Highly structured porous solids from liquid foam templates

Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects

Volumn 346, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 5-10

  van der Net, Antje ^a,b   Gryson, Alexander ^c   Ranft, Meik ^b   Elias, Florence ^c,d   Stubenrauch, Cosima ^e   Drenckhan, Wiebke ^c  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b BASF SE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e University College Dublin   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Crystalline structures; Liquid foam; Microporous material; Polymerisation; Templating

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; LIQUIDS; MICROPOROSITY; MICROPOROUS MATERIALS; POLYMERIZATION; POLYMERS;

CRYSTALLINE STRUCTURES; FOAM GENERATION; IN-SITU; LENGTH SCALE; LIQUID FOAM; MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT; ORDERED FOAMS; POLYMERISATION; POROUS SOLIDS; TEMPLATING;

LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS;

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CROSS LINKING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FOAM; HYDROGEL; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NANOPORE; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; SOLID STATE;

EID: 67650759400     PISSN: 09277757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2009.05.010     Document Type: Article

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