Foam Metal/ Metal Foam from READE

foam metal, metal foam, porous metal, cellular solids, cellular metal, closed cell porosity, cellular metallic material, sintered porous structures, syntactic foam

Reade Advanced Materials offers:

Foam Metals

Foam Metal Key Words:

Foam metal, metal foam, porous metal, cellular solids, cellular metal, closed cell porosity, cellular metallic material, sintered porous structures, syntactic foam

Metal Foams Available from READE

Aluminum

Carbon

Copper

Graphite

Hafnium Over Carbon foam

Lead

Nickel

Nickel- chromium alloy

Niobium Over Carbon Foam

Rhenium Over Carbon Foam

Stainless steel

Tantalum Over Carbon Foam

Tin

Titanium

Tungsten Over Carbon Foam

Zinc

Zirconium Over Carbon Foam

Foam Metal Popular Manufacturing Techniques:

Several techniques are used to produce engineering (structural) foams. With the exception of syntactic foams and self-foamed materials such as foam glass, these materials are produced using a foamed polymer as the starting material.

From these economical precursors, three processing routes have been established for the production of ceramic and metallic foams. Ceramic foams can be produced by dipping the polymer foam in a slurry containing an appropriate binder and ceramic phases, followed by pressure less sintering at elevated temperatures.

A second process used to make metallic foams utilizes an electroless process for the deposition of a metal onto the polymer foam precursor via electrolytic deposition.

A third process begins with the pyrolysis of the thermosetting polymer foam to obtain a carbonaceous foam skeleton. These carbonaceous foam materials are themselves attractive for many aerospace and industrial applications, including thermal insulation, impact absorption, catalyst support, and metal and gas filtration. They are thermally stable, low in weight and density, and are chemically pure; they have low thermal expansion, resist thermal stress and shock, and are relatively inexpensive.

Closed-cell foam structures look very similar to a cellulose kitchen sponge; each cell is separated from another cell by thin walls of metal. Open-cell foam structures look very similar to a loofah sponge; the "holes" vary in size depending on the desired application.

Foam Metal Typical Applications:

Energy absorption, filtration, sound suppression, magnetic shielding, vibration damping, stiff lightweight panels, thermal insulation barriers, medical implants, storage media, fuel cells, and heat exchangers

Foam Metal Packaging:

Usually to a customers specification

Foam Metal TSCA (SARA Title III) Status:

Unknown. For further information please call the E.P.A. at 1.202.554.1404

Contact READE

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This page was last updated on 3 March 2006

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