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Preparation of Carbon Fiber and Bamboo Fiber Reinforced Poly (butylene Adipate-co-terephthalate) Foams by Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Foaming
Published on: October 10, 2025
Aqueous foam stabilized by plate-like particles in the presence of sodium butyrate
Qian Liu1, Lingyu Luan, Dejun Sun
1Key Laboratory for Colloid and Interface Chemistry of the Education Ministry, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250100, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
The addition of salt promotes the adsorption of layered double hydroxide (LDH) particles onto the air-water interface, but stable foams cannot be prepared from LDH dispersions at all the concentration of NaCl or sodium acetate. We generated stable foams using positively charged plate-like LDH particles in the presence of sodium butyrate. The effects of adding sodium butyrate to LDH on the particle zeta potential, adsorption behavior and the adsorption of modified particles at the air-water interface were studied. At a fixed LDH particle concentration, adding of a trace amount of sodium butyrate maximizes flocculation of the aqueous particle dispersion. Foams prepared under this condition of particle dispersion are most stable to coalescence and halt completely disproportionation. Also, the size of the bubbles is the smallest. The bubbles are stable when drying at 80 degrees C with little change in size. Laser-induced fluorescent confocal micrographs and scanning electron microscopy observations clearly confirm the adsorption of LDH particles on the foam surfaces, and the bubbles are armored by an interfacial particle multilayer.
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