Enhancing mechanical performance of polystyrene carbon composite foams through supercritical CO

Apurv Gaidhani, Stephan Edwards, Lauren Tribe, Paul Charpentier

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Article in Journal of thermoplastic composite materials, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Apurv GaidhaniDepartment of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.

Stephan EdwardsDepartment of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.

Lauren TribeDepartment of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.

Paul CharpentierDepartment of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9506-5576

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Conventional polystyrene (PS) foams are widely used in packaging and insulation, but suffer from limited mechanical strength, which restricts their use in load-bearing applications. This study investigates the enhancement of the mechanical performance of PS foam through the incorporation of graphene nanoplatelets (GNP) and flaked graphite (FG), processed via supercritical CO

Indexed as

additive dispersioncompressive strengthflaked graphitegraphene nanoplateletsPolystyrene foamsupercritical CO2

Identifiers

PMID42170213

DOI10.1177/08927057251401189

PMCPMC13189402

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