Low density, microcellular, dopable, agar/gelatin foams for pulsed power experiments

Technical Report · Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1997

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/461291· OSTI ID:461291

McNamara, W F ^[1]; Aubert, J H ^[2]

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1. Orion International Technologies, Inc., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
2. Sandia National Lab., Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Low-density, microcellular foams prepared from the natural polymers agar and gelatin have been developed for pulsed-power physics experiments. Numerous experiments were supported with foams having densities at or below 10 mg/cm{sup 3}. For some of the experiments, the agar/gelatin foam was uniformly doped with metallic elements using soluble salts. Depending on the method of preparation, cell sizes were typically below 10 microns and for one process were below 1.0 micron.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 461291
• Report Number(s): SAND-97-0689; ON: DE97005182; TRN: 97:002610
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: Apr 1997
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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