Schafer Corporation: Materials: Polystyrene Foam Materials

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Materials Polystyrene Foam Materials

Foam	Density Range	Cell Size	Dopants	Chemical Composition	Production Issues
HIPE Polystyrene	15-700 mg/cm³	1-10 microns	Halogens Deuterated Physical Dispersions	CH	Molded or machined to shape Vacuum dried

47 mg/cc polystyrene foam cylinders Lightweight polystyrene foams have various applications. Schafer makes these foams by emulsion polymerization with a density range of 15-700 mg/cc and pore size of 1-10 microns. The foam can be machined or molded into various shapes. Schafer routinely fabricates cylinders, spheres, hemisphere shells, annuli etc. for inertial confinement fusion targets using molds or precision machining. These foams can also be doped with halogens, physical dispersions or embedded objects, as needed.

Precision machining of a 4.5mm diameter, 45mg/cc polystyrene foam sphere

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