The
present work focuses on the challenges that emerge in connection
with the kinetics of mechanically activated transformations. This
is an important topics to comprehend to enable the full exploitation
of mechanical processing in a broad spectrum of areas related to chemistry
and materials science and engineering. Emerging challenges involve
a number of facets regarding materials and material properties, working
principles of ball mills and milling conditions, and local changes
occurring in series in processed materials. Within this context, it
is highly desirable to relate the nature and rate of observed mechanochemical
transformations to individual collisions and then to the processes
induced by mechanical stresses on the molecular scale. Hence, it is
necessary to characterize the milling regimes that can establish in
ball mills regarding frequency and energy of collisions, map the relationship
between milling dynamics and transformation kinetics, and obtain mechanistic
information through proper time-resolved investigations
in
situ
. A few specific hints are provided in this respect.