Evaluation of silica aerogel-reinforced polyurethane foams for footwear applications

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Yang, Guang, Liu, Xueyang, Lipik, Vitali
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2019
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials; Silica Aerogels; Polyurethane Foams
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/90150; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48406
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

In this work, a simple way to create a nanocellular structure within polyurethane (PU) foam was developed by the incorporation of silica aerogels, and the resultant foams were evaluated for footwear applications. To protect the brittle aerogels from breakage, the softness of PU foams was first tailo...