Monodisperse Highly Ordered and Polydisperse Biobased Solid Foams

Description

This book discusses the synthesis of chitosan-based solid foams using foam templating. Solid foams with pore sizes between a few micrometres and a few millimetres are widely used in a range of established and emerging applications, including filtration, catalysis, sound and thermal insulation, human protection, and tissue engineering. They are lightweight with large surface-to-volume ratios, and have excellent mechanical, acoustic, and thermal properties. However, most foaming processes are extremely complex, and there remains a lack of sound scientific understanding of—and therefore control over—the parameters that determine the properties of the material. One route towards tailor-made solid foams is liquid foam templating, where the liquid foam is generated first (with the desired structure) before being solidified into a solid foam with the desired structure. This book describes how liquid foam templating can be used to synthesise monodisperse solid foams as well as solid foams with a tuneable polydispersity. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxxiii Introduction (Sébastien Andrieux)....Pages 1-8 Theoretical Background (Sébastien Andrieux)....Pages 9-48 Preliminary Work: From Liquid to Solid Foams (Sébastien Andrieux)....Pages 49-65 Monodisperse and Polydisperse Chitosan Foams via Microfluidics (Sébastien Andrieux)....Pages 67-90 Monodisperse Highly Ordered Nanocomposite Foams (Sébastien Andrieux)....Pages 91-103 General Conclusions and Outlook (Sébastien Andrieux)....Pages 105-110 Experimental (Sébastien Andrieux)....Pages 111-123 Back Matter ....Pages 125-137