What is it about?
We coat a polymeric nanofoam with a metal to strengthen and stiffen the material.
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Why is it important?
Light weigh structures and materials that can tolerate high temperatures and harsh environments are difficult to form. We use the ease of making polymer nanofoams using electrospinning together with a scalable electroplating process to show a path to making strong, lightweight metallic foams for applications like filters and catalyst supports.
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This work was a collaboration between a visiting student at Purdue from Imperial College (Aiga), our graduate students here at Purdue, and partners at Montana Tech. It's leading to continued collaborations between the team, and we hope to have more results on similar systems.
David F Bahr
Purdue University System
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This page is a summary of: Nanomechanics and Testing of Core-Shell Composite Ligaments for High Strength, Light Weight Foams, MRS Advances, January 2017, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1557/adv.2017.480.
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