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Light‐Metal Foams—History of Innovation and Technological Challenges
Author(s) -
Banhart John
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
advanced engineering materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.938
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 1527-2648
pISSN - 1438-1656
DOI - 10.1002/adem.201200217
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , materials science , key (lock) , nanotechnology , engineering ethics , forensic engineering , engineering , computer science , artificial intelligence , computer security
The history of metallic foams and the key innovations that have led to the variety of processing methods known today are reviewed. It is evident that the idea of foaming metals is very old and that most of the techniques used today have been proposed already in the 1950s. The most important milestones in the development of foaming technologies and the some of the attempts to commercialize metal foams are reviewed.