Preparation of aligned porous chitin nanowhisker foams by directional freeze-casting technique

Carbohydrate Polymers

Volumn 112, Issue , 2014, Pages 277-283

  Zhou, Yiming ^a,b   Fu, Shiyu ^a   Pu, Yunqiao ^b   Pan, Shaobo ^b   Ragauskas, Arthur J ^b  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aligned porous structures; Chitin foams; Directional freeze casting; Slurry formulation

Indexed keywords

FREEZING; POROSITY; SCAFFOLDS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ALIGNED POROUS STRUCTURES; CHITIN NANOWHISKERS; DIRECTIONAL FREEZING; FREEZE-CASTING; FREEZING CONDITIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; MULTI-LAYERED COMPOSITES; SLURRY FORMULATION;

CHITIN;

CELLULOSE; CHITIN; NANOMATERIAL; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; VISCOELASTIC SUBSTANCE;

CHEMISTRY; FREEZING; POROSITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CELLULOSE; CHITIN; FREEZING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NANOSTRUCTURES; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; POROSITY; VISCOELASTIC SUBSTANCES;

EID: 84903648557     PISSN: 01448617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2014.05.062     Document Type: Article

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