Volume 9, Issue 4, December 2014, Pages 1878–1886
Shoaib Suleman1, Shahzad Maqsood Khan2, Nafisa Gull3, Waqas Aleem4, Muhammad Shafiq5, and Tahir Jamil6
1 Department of Polymer Engineering & Technology, University of the Punjab, Quaid-e-Azam Campus, Lahore, Pakistan
2 Department of Polymer Engineering & Technology, University of the Punjab, Quaid-e-Azam Campus, Lahore, Pakistan
3 Department of Polymer Engineering & Technology, University of the Punjab, Quaid-e-Azam Campus, Lahore, Pakistan
4 Department of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Perak, Malaysia
5 Department of Polymer Engineering & Technology, University of the Punjab, Quaid-e-Azam Campus, Lahore, Pakistan
6 Department of Polymer Engineering & Technology, University of the Punjab, Quaid-e-Azam Campus, Lahore, Pakistan
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
One of the important applications of polyurethanes is polyurethane foam. Flexible type of polyurethane foam is divided into many types and one of them is visco-elastic foam. Visco-elastic foam is unique foam showing both viscous and elastic behavior at same time. Visco-elastic foam covers major applications of flexible polyurethane foam. Visco-elastic foam samples were synthesized on lab scale by cup foaming. All samples were characterized by finding density of each sample. Cream time, gel time and rise time were also estimated for each sample. The chemical compositions of all polyurethane foam samples were characterized by FTIR analysis.
Author Keywords: Polyurethanes, Visco-elastic Polyurethane foam, Cup Foaming, FTIR.
Shoaib Suleman1, Shahzad Maqsood Khan2, Nafisa Gull3, Waqas Aleem4, Muhammad Shafiq5, and Tahir Jamil6
1 Department of Polymer Engineering & Technology, University of the Punjab, Quaid-e-Azam Campus, Lahore, Pakistan
2 Department of Polymer Engineering & Technology, University of the Punjab, Quaid-e-Azam Campus, Lahore, Pakistan
3 Department of Polymer Engineering & Technology, University of the Punjab, Quaid-e-Azam Campus, Lahore, Pakistan
4 Department of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Perak, Malaysia
5 Department of Polymer Engineering & Technology, University of the Punjab, Quaid-e-Azam Campus, Lahore, Pakistan
6 Department of Polymer Engineering & Technology, University of the Punjab, Quaid-e-Azam Campus, Lahore, Pakistan
Original language: English
Copyright © 2014 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
One of the important applications of polyurethanes is polyurethane foam. Flexible type of polyurethane foam is divided into many types and one of them is visco-elastic foam. Visco-elastic foam is unique foam showing both viscous and elastic behavior at same time. Visco-elastic foam covers major applications of flexible polyurethane foam. Visco-elastic foam samples were synthesized on lab scale by cup foaming. All samples were characterized by finding density of each sample. Cream time, gel time and rise time were also estimated for each sample. The chemical compositions of all polyurethane foam samples were characterized by FTIR analysis.
Author Keywords: Polyurethanes, Visco-elastic Polyurethane foam, Cup Foaming, FTIR.
How to Cite this Article
Shoaib Suleman, Shahzad Maqsood Khan, Nafisa Gull, Waqas Aleem, Muhammad Shafiq, and Tahir Jamil, “Synthesis and Characterization of Visco-Elastic (VE) Polyurethane Foam,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 1878–1886, December 2014.
