Manufacturing techniques include impregnating open-cell polymer foams internally with ceramic slurry and then firing in a kiln, leaving only ceramic material.
Some materials, mostly polymer foams, have a negative Poisson's ratio; if these auxetics are stretched in one direction, they become thicker in perpendicular directions.
Dr. Tsou had considered using many thin foil layers or a polymer foam to catch the particles, but in space, radiation and temperature extremes quickly degrade foams.
They consist of an insulating layer of rigid polymer foam sandwiched between two layers of structural board.
Ferroelectrets also known as piezoelectrets, are thin films of polymer foams, exhibiting piezoelectric and pyroelectric properties after electric charging.
Before the catalysts are introduced into the system, they are either bagged, attached on metal grills or screens, or placed on polymer foams.
It has been developing away on a polymer foam that is intended to fill an entire building 'from floor to ceiling' in a few seconds after an alarm is tripped.
Modern paddles combine polymer foams, high strength metals, graphite, and epoxy resin.
Soft transducers in the form of ferroelectric polymer foams have been proved to of great potential.
Each part was sprayed with polymer foam; they were stacked under the tarpaulin like so many huge, soft eggs.