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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2003
Frank Wiese, Wuppertal, DE;
Hartmut Stenzel, Obernburg, DE;
Quan Huang, Obernburg, DE;
Bernd Seibig, Geesthacht, DE;
Dieter Paul, Kleinmachnow, DE;
Frank Wiese, Wuppertal, DE;
Hartmut Stenzel, Obernburg, DE;
Quan Huang, Obernburg, DE;
Bernd Seibig, Geesthacht, DE;
Dieter Paul, Kleinmachnow, DE;
Membrana GmbH, Wuppertal, DE;
Abstract
Method for producing foamed microporous polymer molded bodies by melting a thermoplastic polymer in a first zone of an extrusion device, mixing in a highly volatile blowing agent, conveying the polymer melt containing the blowing agent into a second zone in which dissolution of the blowing agent occurs to saturation of the polymer melt at the foaming temperature, and molding and foaming of the loaded polymer melt to a foamed structure, whereby, in the second zone, a pressure above 90 bar, a blowing agent concentration above the critical minimum concentration for complete foaming, and the foaming temperature, lying above the solidification temperature of the polymer melt saturated with blowing agent, are set such that the polymer molded body obtained has a porosity in the range between 40 and 90 vol. % and an open-cell pore structure with uniform cross-sectional distribution. Foamed microporous polymer molded bodies in the form of particles comprising a thermoplastic polymer with uniform open-cell pore structure, a porosity of 40 to 90 vol. %, an accessible proportion of pore volume of at least 0.75 and an average cell size between 1 and 100 μm.