The importance of low-density microcellular closed-cell thermoplastic foams over
conventional macrocellular ones has been demonstrated over the years in several areas of …

Polyurethane foam is a polymeric material having cellular structure. Multifunctional
polyurethane foams reinforced with nanofiller have combined enhanced specific properties …

The worldwide production of polymeric foam materials is growing due to their advantageous
properties of light weight, high thermal insulation, good strength, resistance and rigidity …

Elastomer foams have been widely used in many applications and have shown potential in
some advanced fields because of their excellent flexibility. Elastomers foamed with a …

For a long time, the number of available bead foam variants limited to standard polymers
which restricted their functionality mainly to packaging, thermal insulation (eg in …

The steam-chest molding process can be used to prepare molded bead foams, including
expandable polystyrene (EPS), expanded polyethylene (EPE), expanded polypropylene …

This study investigates the foaming behavior of TPU samples with three different soft
segment (SS) molecular weights of 1000, 2000, and 3500 g/mol. The variation of SS length …

Cell stabilization of TPU foams made from supercritical CO 2 (scCO 2) foaming remains a
huge challenge and significantly limits TPU foams' applications. One key point is the …

A lab-scale reactor was used to investigate the foaming behavior of three different
thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) grades with different hard segment (HS) contents of …

Owing to the superior thermal insulating attributes of rigid polyurethane foam (RPUF)
compared to other insulating materials (expanded and extruded polystyrene, mineral wool) …