Ultra-lightweight paper foams: Processing and properties

Cellulose

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2023-2031

  Madani, A ^a   Zeinoddini, S ^a   Varahmi, S ^a   Turnbull, H ^b   Phillion, A B ^b   Olson, J A ^a   Martinez, D M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cellulose fibres; Foam forming; Lightweight materials; Papermaking

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; NOBELIUM; PAPERMAKING; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; TENSILE STRENGTH; TEXTILE FIBERS;

CELLULOSE FIBRES; CELLULOSE MATERIALS; LENGTH DISTRIBUTIONS; LIGHTWEIGHT MATERIALS; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; PROCESS PARAMETERS; PROCESSING AND PROPERTIES; RANDOM ORIENTATIONS;

PULP;

CELLULOSE; CELLULOSE FIBERS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; PAPER MAKING; PULPS; SURFACTANTS; TENSILE STRENGTH; TEXTILE FIBERS;

EID: 84901189498     PISSN: 09690239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10570-014-0197-3     Document Type: Article

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