Monodisperse Highly Ordered and Polydisperse Biobased Solid Foams

• Main Author: Andrieux, Sébastien (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Polymers .; Amorphous substances.; Complex fluids.; Biomaterials.; Engineering-Materials.; Polymer Sciences.; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.; Materials Engineering.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Theoretical Background
• Preliminary Work: From Liquid to Solid Foams
• Monodispers and Polydisperse Chitosan Foams via Microfluidics,. Monodisperse Highly Ordered Nanocomposite Foams
• General Conclusion and Outlook
• Experimental.