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Phenolic foams (PF) belong to the polymeric materials, which are very attractive from the point of many possible applications such as insulation or fire protection materials. This chapter attempts to explain the influence of graphene and graphene derivatives on the phenolic foams. This work briefly presents different graphene nanoparticles introduced to the phenolic foams matrix, in terms of impact on the thermal, mechanical, and cell structure (morphological) behavior. In particular, the characterization of the morphology of polymer systems reinforced with graphene derivatives has received considerable attention. Due to the correlation resulting from the influence of structure on the macroscopic properties of this group of materials. This study also focuses on the presentation of various (experimental) methods enabling the introduction of graphene nanoparticles into the phenolic matrix. The presented chapter summarizes the work carried out on the modification of phenolic foams with the graphene derivatives, which seem to be a promising nanomodifiers of these materials in connection with obtaining completely new valuable properties.

Authors

• dr hab. inż. Michał Strankowski link open in new tab