Monodisperse Highly Ordered and Polydisperse Biobased Solid Foams

By Sébastien Andrieux

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030278344
• ISBN13: 9783030278342
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 137 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"