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Record Nr.

UNINA9910349512803321

Autore

Andrieux Sébastien

Titolo

Monodisperse Highly Ordered and Polydisperse Biobased Solid Foams / / by Sébastien Andrieux

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-27832-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (165 pages)

Collana

Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research, , 2190-5053

Disciplina

671.8

668.493

Soggetti

Polymers

Amorphous substances

Complex fluids

Biomaterials

Engineering—Materials

Polymer Sciences

Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics

Materials Engineering

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Theoretical Background -- Preliminary Work: From Liquid to Solid Foams -- Monodispers and Polydisperse Chitosan Foams via Microfluidics,. Monodisperse Highly Ordered Nanocomposite Foams -- General Conclusion and Outlook -- Experimental.

Sommario/riassunto

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.