Wet foam stability from colloidal suspension to porous ceramics: A review

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Abstract

Porous ceramics are promising materials for a number of functional and structural applications that include thermal insulation, filters, bio-scaffolds for tissue engineering, and preforms for composite fabrication. These applications take advantage of the special characteristics of porous ceramics, such as low thermal mass, low thermal conductivity, high surface area, controlled permeability, and low density. In this review, we emphasize the direct foaming method, a simple and versatile approach that allows the fabrication of porous ceramics with tailored microstructure, along with distinctive properties. The wet foam stability is achieved under the controlled addition of amphiphiles to the colloidal suspension, which induce in situ hydrophobization, allowing the wet foam to resist coarsening and Ostwald ripening upon drying and sintering. Different components, like contact angle, adsorption free energy, air content, bubble size, and Laplace pressure, play vital roles in the stabilization of the particle stabilized wet foam to the porous ceramics. The mechanical behavior of the load-displacements curves of sintered samples was investigated using Herzian indentations testes. From the collected results, we found that microporous structures with pore sizes from 30 μm to 570 μm and the porosity within the range from 70% to 85%.

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Kim, I. J., Park, J. G., Han, Y. H., Kim, S. Y., & Shackelford, J. F. (2019). Wet foam stability from colloidal suspension to porous ceramics: A review. Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society, 56(3), 211–232. https://doi.org/10.4191/kcers.2019.56.3.02

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