Noise pollution impacts the well-being of millions of people on a daily basis and can lead to
serious health issues such as hearing loss and stress. Developing efficient yet cost-effective …

Aspects of the modeling of the thermal conductivity of polymer foams and a CO 2 foaming
process for the preparation of micro/nano-cellular polymer materials for insulating …

This paper is focused on demonstrating that it is possible to reduce the thermal conductivity
of polymeric foams by reducing the average cell size below the micron. For this purpose, a …

Supercritical carbon dioxide is known to swell and plasticize poly (methyl methacrylate),
PMMA, dramatically. We have employed a pressure quench in a CO2‐swollen PMMA …

Nanoporous polymeric materials are porous materials with pore sizes in the nanometer
range (ie, below 200 nm), processed as bulk or film materials, and from a wide set of …

Polymer Foams are used in many different types of applications and it is hard to find an area
where they are not utilised. Polyolefin Foams are a relatively recent development compared …

Microllular plastics are cellular polymers characterized by cell densities greater than 109
cells/cm3 and cells smaller than 10 μm. One of the critical steps in the continuous production …

In this work, high strength, flexible and cycling-stable piezoresistive thermoplastic
polyurethane (TPU)/multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) composite foams were …

Solubilities of carbon dioxide and nitrogen in molten polypropylene (PP) and high-density
polyethylene (HDPE) were measured at temperatures 433.2, 453.2, and 473.2 K and …

The foaming of polystyrene using supercritical (SC) CO2 has been studied to better
understand the microcellular foaming process, as we plan future studies that involve the …