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Structure and mechanical properties of gelatin/sepiolite nanocomposite foams
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Frydrych, Martin, Wan, Chaoying, Stengler, Ralph, O'Kelly, Kevin U. and Chen, Biqiong (2011) Structure and mechanical properties of gelatin/sepiolite nanocomposite foams. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 21 (25). pp. 9103-9111. doi:10.1039/c1jm10788g ISSN 0959-9428.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C1JM10788G
Abstract
Biocompatible gelatin foams were found to exhibit significantly improved mechanical properties by the additions of sepiolite nanofibres. Gelatin nanocomposite foams containing various contents of sepiolite were prepared by lyophilization. With the presence of 9.1 wt% sepiolite, the Young's modulus and compressive collapse strength of the gelatin foam with a cell size of 159 μm and a porosity of 98% were increased by 288% and 308%, respectively. Such enhancements were attributable to the strong interactions between hydrophilic gelatin and sepiolite as suggested by the results from Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and differential scanning calorimetry which show substantial shifts in the characteristic absorption peaks and the glass transition temperature, to the reduced cell sizes characterised by scanning electron microscopy, and to the reinforcement effects of sepiolite on the gelatin solid material. The mechanical properties of the low-density closed-cell gelatin/sepiolite nanocomposite foams were well predicted using the Gibson–Ashby model for open cells after normalisation of the Young's modulus of the neat polymer foam.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Engineering > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group) | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Materials Chemistry | ||||
Publisher: | Royal Society of Chemistry | ||||
ISSN: | 0959-9428 | ||||
Official Date: | 2011 | ||||
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Volume: | 21 | ||||
Number: | 25 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 9103-9111 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1039/c1jm10788g | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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