Foaming polymers is usually done by chemical or physical blowing, but templating methods gained interest if the porosity and pore structure have to be controlled. Foam or air-templating was invented as a means to create polymer foams without the need for blowing agents: all that is needed is a “kitchen” blender. While it is relatively easy to create and stabilise aqueous foams it is significantly harder to create non-aqueous foams. We will introduce an easy route to produce mechanically robust porous polymers with adjustable density from aqueous monomer/prepolymer formulations, which is also applicable to non-aqueous monomer systems with attractive mechanical properties. It will also be shown that the developed foaming method is intrinsically scalable.

Whipping monomers, producing foam templates: Route to porous polymers

Macromolecular Chemistry: The Second Century

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