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Sol-Gel made materials are porous
before consolidation or curing and they can be used as such
for a variety of applications. Thermal and acoustical
isolation, holographic supports, sensors etc.
Modeling
structural characteristics and predicting the porous material
properties is what the Tony Roberts personal web site is
about. A well illustrated site with porous model
structures ( alloys, polymeric blends, foams, microemulsions etc..) and properties prediction tools.
The site is structured in three main categories:
Microstructure and Morphology
Which includes models of random distributions of spheres,
identical overlapping
spheres, and identical overlapping hollow spheres
Macroscopic Properties of Composites
Among them Variational
Bounds, Computational Methods,
Electrical Conductivity,
Thermal Diffusivity,
Permeabilty of Porous Media
(Fluid Flow) and Elastic Moduli (Mechanical Properties)
and
Examples of porous and composite media
Such as Alloys,
Porous rocks,
Aerogels,
Polymer
blends, Foams and Foamed Solids
The site provides also a list of related links , and a
extended bibliography with abstracts. A number of publications
are available in HTML,
postscript and PDF formats.
Tony Roberts is currently Australian Research Council post-doctoral fellow at the
Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis of
University of Queensland
Queensland 4072, Australia. It can be contacted at : anthony.roberts@mailbox.uq.edu.au
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