Advanced Nano Cellular Foams
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Synthesis, Interfaces and Nanostructures".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 4218
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nanocellular polymers; functionalized polymers; environmental remediation; polymer nanocomposites; smart materials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nanocellular polymer foams have emerged in the last decade as an exciting research field that has not stopped growing. In about ten years, the smallest achievable cell size of these materials has been decreased by two orders of magnitude, from about 1 micron to 10 nm. This achievement has required a deep understanding of cell nucleation and growing mechanisms, overcoming technical limitations, and developing enhanced approaches not only to produce polymer foams but to characterize their morphology and physical properties. However, there is still plenty of room to pursue the optimization and further development and understanding of these materials, which could lead to the production of advanced high-performance materials for a wide range of applications.
Particularly, the enhanced physical properties of nanocellular foams, or even unexpected emerging properties related to the nanometric dimensions of their porous structure, offer unique opportunities for diverse applications such as thermal insulation, catalysis, gas separation or storage, environmental remediation, sensoring, drug delivery, etc.
This Special Issue aims to highlight the most recent advances in the development of nanocellular polymer foams, as well as other advanced nanoporous systems with common features, the study of their morphology and physical properties, the improvement of the understanding of their production routes, and their potential applications.
We kindly invite you to submit a high-quality contribution to this Special Issue of Nanomaterials, entitled “Advanced Nanocellular Foams.” Reviews and original research articles are all welcome.
Dr. Javier Pinto
Dr. Suset Barroso-Solares
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Nanocellular Polymers
- Polymer foam
- Functional porous materials
- Transparent foams
- Advanced thermal insulation
