Sonochemistry - beyond synthesis
Sonochemistry, the use of sound energy to induce physical or chemical changes within a medium, has a growing number of applications in fields such as medicine and nanotechnology
Until the mid-1980s the focus of sonochemistry was mainly devoted to improvements in synthesis, in particular reactions involving organometallic compounds.1 Over the past 25 years interest has developed in the subject because of its growing applications in synthesis and the extension of sonochemical studies into different fields such as the manufacture of foodstuffs, cancer chemotherapy, drug delivery, nanotechnology, the extraction of medicinal compounds from plants and environmental remediation.2-5
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