Foaming of polymers with carbon dioxide–The year-in-review–2019

JA Sarver, E Kiran - The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, 2021 - Elsevier
This is a review article focused on publications that appeared in 2019 to serve as a critical
assessment and summary of observations of the most recent trends in polymer foaming …

Nanocellular TPU composite foams achieved by stretch-assisted microcellular foaming with low-pressure gaseous CO2 as blowing agent

J Zhao, G Wang, A Zhang, G Zhao, CB Park - Journal of CO2 Utilization, 2021 - Elsevier
Microcellular foaming is an advanced eco-friendly foaming technology with carbon dioxide
as blowing agent. Generally, high-pressure supercritical blowing agents is needed to …

Carbon foams by solid state foaming of short vermicelli bonded by phenol-formaldehyde for thermal insulation and electromagnetic interference shielding

R Saraswathy, GK Sharma… - ACS Applied Engineering …, 2023 - ACS Publications
A simple method of production of carbon foams by randomly assembling short vermicelli
rods and bonding them using phenol-formaldehyde (PF) followed by foaming in the solid …

Computational design of nucleating agents of poly (methyl methacrylate) microcellular foams:“savanna‐like” surface structures and their effects on foaming

T Ono, S Yoda, D Kageyama, Y Saito… - Polymer Engineering …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
To further the computational design of polymer foaming, this work investigated the
interactions between polymer and nucleating agents by evaluating the removal forces …

Nanoporous structure development in PEI thin film foams

ZS Patel, S Sridhar, K Nadella, V Kumar… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - Springer
Solid-state foaming has been extensively explored as an eco-friendly, highly tunable route
to produce microcellular and nanocellular structures in a broad range of thermoplastic …

Molecular dynamics simulations of ultrathin PMMA films

L Zhang, NA Fleck - Polymer, 2021 - Elsevier
The mechanical properties of an ultrathin film made from a thermoplastic differ from the bulk
due to the presence of the free surface. Here, molecular dynamics simulations are used to …

Fabrication of flat and sizeable nanocellular polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) foam with tunable thermal conductivity

KF Gebremedhin, SD Tolcha, SK Yeh - Polymer Engineering & … - Wiley Online Library
Polymeric nanocell foam is a promising material that faces manufacturing challenges.
Producing sizable and thick foams for properties testing has been challenging. This study …