Abstract:
The invention relates to processes for producing melamine-formaldehyde foams comprising the consecutive steps a) and b): a) heating a mixture comprising a melamine-formaldehyde precondensate, a curative and a blowing agent to foam up and crosslink said mixture, and b) tempering the foam obtained in step a), wherein it is essential to the present invention that - step a) utilizes a precondensate which has a melamine:formaldehyde molar ratio in the range from 1:2.1 to 1:3.9, and - which has a sulfite group content, based on the total weight of the melamine-formaldehyde precondensate, in the range from 0% to 1% by weight, and - said tempering in step b) is effected at a temperature in the range from 230 to 290°C, and also to melamine-formaldehyde foams obtainable according to the processes of the invention, and to uses thereof.
Abstract:
The invention relates to compounds for producing polymethacrylimide foam materials (PMI foams) with particularly good mechanical properties, in particular with a particularly advantageous elongation at tear. The invention further relates to methods for producing, processing, and using said foam materials. In particular, the invention relates to novel materials, the propensity of which to form tears is clearly reduced in comparison to the prior art. This is tantamount to an elongation at tear that is higher in comparison to the prior art.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for preparing a porous scaffold for tissue engineering. It is another object of the present invention to provide a porous scaffold obtainable by the method as above described, and its use for tissue engineering, cell culture and cell delivery. The method of the invention comprises the steps consisting of: a) preparing an alkaline aqueous solution comprising an amount of at least one polysaccharide, an amount of a cross-linking agent and an amount of a porogen agent b) transforming the solution into a hydrogel by placing said solution at a temperature from about 4° C. to about 80° C. for a sufficient time to allow the cross-linking of said amount of polysaccharide and c) submerging said hydrogel into an aqueous solution d) washing the porous scaffold obtained at step c).
Abstract:
An object of the present invention is to inexpensively provide a method and device of producing a high viscosity polylactic acid composition, which composition is appropriate for foam molding having a high expansion ratio and is stable, and a foam molded article having a high expansion ratio formed of said high viscosity polylactic acid composition. A method of producing a polylactic acid foam molded article of the present invention which can achieve the above-described object is characterized by comprising a step of mechanically grinding a polylactic acid composition by applying a shear force, using a device equipped with an injection molding machine (B) or an extrusion molding machine (G), an orifice portion (S) and a foaming mold (P), in a foaming gas atmosphere in the orifice portion (S). The above-described polylactic acid composition is obtained by mechanically grinding polylactic acid, which polylactic acid is cross-linked by polyisocyanate, by applying a shear force in an inert gas atmosphere, said polylactic acid composition obtained by the grinding being characterized by having an MI value of 0.05 or more and 5 or less, which MI value is measured at 190°C under a load of 21.6 kg in accordance with JIS K7210 (ISO 1133) ( Figure 2 ).
Abstract:
The present invention provides a foam which maintains high hardness while being lightweight and has excellent peel strength and permanent compression set, and a foamable composition used to obtain the aforementioned foam. A foamable composition comprising (A) an olefin-based copolymer; (B) a copolymer that is (B-I) and/or (B-II) described below, (B-I) a vinyl aromatic-based copolymer comprising a vinyl aromatic compound and a conjugated diene, and/or a vinyl aromatic-based copolymer comprising a vinyl aromatic compound and alkylene,(B-II) an ethylene-based copolymer having an unsaturated group; (C) an inorganic filler; (D) an organic silane coupling agent; and (E) a foaming agent; wherein a mass ratio of the component (A) to the component (B), (A/B), is from 5/95 to 100/0; an amount of the component (C) is from 0.5 to 35 mass parts, and an amount of the component (E) is from 0.1 to 20 mass parts, based on 100 mass parts of a total amount of the components (A) and (B); and an amount of the component (D) is from 0.1 to 50 mass parts, based on 100 mass parts of the component (C).
Abstract:
Die vorliegende Erfindung betrifft eine hitzehärtende Granulatmischung, welche ein erstes Granulat ( G1 ) sowie ein zweites, epoxidfreies, Granulat ( G2 ) umfasst. Das zweite, epoxidfreie, Granulat ( G2 ) umfasst mindestens einen hitzeaktivierbaren Beschleuniger ( B ) für die Härtung von Epoxid-Festharz ( A ) mit Dicyandiamid, mindestens ein bei Raumtemperatur fester Thermoplast ( T ) mit einem Erweichungspunkt von zwischen 70°C und 140°C gemessen nach der Ring & Kugel-Methode gemäss DIN EN 1238. Des Weiteren umfasst die hitzehärtende Granulatmischung umfasst Dicyandiamid, welches Teil des ersten ( G1 ) und/oder des zweiten ( G2 ) Granulates ist, sowie mindestens ein hitzeaktivierbares Treibmittel ( TM ), welches unabhängig von einander Teil des ersten ( G1 ) und/oder des zweiten ( G2 ) Granulates ist. Die hitzehärtende Granulatmischung zeichnet sich durch eine ausserordentliche Lagerstabilität und ein gutes Schäumungsverhalten aus.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a thermal and/or sound insulation system or material with resistance to elevated temperatures (>300 °C) due to a controlled self-ceramifying/self glassing/self-hardening effect which also leads to low or no combustibility, the process for manufacturing of such system or material and the use of such system or material.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a crosslinked foam having an excellent balance of various physical properties in terms of lightness, flexibility, permanent compression set, tear strength, impact resilience, and molding stability; a shoe midsole; and a crosslinkable and foamable composition that provides the crosslinked foam and shoe midsole. A crosslinkable and foamable composition comprising (A) an ethylene-based copolymer; (B) a copolymer comprising a vinyl aromatic monomer unit and an unsaturated bond-containing a conjugated diene monomer unit; (C) an organic peroxide; and (D) a foaming agent; a mass ratio of the component (A) to the component (B), (A/B), being from 97/3 to 50/50; and the component (B) comprising 5 mass% or more and 80 mass% or less of the vinyl aromatic monomer unit, and 5 mass% or more and 55 mass% or less of the conjugated diene monomer unit.
Abstract:
The invention relates to e new environmentally friendly process in which cellular containing PVC, such as rigid PVC foam can be recovered and reused in new products together with other components.