Browsing Waterloo Research by Subject "polymer foams"
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Adsorption of surface-modified silica nanoparticles to the interface of melt poly (lactic acid) and supercritical carbon dioxide
(ACS Publications, 2015-04-28)With the purpose of fabricating polymer nanocomposite foams and preventing coalescence in foaming processes, the interfacial tension of poly (lactic acid) (PLA) -silica composites is investigated in this work. Synthesized ... -
Evaluating Characteristic Parameters for Carbon Dioxide in the Sanchez−Lacombe Equation of State
(American Chemical Society, 2017)For many different pure substances, large numbers of competing characteristic parameter sets exist in the literature for the Sanchez−Lacombe equation of state. This is due in part to differing research requirements or ... -
Maximal cell density predictions for compressible polymer foams
(Elsevier, 2012-12-05)Thermodynamic upper bounds for polymer foam cell densities are predicted using compressible selfconsistent field theory. It is found that the incompressible limit always gives the highest, and therefore ultimate, upper ... -
Towards Maximal Cell Density Predictions for Polymeric Foams
(Elsevier, 2011-10-04)Self-consistent field theory is used to make direct predictions for the maximum possible cell densities for model polymer foam systems without recourse to classical nucleation theory or activation barrier kinetic arguments. ...