Nano-sized particles are utilised to boost reactivity, give more surface area, and decrease material consumption in a variety of industries, including active medicines, pigments, technical ceramics, and electronics.
The diamonds are bonded to the piezoelectric material by gaseous deposition, laser cladding or directly bonding a porous tool to the material via an adhesive paste. The process is executed by applying a known sinusoidal frequency to the piezoelectric crystal in order to achieve a desired oscillatory displacement. Rapid vibration of the crystal will allow material removal rates to be increased, thus making it a nanomanufacturing process. The nanogrinding process is accompanied by wear of the diamond grains, and the rate of this wear plays an important role in determining the efficiency of the nanogrinding process and the quality of the nanomachined surface. Wear mechanisms in nanogrinding processes appear to be similar to that of single-point cutting tools, the only difference being the size of swarf particles generated.
