The incorporation of graphene-related materials as nanofiller can produce multifunctional foams with enhanced specific properties and density reduction. Herein we report on the preparation of microcellular thermoplastic polyurethane/graphene foams by batch foaming. Solution blending was first adopted to disperse graphene nanoplatelets (GNP) in the elastomeric matrix. Then, a foaming process based on the use of supercritical CO2 was adopted to produce the microcellular TPU/GNP composite foams with graphene content up to 1 wt%. The EMI shielding behaviour of the TPU/GNP foams has been assessed in the THz range, and has revealed their potential in comparison with other graphene-filled foams presented in the literature, that exhibit similar specific shielding effectiveness but at much higher content of graphene-related materials (10-30 wt%).
@article{arxiv.2108.10003,
title = {Thermoplastic polyurethane-graphene nanoplatelets microcellular foams for electromagnetic interference shielding},
author = {Maria Giovanna Pastore Carbone and Maxime Beaugendre and Can Koral and Anastasios C. Manikas and Nikolaos Koutroumanis and Gian Paolo Papari and Antonello Andreone and Ernesto Di Maio and Costas Galiotis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.10003},
year = {2021}
}