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 …

In recent years, carbon dioxide (CO2) has proven to be an environmentally friendly foaming
agent for the production of polymeric foams. Until now, extrusion is used to scale-up the CO2 …

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 …

This study has been dedicated to the foaming of modified poly (lactic acid) with supercritical
CO 2. The first part of this work consisted in a rheological modification of neat PLA through …

Could the reduction of the cell size to the nanometer range yield better mechanical
properties than those of microcellular and conventional foams? This study answers this …

A series of long-chain branched polyamide 6 samples (LCB PA6s) with well-defined branch
length were successfully fabricated via reactive extrusion by tuning various linear PA6s as …

The high density and poor thermal insulation of traditional wood-plastic composites limited
the application in the field of building materials. In this paper, wood fiber (WF) and PLA were …

Polylactic acid (PLA) is a well-known and commercially available biopolymer that can be
produced from different sources. Its different characteristics generated a great deal of …

This paper shows how fused decomposition modeling (FDM), as a three-dimensional (3D)
printing technology, can engineer lightweight porous foams with controllable density. The …

Poor aqueous solubility of drug candidates is a major challenge for the pharmaceutical
scientists involved in drug development. Particle size reduction appears as an effective and …