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Wigen Nazarov, Philip G. McGivern
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 38 | Number 1 | July 2000 | Pages 110-114
Technical Paper | Thirteenth Target Fabrication Specialists’ Meeting | doi.org/10.13182/FST00-A36125
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Acrylate foams have been used extensively in the fabrication of target components for laser experiments. Acrylates are efficient systems especially for photoinitiation processes, however, at very low-density range these foams are not very strong and tend to be fragile. A method for the production of foams produced by free radical co-polymerization of some selected pairs of monomers is described in this paper. Foams produced by the co-polymerization of some pairs of monomers have increased the strength significantly at lower density range. Specifically, the use of 1,1’-(Methylenedi-4,1-phenylene) bis maleimide in the co-polymerization has proved very successful. This study also describes the effect of solvents on foam densities.