Porosity tailoring mechanisms in sonicated polymeric foams

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Torres Sanchez, C ^a   Corney, J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIO-ENGINEERS; CELLULAR MICROSTRUCTURE; CONVECTION AND DIFFUSION; CONVECTIVE MASS TRANSFER; FLEXIBLE PROCESS; FUNCTIONALLY GRADED; MASS BALANCE; MASS FLUX; MATRIX; MECHANICAL WORK; POLYMERIC FOAMS; POLYMERIZATION REACTION; THERMAL PROPERTIES; ULTRASONIC IRRADIATION; ULTRASOUND IRRADIATION; UNDERLYING MECHANISM; VARIABLE POROSITY;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BLOWING AGENTS; COAGULATION; GELATION; IRRADIATION; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; POLYMERIZATION; POROSITY; PROCESS CONTROL; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; ULTRASONICS; VOID FRACTION;

POLYMERS;

EID: 70350690735     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/18/10/104001     Document Type: Article

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