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Transport Properties of One-Step Compression Molded Epoxy Nanocomposite Foams
Owing to their high strength and stiffness, thermal and environmental stability, lower shrinkage, and water resistance, epoxy resins have been the preferred matrix for the development of syntactic foams using hollow glass microspheres. Although these foams are exploited in multiple applications, one...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6572515/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31052215 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym11050756 |
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author | Martin-Gallego, Mario Lopez-Hernandez, Emil Pinto, Javier Rodriguez-Perez, Miguel A. Lopez-Manchado, Miguel A. Verdejo, Raquel |
author_facet | Martin-Gallego, Mario Lopez-Hernandez, Emil Pinto, Javier Rodriguez-Perez, Miguel A. Lopez-Manchado, Miguel A. Verdejo, Raquel |
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description | Owing to their high strength and stiffness, thermal and environmental stability, lower shrinkage, and water resistance, epoxy resins have been the preferred matrix for the development of syntactic foams using hollow glass microspheres. Although these foams are exploited in multiple applications, one of their issues is the possibility of breakage of the glass hollow microspheres during processing. Here, we present a straightforward and single-step foaming protocol using expandable polymeric microspheres based on the well-established compression molding process. We demonstrate the viability of the protocol producing two sets of nanocomposite foams filled with carbon-based nanoparticles with improved transport properties. |
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spelling | pubmed-65725152019-06-18 Transport Properties of One-Step Compression Molded Epoxy Nanocomposite Foams Martin-Gallego, Mario Lopez-Hernandez, Emil Pinto, Javier Rodriguez-Perez, Miguel A. Lopez-Manchado, Miguel A. Verdejo, Raquel Polymers (Basel) Article Owing to their high strength and stiffness, thermal and environmental stability, lower shrinkage, and water resistance, epoxy resins have been the preferred matrix for the development of syntactic foams using hollow glass microspheres. Although these foams are exploited in multiple applications, one of their issues is the possibility of breakage of the glass hollow microspheres during processing. Here, we present a straightforward and single-step foaming protocol using expandable polymeric microspheres based on the well-established compression molding process. We demonstrate the viability of the protocol producing two sets of nanocomposite foams filled with carbon-based nanoparticles with improved transport properties. MDPI 2019-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6572515/ /pubmed/31052215 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym11050756 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Martin-Gallego, Mario Lopez-Hernandez, Emil Pinto, Javier Rodriguez-Perez, Miguel A. Lopez-Manchado, Miguel A. Verdejo, Raquel Transport Properties of One-Step Compression Molded Epoxy Nanocomposite Foams |
title | Transport Properties of One-Step Compression Molded Epoxy Nanocomposite Foams |
title_full | Transport Properties of One-Step Compression Molded Epoxy Nanocomposite Foams |
title_fullStr | Transport Properties of One-Step Compression Molded Epoxy Nanocomposite Foams |
title_full_unstemmed | Transport Properties of One-Step Compression Molded Epoxy Nanocomposite Foams |
title_short | Transport Properties of One-Step Compression Molded Epoxy Nanocomposite Foams |
title_sort | transport properties of one-step compression molded epoxy nanocomposite foams |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6572515/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31052215 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym11050756 |
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