Polymeric Foams

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: Technology: general issues; 1; 3; 5-benzene-trisamides; absorbent PMI foam; acoustic performances; activation energies; adjacent façade; aluminum microfibers; automobile structural adhesives; biomaterials; burning characteristic; cell nucleation; cellulose foam; cellulose nanofiber; composites; compression properties; conductivity; core-shell rubber; crystalline; DOPO; electrical conductivity; electromagnetic wave absorption; EMI; energy absorption capability; energy conservation; epoxy; epoxy composite foam adhesive; equation of state; ethyl cellulose; Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer; expandable microspheres; extrusion foaming; failure mechanism; flame retardancy; flame-retardant ABS microcellular foams; fluoelastomer; foam extrusion; foam injection molding; foam morphology; foaming quality; foams; functional; functional foam; graphene; graphene oxide; grey relational analysis; heat transfer; heterogeneous nucleation; impact property; impact wedge-peel test; intrinsic toughness; itaconic acid; leaching test; lignin; mechanical properties; mechanical property; metallic tube; microstructure; MuCell® injection-molding foaming; multi-objective particle swarm optimization; multifunctional foams; multilayers; n/a; nanotubes; permittivity; phenolic foams; phosphorus; phosphorus flame retardants; piezocomposite; piezoelectric; Pluronic; polyamide; polyetherimide foams; polymer waste; polymers; polypropylene; polystyrene foams; polyurethane foam; polyurethane foam composites; PUR; PZT; quasi-static compression tests; rigid polyurethane foam; SANS; scCO2; scCO2 foaming; semi-rigid polyurethane foams; shock compression; sound absorption coefficient; super critical CO2; supramolecular additives; surfactants; syntactic foams; ternary synergistic effect; thermal conductivity; thermal insulation; thermogravimetric analysis; ultrasonication
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 Advances in nanotechnology have boosted the development of more efficient materials, with emerging sectors (electronics, energy, aerospace, etc.) demanding novel materials to fulfill the complex technical requirements of their products. This is the case of polymeric foams, which may display good structural properties alongside functional characteristics through a complex composition and (micro)structure in which a gas phase is combined with rigid ones, mainly based on nanoparticles, dispersed throughout the polymer matrix. In recent years, there has been an important impulse in the development of nanocomposite foams, extending the concept of nanocomposites to the field of cellular materials. This, alongside developments in new advanced foaming technologies which have allowed the generation of foams with micro, sub-micro, and even nanocellular structures, has extended the applications of more traditional foams in terms of weight reduction, damping, and thermal and/or acoustic insulation to novel possibilities, such as electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding. This Special Issue, which consists of a total of 22 articles, including one review article written by research groups of experts in the field, considers recent research on novel polymer-based foams in all their aspects: design, composition, processing and fabrication, microstructure, characterization and analysis, applications and service behavior, recycling and reuse, etc.