porous materials
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- It is well known that in porous materials moisture condensation occurs under certain physical conditions as a result of water vapor diffusion.
- Because fluid flow in porous media is opaque to most observational techniques simulations of the processes occurring in porous media have become important.
- Evaporation from porous media is a key process in the hydrologic cycles, waste isolation, biological and food processes and other engineering application.
- Heat transfer phenomena play a vital role in many problems which deals with transport of flow through a porous medium.
- A major cause of seismic attenuation in fluid-saturated rocks is the flow of the pore fluid induced by the passing wave.
- Porous materials present many important characteristics for the field of acoustics like thermal insulation, acoustic absorption, impact insulation and lightweight.
- Conventional scaffold fabrication techniques result in narrow pore architectures causing a limited interconnectivity and use of porogens, which affects the bio- or cyto-compatibility.
- Despite being porous, natural materials such as bone, nacre and tooth enamel possess interesting combinations of stiffness, strength and toughness, an outstanding performance which is hard to achieve in engineering materials.
- Research on microporous materials, hollow solids with channels and cavities that include small guest molecules, has advanced in fundamental and applied aspects during 1999-2000.
- Lightweight mechanically-resilient three-dimensional (3D) porous materials with a low thermal conductivity and high flame retardancy are urgently desired for the fast-growing thermal-insulated-packaging industry.