Yannis Drosos

Mr. Yannis Drosos


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Academic Career Length

6Years (2021-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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18 January 2021 in Polymers
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ATArtemis Tsagdi
Artemis Tsagdi
YDYannis Drosos
Yannis Drosos
Despoina GeorgiouDespoina Georgiou
Despoina Georgiou
Stylianos ExarhopoulosStylianos Exarhopoulos
Stylianos Exarhopoulos
GKGeorgios Karasiotas
Georgios Karasiotas
Eleni P. KalogianniEleni P. Kalogianni
Eleni P. Kalogianni
A new approach to the creation of polypropylene (PP) based foaming materials was developed using food grade foaming agents that were coated on the PP pellets. More specifically, sodium bicarbonate and organic acids were used to coat PP pellets using either polyethyleneoxide (PEO) or lipid esters as coating stabilizers. In order to overcome the problem of the thermal decomposition of sodium bicarbonate at temperatures lower than the PP melting temperature, which makes the direct foaming during melt mixing impossible, the proposed methodology was proved quite efficient. Thus, new PP masterbatches were prepared, where the foaming agents were incorporated as coating at PP pellets at contents up to 10%, and initially used in Lab scale injection machines in order to find the best combination of materials that resulted in the production of foamed articles. Subsequently selected material combinations were tested in an industrial scale injection molding machine, where an optimization of the injection parameters was attempted. The outcome of this was the production of PP articles with significantly increased void fraction, up to 14%, decreased thermal conductivity, up to 20%, and various pore sizes as was observed via microscopic examination using SEM and CLSM.