D. Danninger, F. Hartmann, W. Paschinger, R. Pruckner, R. Schwödiauer, S. Demchyshyn, A. Bismarck, S. Bauer, M. Kaltenbrunner, "Soft Robots: Stretchable Polymerized High Internal Phase Emulsion Separators for High Performance Soft Batteries" Advanced Energy Materials 10 (2020) 2070084

 

M. Jalalian, Q. Jiang, A. Bismarck
March 8, 2019Volume 1, Issue 3Pages 298-592

 

Materials engineering does not have to be more than cooking. Epoxy foams have been successfully produced by whipping air into a resin formulation. Air was frothed into liquid epoxy resin containing silica particles producing stable liquid froths. The curing of the froths resulted in foamed epoxy composites, whose pore morphology was templated by air bubbles. The epoxy foams possessed a hierarchical pore structure and high stiffness. More importantly, thanks to the liquid nature of the epoxy froths, they can be moulded and cured into any desired shape. As shown on the cover art, the epoxy froths were piped out and cured into a meringue cookie shape

 

 




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Milo S.P. Shaffer, Alexander Bismarck et al.
Mater.Horiz., 2018, 5, 668

 

 

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Oh, B.H.L., Bismarck, A., Chan-Park M.B., " Modified Chitosan Emulsifiers: Small Compositional Changes Produce Vastly Different High Internal Phase Emulsion Types" J. Mater. Chem. B 3 (2015) 4118




Oh, B.H.L., Bismarck, A., Chan-Park M.B., "Injectable, Interconnected, High-Porosity Macroporous Biocompatible Gelatin Scaffolds made by Surfactant-Free Emulsion Templating" Macromol. Rapid Commun. 36 (2015) 341




Montrikittiphant, T., Tang, M., Lee, K.-Y., Williams, C.K., Bismarck, A., "Bacterial Cellulose Nanopaper as Reinforcement for Polylactide Composites: Renewable Thermoplastic NanoPaPreg" Macromol. Rapid Commun. 35 (2014) 1639




Lee, K.Y., Buldum, G., Mantalaris, A., Bismarck, A., "More than meets the eye in bacterial cellulose: Biosynthesis, bioprocessing and applications in advanced fiber composites" Macromol. Biosci. 14 (2013) 1




Shengzhong Zhou, Alexander Bismarck and Joachim H. G. Steinke, "Ion-responsive alginate based macroporous injectable hydrogel scaffolds prepared by emulsion templating", J. Mater. Chem. B 1 (2013) 4736




Bismarck, A., Burgstaller, C., Lee, K.-Y., Madsen, B., Mussig, J., Santulli, C., Scarponi, C., "Recent Progress in Natural Fibre Composites: Selected Papers from the 3rd International Conference on Innovative Natural Fibre Composites for Industrial Applications, Ecocomp 2011 and BEPS 2011", J. Biobased Mater. Bioenergy 6 (2013) 343




Koon-Yang Lee, Ling L. Ching Wong, Jonny J. Blaker, John M. Hodgkinson and Alexander Bismarck, "Bio-based macroporous polymer nanocomposites made by mechanical frothing of acrylated epoxidised soybean oil" Green Chem., 13 (2011) 3117




"Storage solutions - energy-storing structural composites", in Materials World, 8th May 2011




Jonny J Blaker, Koon-Yang Lee and Alexander Bismarck, "Hierarchical Composites Made Entirely from Renewable Resources" J. Biobased Mater. & Bioenergy, 5 (2011) 1




Hui Qian, Emile S. Greenhalgh, Milo S. P. Shaffer and Alexander Bismarck, "Carbon nanotube-based hierarchical composites: a review" J. Mater. Chem., 20 (2010) 4751




Yuan-Min Lin, Wojciech Chrzanowski, Jonathan Knowles, Anne Bishop, Alexander Bismarck, "Functionalized Poly(D,L-lactide) for Pulmonary Epithelial Cell Culture" Adv. Biomater. 12 (2010) B101




Inside Front Cover
R. Murakami and A. Bismarck "Particle-Stabilized Materials: Particle-Stabilized Materials: Dry Oils and (Polymerized) Non-Aqueous Foams" Adv. Funct. Mater. 20 (2010) 732




Michael Q. Tran, Milo S. P. Shaffer, Alexander Bismarck "Manufacturing Carbon Nanotube/PVDF Nanocomposite Powders" Macromolecular Materials and Engineering 293 (2008) 188




Gavin Jell, Raquel Verdejo, Laleh Safinia, Milo S. P. Shaffer, Molly M. Stevens and Alexander Bismarck, "Carbon nanotube-enhanced polyurethane scaffolds fabricated by thermally induced phase separation" J. Mater. Chem., 18 (2008) 1865