Tailoring mechanical properties of highly porous polymer foams: Silica particle reinforced polymer foams via emulsion templating

Graphene/poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) hydrogel with excellent mechanical performance and high conductivity

“…Thus the fracture press of the EGP hydrogels raised as the mass of EDOT increased. For EGP3 hydrogel, the large amount of PEDOT clusters filled in hydrogel materials could absorb the stresses through deformation and irreversible breakdown under an external force [40,41], endowing the hydrogel with additional mechanical strength.…”

Preparation and yielding behavior of pendular network suspensions

“…Specifically, the very simple method-"add liquid and mix"-of realizing a yield stress offers a convenient way of stabilizing a structure temporarily before it can be made permanent, e.g., by sintering or crosslinking [15]. Furthermore, open pore morphologies can be realized readily in such systems [9,[16][17][18] with immediate relevance to applications in which chemical transport or fluid retention must be combined with mechanical strength. Indeed applications to materials science are not restricted to suspensions with capillary forces-a diverse set of particle/fluid/liquid mixtures can, depending on the materials and composition, yield a variety morphologies of potential interest to materials science [15], including Pickering emulsions [8,19], particle-stabilized foams [20][21][22], bijels [18,23], wet granular materials [1,24,25], and liquid marbles [26,27].…”

Synthesis and properties of polystyrene-based polyHIPEs reinforced with quadruple hydrogen bond functionality

“…Bismarck's group has done many work in this field [29][30][31][32][33][34]. The polyHIPEs were synthesized from HIPEs containing styrene (St, served as monomer) and divinylbenzene (DVB, employed as crosslinker) as the external phase.…”