Frontiers Research of Cavitation on Extended Surfaces
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2022) | Viewed by 1747
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Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cavitation deals with the nucleation, growth, and rapid implosive collapse of gas and vapor-filled microbubbles in a liquid subjected to depression. This phenomenon has different origins, including, for instance, acoustic, hydrodynamic, and optical cavitation. While cavitation can generate unwanted harmful conditions in some cases (e.g., hydraulic machineries), the extreme conditions generated at collapse may offer a potentially interesting alternative for surface treatment while providing specific chemical and/or physical effects. Examples taken from recent literature indeed describe the use of cavitation for the fragmentation and erosion of solids, dissolution of refractory materials, depassivation of metallic surfaces, functionalization of material surfaces, decontamination or structuring of materials, cleaning and disinfection of surfaces, etc. This Special Issue aims at gathering recent advances dealing with cavitation-induced surface treatment from the fundamental exploration of the mechanisms involved at the interface to surface manipulation, including interesting applications and innovations. This edition also aims to bring together different communities that do not often interact in order to help new research ideas and directions around the effect of cavitation at the solid/liquid interface to flourish.
Dr. Matthieu Virot
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ultrasound
- sonochemistry
- hydrodynamic cavitation
- laser cavitation
- interface
- materials
- surface treatment
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