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ReviewAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2020

High Frequency Sonoprocessing: A New Field of Cavitation-Free Acoustic Materials Synthesis, Processing, and Manipulation.

Amgad R Rezk, Heba Ahmed, Shwathy Ramesan, Leslie Y Yeo

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Review in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The 2026 guided acoustic waves roadmap.Journal of physics D: Applied physics · 2026
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  10. Sonoporation: Past, Present, and Future.Advanced materials technologies · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Amgad R RezkMicro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory School of Engineering RMIT University Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia.
Heba AhmedMicro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory School of Engineering RMIT University Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia.
Shwathy RamesanMicro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory School of Engineering RMIT University Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia.
Leslie Y YeoMicro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory School of Engineering RMIT University Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5949-9729

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ultrasound constitutes a powerful means for materials processing. Similarly, a new field has emerged demonstrating the possibility for harnessing sound energy sources at considerably higher frequencies (10 MHz to 1 GHz) compared to conventional ultrasound (⩽3 MHz) for synthesizing and manipulating a variety of bulk, nanoscale, and biological materials. At these frequencies and the typical acoustic intensities employed, cavitation-which underpins most sonochemical or, more broadly, ultrasound-mediated processes-is largely absent, suggesting that altogether fundamentally different mechanisms are at play. Examples include the crystallization of novel morphologies or highly oriented structures; exfoliation of 2D quantum dots and nanosheets; polymer nanoparticle synthesis and encapsulation; and the possibility for manipulating the bandgap of 2D semiconducting materials or the lipid structure that makes up the cell membrane, the latter resulting in the ability to enhance intracellular molecular uptake. These fascinating examples reveal how the highly nonlinear electromechanical coupling associated with such high-frequency surface vibration gives rise to a variety of static and dynamic charge generation and transfer effects, in addition to molecular ordering, polarization, and assembly-remarkably, given the vast dimensional separation between the acoustic wavelength and characteristic molecular length scales, or between the MHz-order excitation frequencies and typical THz-order molecular vibration frequencies.

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crystallizationmolecular self‐assemblynanomaterialspolymerssonochemistrysurface acoustic waves

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PMID33437572
PMCPMC7788597

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