing the ability to control processes such as polymer scission under shear can lead to new ‘intelligent’ materials such as self-healing plastics
Kinetics and basic understanding
Mapping out the various reaction models that are appropriate to given reaction conditions; development of in situ and ex-situ techniques; interpreting kinetic data to provide reaction models; elucidating mechanochemical processes at the molecular level; demonstrating how such knowledge can impact on the practice of mechanochemical synthesis. The session will include exciting new developments in computational modelling.
Scale up and industrial implementation
This theme builds on the commercial potential of synthesis that has been demonstrated at small scales and stresses the challenges of scale-up by milling and the opportunities offered by extrusion techniques. Economic considerations are also key regarding the processes overall including any purification steps required.
