Advanced Foams Production both in Terrestrial and Microgravity Conditions

M. Shoikhedbrod, I. Shoikhedbrod

doi:https://doi.org/10.59232/DSM-V2I3P103

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Volume 2 | Issue 3 | Year 2025 | Article Id: DSM-V2I3P103 DOI: https://doi.org/10.59232/DSM-V2I3P103

Advanced Foams Production both in Terrestrial and Microgravity Conditions

M. Shoikhedbrod, I. Shoikhedbrod

Received	Revised	Accepted	Published
11 Jun 2025	10 Jul 2025	08 Aug 2025	19 Aug 2025

Citation

M. Shoikhedbrod, I. Shoikhedbrod. “Advanced Foams Production both in Terrestrial and Microgravity Conditions.” DS Journal of Multidisciplinary, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 24-32, 2025.

Abstract

Advanced foams are characterized by a uniform distribution of gas filler in the molten foam material. Existing methods for producing foams do not allow for a uniform distribution of gas filler in the molten foam material. The use of such technologies leads to inefficient and unsafe foam production and to a radical change in the properties of the resulting foams for the worse. The article presents a new method for producing advance foams in terrestrial conditions, in which a uniform distribution of gas filler in the molten foam material is achieved using the vibroturbulation process, in which the role of the gas filler is played by hydrogen formed during the electrolysis of water, followed by its transformation due to the vibroturbulation process into microdispersed electrolytic hydrogen bubbles that uniformly saturate the molten foam material. The article also shows the production of advanced foams in microgravity conditions, using the peculiarity of the isotropic property of microgravity, as well as inertial forces that allow the gas filler - microdispersed electrolytic bubbles of hydrogen formed during the process of water electrolysis - to be evenly distributed in the foam.

Keywords

Foam materials processing, Process of vibroturbulization, Uniform saturation of thermoplastic, Hydrogen electrolytic gas bubbles, Electrolysis of water, Microgravity.

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