Porous Metals and Metallic Foams: Current Status and Recent Developments

Porous metals and metallic foams are presently the focus of very active research and development activities. There are currently around 150 institutions working on metallic foams worldwide, most of them focussing on their manufacture and characterisation. Various companies are developing and produci...

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Published inAdvanced engineering materials Vol. 10; no. 9; pp. 775 - 787
Main Authors Lefebvre, L.-P., Banhart, J., Dunand, D. C.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Weinheim WILEY-VCH Verlag 01.09.2008
WILEY‐VCH Verlag
Wiley-VCH
Subjects
Applications
Applied sciences
Cellular metals
Engineering techniques in metallurgy. Applications. Other aspects
Exact sciences and technology
Metallic foams
Metals. Metallurgy
Cell structure
Industrial application
Metal foam
Mechanical properties
Amorphous alloy
Biomaterial
Review
Porous material
Physical properties
Structural analysis
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Summary:Porous metals and metallic foams are presently the focus of very active research and development activities. There are currently around 150 institutions working on metallic foams worldwide, most of them focussing on their manufacture and characterisation. Various companies are developing and producing these materials which are now being used in numerous industrial applications such as lightweight structures, biomedical implants, filters, electrodes, catalysts, and heat exchangers. This review summarizes recent developments on these materials, with particular emphasis on research presented at the latest International Conference on Porous Metals and Metallic Foams (MetFoam 2007). Porous metals and metallic foams are presently the focus of very active research and development activities. There are currently around 150 institutions working on metallic foams worldwide, most of them focussing on their manufacture and characterisation. Various companies are developing and producing these materials which are now being used in numerous industrial applications such as lightweight structures, biomedical implants, filters, electrodes, catalysts, and heat exchangers. This review summarizes recent developments on these materials, with particular emphasis on research presented at the latest International Conference on Porous Metals and Metallic Foams (MetFoam 2007).
Bibliography:The author would like to thank F. García-Moreno from HMI Berlin, Y. H. Lee from the Chonnam National University, B. Sicotte from Biorthex, R. Goodall from the École Polytechnique de Lausanne, S. Reinhardt from Gleich, V. Paserin from Vale Inco, M. Chen from the Tohoku University and J. Rösler from the Technical University of Braunschweig for providing the pictures used in this review.
HMI Berlin
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Vale Inco
Biorthex
Technical University of Braunschweig
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Chonnam National University
Tohoku University
École Polytechnique de Lausanne
The author would like to thank F. García‐Moreno from HMI Berlin, Y. H. Lee from the Chonnam National University, B. Sicotte from Biorthex, R. Goodall from the École Polytechnique de Lausanne, S. Reinhardt from Gleich, V. Paserin from Vale Inco, M. Chen from the Tohoku University and J. Rösler from the Technical University of Braunschweig for providing the pictures used in this review.
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ISSN:1438-1656
1527-2648
DOI:10.1002/adem.200800241