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Porous materials with tunable mechanical properties

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We present a study of the mechanical properties of porous polymer materials elaborated from the controlled formulation of emulsions and using a polyHIPE templating approach. This consists in the polymerization of high internal phase water-in-oil emulsions of controlled average size and dispersed phase volume fraction. We investigate the evolution of the linear and non-linear mechanical properties as a function of two sets of parameters, that define the structure (namely pore size and volume fraction) and the composition (chemical composition of the polymer walls) of the material. Pore sizes and volume fraction were varied by tuning the initial emulsion size and volume fraction while the solid wall composition was varied by using a mixture of monomers which yield polymers with very different glass transition temperatures T g (namely styrene and ethyl hexyl acrylate which yield polymers with a high and low T g respectively). Unlike the classical models, the two components model that we developed is able to account for the dependence of the measured mechanical properties on the cell size and porosity values. We show that the foam mechanical properties are mainly governed by the T g of the blends. The foams are shown to vary from an elastic-brittle system to a soft ductile material as the proportion of EHA is increased.

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The French National Agency for Research (ANR) is gratefully acknowledged for funding the LIght STRuctures And Composites (LISTRAC) project. The authors thank M. Birot for performing porometry measurements and F. Lequeux for fruitful discussions

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  1. Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal – CNRS, University of Bordeaux, 33 600, Pessac, France

    G. Ceglia, A. Merlin, V. Schmitt & O. Mondain-Monval

  2. DUMAS Department, Institut de Mécanique et d’Ingénierie, University of Bordeaux, 33 600, Pessac, France

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Ceglia, G., Merlin, A., Viot, P. et al. Porous materials with tunable mechanical properties. J Porous Mater 21, 903–912 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10934-014-9831-6

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