RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Cyclic gas dissolution foaming as an approach for simultaneously reducing cell size and relative density in nanocellular PMMA A1 Martín de León, Judit A1 Bernardo García, Victoria A1 Rodríguez Pérez, Miguel Ángel K1 Plastic foams K1 Gas K1 Polymers K1 Polímeros y polimerización K1 Gas dissolution foaming K1 Polimetilmetacrilato (PMMA) K1 Advanced cellular material K1 3312 Tecnología de Materiales AB A new approach to produce nanocellular polymers combining small cell sizes with low relative densities is presented herein. This production method, based on gas dissolution foaming, consists of performing a double saturation and foaming cycle. Thus, nanocellular polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) has been produced through a first saturation at different saturation conditions (6, 10, and 20 MPa and −32 °C), at constant foaming conditions (60 °C for 1 min). Then, the nanocellular PMMAs obtained from the previous step were again saturated at different saturation conditions, 10 MPa 24 °C, 31 MPa 24 °C, 35 MPa 22 °C, and 6 MPa −15 °C and foamed at different temperatures (40, 80 and 100 °C) for 1 min. This new approach allows the cells created in the first saturation and foaming cycle to further grow in the second cycle. This fact permits producing nanocellular polymethylmethacrylate sheets combining, for the first time in the literature, cell sizes of 24 nm with relative densities of 0.3. PB MDPI SN 2073-4360 YR 2021 FD 2021 LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/59482 UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/59482 LA eng NO Polymers, 2021, Vol. 13, Nº. 14, 2383 NO Producción Científica DS UVaDOC RD 12-jul-2024