Loading…
Monodisperse Highly Ordered and Polydisperse Biobased Solid Foams
This book discusses the synthesis of chitosan-based solid foams using foam templating. Solid foams with pore sizes between a few micrometres and a few millimetres are widely used in a range of established and emerging applications, including filtration, catalysis, sound and thermal insulation, human...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Corporate Author: | |
| Format: | e-Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cham :
Springer International Publishing :
2019.
Imprint: Springer, |
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019. |
| Series: | Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Full-text access |
| Summary: | This book discusses the synthesis of chitosan-based solid foams using foam templating. Solid foams with pore sizes between a few micrometres and a few millimetres are widely used in a range of established and emerging applications, including filtration, catalysis, sound and thermal insulation, human protection, and tissue engineering. They are lightweight with large surface-to-volume ratios, and have excellent mechanical, acoustic, and thermal properties. However, most foaming processes are extremely complex, and there remains a lack of sound scientific understanding of-and therefore control over-the parameters that determine the properties of the material. One route towards tailor-made solid foams is liquid foam templating, where the liquid foam is generated first (with the desired structure) before being solidified into a solid foam with the desired structure. This book describes how liquid foam templating can be used to synthesise monodisperse solid foams as well as solid foams with a tuneable polydispersity. |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | XXXIII, 137 p. 98 illus., 51 illus. in color. online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9783030278328 |
| ISSN: | 2190-5061 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-27832-8 |