Polymeric Foams
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2018) | Viewed by 102510
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Interests: polymers; composites; foams; nanocomposites
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Interests: additives; aerogels; composites; conductivity; extrusion; films; foaming; foams; foils; fracture; graphene; ignifugation; membranes; molding; nanocomposites; nanoparticles; oxides; permeability; polyfunctional materials; polymers; processing; properties; resistance; silicates; structure; supercritical fluid
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Advances in nanotechnology have boosted the development of more efficient materials, with emerging sectors (electronics, energy, aerospace, among others) demanding novel materials to fulfil the complex technical requirements of their products. This is the case for polymeric foams, which may display good structural properties alongside functional characteristics through complex compositions and structures, in which a gaseous phase is combined with rigid ones, mainly based on nanoparticles, dispersed throughout the matrix.
In the last few years, there has been an important impulse in the development of “nanocomposite foams”, extending the concept of nanocomposite to the field of cellular materials. This, alongside the developments in new advanced foaming technologies, which have allowed generating new foams with micro, sub-micro and even nanocellular structures, has extended the applications of more traditional foams in terms of weight reduction, damping, thermal and/or acoustic insulation, to novel possibilities, such as electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding.
This Special Issue considers recent research on novel polymer-based foams in all their aspects: design, composition, fabrication, microstructure, characterization and analysis, application and service behavior, recycling, etc.
Manuscripts related to the following topics will be welcomed in this Special Issue:
- Thermoplastic and thermosetting polymer foams.
- Biopolymer foams.
- Nanocomposite foams.
- Microcellular, sub-microcellular and nanocellular foams.
- Close-cell, open-cell and interconnected-cell foams.
- Unimodal and multimodal foams.
- Chemical and physical foaming methods.
- Recycling of foams.
- Biodegradable foams.
- Flame retardant foams.
- Thermally and electrically conductive polymer foams.
- New applications of foams, including electronics, batteries, fuel cells, catalysis, separation and filtration, EMI shielding, electrostatic discharge (ESD), electrostatic painting, tissue engineering, etc.
Dr. Marcelo Antunes
Prof. José Ignacio Velasco
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Polymeric foams
- cellular composites
- nanocomposites foams
- functional foams
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