Monodisperse Highly Ordered and Polydisperse Biobased Solid Foams
Authors: Andrieux, Sébastien
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- Provides an introduction to the science of foam templating
- Describes a novel use of microfluidics for polydisperse foam generation
- Presents the first example of a biobased monodisperse nanocomposite foam
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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.
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-8
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Theoretical Background
Pages 9-48
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Preliminary Work: From Liquid to Solid Foams
Pages 49-65
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Monodisperse and Polydisperse Chitosan Foams via Microfluidics
Pages 67-90
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Monodisperse Highly Ordered Nanocomposite Foams
Pages 91-103
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Monodisperse Highly Ordered and Polydisperse Biobased Solid Foams
- Authors
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- Sébastien Andrieux
- Series Title
- Springer Theses
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-27832-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-27832-8
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-27831-1
- Series ISSN
- 2190-5053
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXXIII, 137
- Number of Illustrations
- 47 b/w illustrations, 51 illustrations in colour
- Topics
