Foam 3D printing of thermoplastics: A symbiosis of additive manufacturing and foaming technology

M Nofar, J Utz, N Geis, V Altstädt… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Due to their light‐weight and cost‐effectiveness, cellular thermoplastic foams are considered
as important engineering materials. On the other hand, additive manufacturing or 3D printing …

Current Trend and New Opportunities for Multifunctional Bio-Scaffold Fabrication via High-Pressure Foaming

MA Fanovich, E Di Maio, A Salerno - Journal of Functional Biomaterials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Biocompatible and biodegradable foams prepared using the high-pressure foaming
technique have been widely investigated in recent decades as porous scaffolds for in vitro …

Strategies to introduce topographical and structural cues in 3D‐printed scaffolds and implications in tissue regeneration

L Iturriaga, KD Van Gordon… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Regeneration of tissues represents a current challenge and a need to treat damage and
diseased organs, and is becoming determinant to alleviate the burden of healthcare systems …

A Review of the Preparation of Porous Fibers and Porous Parts by a Novel Micro-Extrusion Foaming Technique

Z Wang, H Huang, Y Wang, M Zhou, W Zhai - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
This review introduces an innovative technology termed “Micro-Extrusion Foaming (MEF)”,
which amalgamates the merits of physical foaming and 3D printing. It presents a …

Forefront Research of Foaming Strategies on Biodegradable Polymers and Their Composites by Thermal or Melt-Based Processing Technologies: Advances and …

LFFF Gonçalves, RL Reis, EM Fernandes - Polymers, 2024 - mdpi.com
The last few decades have witnessed significant advances in the development of polymeric-
based foam materials. These materials find several practical applications in our daily lives …

TPU-based porous heterostructures by combined techniques

A Longo, D Giannetti, D Tammaro… - International Polymer …, 2022 - degruyter.com
The production of thermoplastic polyurethane-based porous heterostructures combining
physical foaming with fused deposition modeling is detailed in this contribution. The choice …

Design and fabrication of partially foamed grid structure using additive manufacturing and solid state foaming

BK Park, CJ Kim, DE Kwon, YW Lee - Processes, 2020 - mdpi.com
A partially foamed lattice structure based on synthetic polymers was considered as a
functionally graded materials due to their unique properties. In this study, a copolymer is …

Solid-state foaming of acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene/recycled polyethylene terephthalate using carbon dioxide as a blowing agent

DE Kwon, BK Park, YW Lee - Polymers, 2019 - mdpi.com
In this study, a single paragraph of acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS)/recycled
polyethylene terephthalate (R-PET) polymeric foams is prepared using CO2 as a blowing …

Morphological evaluation of microcellular foamed composites developed through gas batch foaming integrating Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) 3D printing …

G Radhakrishna, R Dugad, A Gandhi - Cellular Polymers, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, the development of microcellular structure foams has developed by integrating
the two successful and existing technologies, namely CO2 gas batch foaming and Fused …

Microwave foaming of carbon dioxide saturated poly lactic acid

S Srinivas Sundarram, N Ibekwe… - Polymer Engineering …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Micro cellular polymer foams find numerous applications such as in filtration, tissue
scaffolds, insulation, and catalyst carriers. This study reports on a solvent free approach to …