Nowadays, polymeric foams have attracted particular attention in scientific and industrial
societies due to their unique properties, such as high strength to weight ratio, excellent …

Injection moulding is a well-established replication process for the cost-effective
manufacture of polymer-based components. The process has different applications in fields …

Heat-insulation and oil-water separation are critical issues in the area of energy
conservation and environmental protection. Developing high-expansion open-cell polymer …

Due to special micro-nano scale heat transfer effect and the ultra-large specific area,
nanocellular polymer foams (NPFs), especially NPFs with high porosity, have great …

Thermal insulation is vital for achieving efficient thermal management, energy conservation,
and emission reduction. However, the existing polymer foams still have some performance …

This work aims to predict the thermal conductivity of microcellular and nanocellular thermal
insulation foams to explore the correlation between the cellular structure and the thermal …

In nanocellular foam production, achieving cell sizes less than 100 nm with low relative
densities is challenging. In this study, poly (methyl methacrylate)(PMMA) was blended with …

Organic polymers can be made porous via continuous or discontinuous expansion
processes in scCO2. The resulting foams properties are controlled by the interplay of three …

Among the various mechanisms playing a role in the heat transfer through nanocellular
polymers, the radiation contribution remains the most unknown, since there is a lack of …

A strategy of CO2‐assisted extrusion foaming of PMMA‐based materials was established to
minimize both foam density and porosities dimension. First a highly CO2‐philic block …