it was Ostwald (the ninth chemistry Nobel Laureate) who systemized chemistry in 1919 into the branches of thermochemistry, electrochemistry, photochemistry Faraday Discussions

PAPERand mechanochemistry.4 It is only in the past decade or so, however, that mechanochemistry has gained notable attention in the chemical community with the diverse conuence of related but quite different specialties, ranging from metallurgists to polymer scientists to synthetic organic and inorganic chemists to The use of friction to make re takes our connection between the mechanical and the chemical worlds back to the dawn of our species. The written records on mechanochemistry date back to the ancient Greeks, when Theophrastus (one of Aristotle's students) wrote “On Stones ” in ca. 315 BCE and referred to th