
Foaming with Supercritical Fluids
Description
Key Features
- Offers strong fundamentals on polymer properties important on foaming
- Outlines the use of supercritical fluids for foaming
- Covers theoretical points-of-view, including foam formation of the polymer/gas solution to the setting of the final foam
- Discusses the several processing technologies and applications
Readership
Graduate and undergraduate students; industry specialists
Table of Contents
1. Foams and their applications
2. Foam technologies
3. Gas foaming with physical blowing agents
4. Supercritical fluids
5. Sorption thermodynamics of low molecular weight compounds in polymers
6. Mass transport of low molecular weight compounds in polymers
7. Interfacial tension
8. Rheological properties
9. Thermal properties of polymer-penetrant mixtures
10. Bubble nucleation
11. Bubble growth
12. Continuous processing
13. Batch processing
14. Molding processes
15. Ongoing research and future research challenges
Product details
- No. of pages: 484
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2021
- Published: November 6, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780444637246
- eBook ISBN: 9780444637369
About the Authors
Ernesto Di Maio
Affiliations and Expertise
Salvatore Iannace
Affiliations and Expertise
Giuseppe Mensitieri
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About the Series Editor
Erdogan Kiran
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