Monodisperse Highly Ordered and Polydisperse Biobased Solid Foams

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 protection, and tissue engineering. They are lightweight with large surface-to-volume ratios, and have excellent mechanical, acoustic, and thermal properties. However, most foaming processes are extremely complex, and there remains a lack of sound scientific understanding ofand therefore control overthe parameters that determine the properties of the material. One route towards tailor-made solid foams is liquid foam templating, where the liquid foam is generated first (with the desired structure) before being solidified into a solid foam with the desired structure. This book describes how liquid foam templating can be used to synthesise monodisperse solid foams as well as solid foamswith a tuneable polydispersity.

Nominated as an outstanding PhD thesis by the University of Stuttgart, Germany Provides an introduction to the science of foam templating Describes a novel use of microfluidics for polydisperse foam generation Presents the first example of a biobased monodisperse nanocomposite foam

Inhalt
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.