《A Parametric Study on Selective Ultrasonic Foaming of Porous Polymer for Biomedical Applications》.pdf

Proceedings of the 2007 International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference MSEC2007 October 15-17, 2007, Atlanta, Georgia, USA MSEC2007-31184 A PARAMETRIC STUDY ON SELECTIVE ULTRASONIC FOAMING OF POROUS POLYMER FOR BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS Hai Wang and Wei Li Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-2600 Porous polymers have been produced using many techniques ABSTRACT such as fiber bonding [9], solvent casting [9, 10], phase A selective ultrasonic foaming (SUF) process was developed to separation [11, 12], and gas foaming combined with particulate fabricate porous polymer for biomedical applications. The leaching [13, 14]. All these methods were developed to produce method employs a high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) microstructures on a single length scale. Not much control is transducer to selectively heat and implode gas-impregnated available for creating pores on multiple length scales in the polymers. This acoustic method is solvent-free and capable of