Achieving the global energy sustainability plays a key role in the energy fields. Thermal
insulation materials play a vital role on this sustainability. There are different potential …

Nowadays, our society is facing problems related to energy availability. Owing to the energy
savings that insulators provide, the search for effective insulating materials is a focus of …

Foams made of immiscible polymer blends have attracted great interest in both academia
and industry, because of the integration of desirable properties of different polymers in a …

The equine hoof wall has a complex, hierarchical structure that can inspire designs of impact-
resistant materials. In this study, we utilized micro-computed tomography (μ-CT) and serial …

In this study, a lightweight microcellular carbon‐based filler/poly (vinylidene fluoride)(PVDF)
composite foam is fabricated with a 3D conductive network that is thermally insulating …

Owing to its applications in various fields, such as biomedical, microelectronics, sensors,
and polymer composites, polymer nanoconfinement is a widely studied topic. This …

Nanocellular polymers (ie, cellular polymers with cells and walls in the nanometric range)
were first produced in the early 2000s, with the works of Yokoyama et al.[1] being the main …

The key parameters and production route for the easy production of highly transparent
nanocellular films based on polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) with thickness below 1 mm are …

Nanometric cells in cellular polymers leads to a reduced gaseous thermal conductivity but a
relatively high heat transfer by radiation, which counteracts the previous reduction. In this …

Complementary structural characterization methods are useful for studying the hierarchical
cellular morphology of polymer foams. In this study, we employed scanning electron …