Abstract:
The invention relates to a porous polymer monolith based on a polymerizable emulsion with high inner phase (polyHIPE) that is hyper cross-linked. The invention further relates to the production and use thereof, preferably as gas storage material.
Abstract:
The invention discloses methods for making foams by photopolymerizing emulsions comprising a reactive phase and a phase immiscible with the reactive phase components. Foams made from water-in-oil emulsions, including high internal phase emulsion are disclosed. Articles and uses for the foams are also described.
Abstract:
Disclosed are polymeric foam materials obtained using monomers based on silicon and/or germanium. The copolymerization of silicon- or germanium-based monomers provide foams that have low glass transition temperatures and low densities. These foams also exhibit relatively high yield stress values, which make the foams suitable for absorption of fluids, particularly aqueous fluids such as urine and menses (when the foams are rendered hydrophilic). The foams have a variety of other uses, including insulation applications.
Abstract:
Fluoropolymer is advantageously foamed by first forming a composite structure of a layer of the fluoropolymer to be foamed and a layer of different material such as a different fluoropolymer not to be foamed, followed by heating the composite structure to the foamable state for the layer of fluoropolymer to be foamed, pressurizing the heated composite structure with supercritical carbon dioxide, rapidly depressurizing the heated composite structure, whereby the foamable layer foams and the other layer foams less or not at all, and cooling the foamed composite structure.
Abstract:
Des mousses hydrofuges ordinaires, telles que des mousses de polyuréthane et des mousses polymérisées en émulsion huileuse, sont rendues hydrophiles par traitement avec de simples tensio-actifs et des sels d'agent d'hydrophilisation. Ainsi, une mousse contenant un tensio-actif est traitée, par exemple, avec une solution de chlorure de calcium, et est séchée afin de laisser un résidu de chlorure de calcium hydraté ou hydratable, réparti pratiquement uniformément sur les surfaces internes de la mousse contenant un tensio-actif. La combinaison de tensio-actif et d'hydrate de chlorure de calcium donne à la mousse une surface hydrophile. D'autres sels de calcium ou de magnésium hydratables, tels que du chlorure de magnésium, peuvent être utilisés. Les mousses hydrophilisées obtenues sont appropriées pour être utilisées dans des éléments absorbants, y compris des couches, des serviettes hygiéniques, des bandages ou analogue.
Abstract:
The invention relates to polyolefin foams consisting of polyolefins of ultrahigh molecular weight, i.e. weight-average molecular weight from about 4 x 10⁵ to 6 x 10⁶ g/mol and higher, and to a novel process for producing these foams by foaming a solution of a polyolefin of ultrahigh molecular weight in a solvent with the use of a physical or chemical blowing agent or of an inert gas blown into the solution, and cooling of the resulting foam to a temperature below the gelling tempereature of the polyolefin. If appropriate, these foams can be provided wholly or partially with a smooth skin on their surface by superficial cooling, if appropriate under the action of pressure. These foams are distinguished by high tensile strength and impact strength values, shock-absorbing properties, low glass transition temperatures, low embrittlement at low temperatures and high chemical resistance, and they are used especially as mechanical and acoustic insulating materials, materials of construction, filter agents and implantation materials.