材料科学
复合材料
收缩率
聚氨酯
弹性体
热塑性聚氨酯
膨胀率
发泡剂
微波食品加热
物理
量子力学
作者
Weiying Zhong,Dongdong Hu,X. Q. Jia,Hongfa Yu,Yuanwei Wang,Lei Ke,Xiulei Jiang,Jongmin Yu,Yichong Chen,Ling Zhao
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.cej.2023.148402
摘要
The production of elastomer foam commonly faces challenges like low production efficiency, limited controllability, uneven foaming, and inherent shrinkage characteristics, especially in manufacturing thick foam sheets. Addressing these, this study introduces innovative "semi-continuous foaming with ultra-low-pressure" (SFU) strategy that integrates low-temperature gas-locking, conduction-microwave heating, and N2-assisted gas-exchange, aimed at optimizing the entire process of TPU foam production, from manufacturing and storage to post-processing. The low-temperature gas-locking scheme realizes semi-continuous preparation of elastomer foam; the conduction-microwave heating scheme significantly improves the heating speed and uniformity; and the N2-assisted gas exchange scheme prevents elastomer foam shrinkage, facilitating the creation of high expansion ratio foam. This process offers the flexibility to adjust initial cell sizes (5–30 μm after shrinkage) and expansion ratios (1–24 times) by manipulating parameters such as microwave radiation time, power, and saturation time. Furthermore, the foam was prepared under ultra-low pressure (<7 MPa), resulting in a final expansion exceeding 14.2 times TPU thick sheet (5 mm thickness before foaming) foam with excellent resilience (energy loss coefficient ∼ 10 % and ball resilience ∼ 68.8 %). This study explores the mechanism by which TPU can self-absorb during microwave heating and extends this process to TPU materials with varying thicknesses (16.5 mm thickness before foaming) and chain compositions, as well as different types of elastomeric materials or materials with elastomer-like properties (e.g., PBAT, etc.). The SFU strategy not only significantly reduces energy and gas consumption but also steers the technological advancement of foam production towards a greener and more sustainable future.
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