摘要 |
An environmentally friendly, commercially practicable process for the production of microcellular polymer foams from amorphous, semi-crystalline and crystalline polymers that comprises consolidating the polymer into a polymer shape, saturating the polymer shape with an inert gas at elevated temperature, above the Tg of the polymer, and under elevated pressure, releasing the pressure and cooling, i.e. quenching, the saturated polymer shape under controlled temperature and pressure conditions to produce either a closed or open celled, low to medium density microcellular foam or a closed cell, high density microcellular foam.
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