Monodisperse Highly Ordered and Polydisperse Biobased Solid Foams
- Collana:
- Springer Theses
- EAN:
9783030278342
- ISBN:
3030278344
- Pagine:
- 172
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Tedesco
Descrizione 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 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 foamswith a tuneable polydispersity.
