Monodisperse Highly Ordered And Polydisperse Biobased Solid Foams (Springer Theses)

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.

• | Author: Sébastien Andrieux
• | Publisher: Springer
• | Publication Date: Sep 03, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 170 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 303027831X
• | ISBN-13: 9783030278311