OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Cellular Plastics is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Progress in the development of bead foams – A review	39
Overview and comparison of modelling methods for foams	21
Morphological, thermal and mechanical properties of recycled HDPE foams via rotational molding	19
Enhancement of the mechanical and acoustical properties of flexible polyurethane foam/waste seashell composites for industrial applications	18
Effect of extrudate swell on extrusion foam of polyethylene terephthalate	18
Emerging trends in flame retardancy of rigid polyurethane foam and its composites: A review	17
The effect of organofluorine additives on the morphology, thermal conductivity and mechanical properties of rigid polyurethane and polyisocyanurate foams	15
Eco-friendly composites of polyurethane and sheath palm residues	13
Calculating diffusion coefficients from molecular dynamics simulations for foam extrusion modelling of polypropylene with CO₂, N₂ and ethanol	13
Polyolefinic nanocomposite foams: Review of microstructure-property relationships, applications, and processing considerations	12
A machine learning approach to estimate the strain energy absorption in expanded polystyrene foams	11
Low density rigid polyurethane foam incorporated with renewable polyol as sustainable thermal insulation material	11
Synergetic effect of crystal nucleating agent and melt self-enhancement of isotactic polypropylene on its rheological and microcellular foaming properties	9
High performance biobased pour-in-place rigid polyurethane foams from facile prepared castor oil-based polyol: Good compatibility with pentane series blowing agent	9
Gelatin-based cellular solids: Fabrication, structure and properties	8
Experimental and numerical study of the polyurethane foaming process using high-pressure CO₂	8
Evaluating the gas-laden ability of polymer melt under atmospheric conditions using a modified torque rheometer	7
Glass transition of PLA-CO₂ mixtures after solid-state saturation	7
Melamine-formaldehyde rigid foams – Manufacturing and their thermal insulation properties	7
Cellular Bi₂O₃/natural rubber composites for light-weight and lead-free gamma-shielding materials and their properties under gamma irradiation	7
Directing the pore size of rigid polyurethane foam via controlled air entrainment	6
Extensional rheology and CO₂ foaming of thermoplastics vulcanizates: Influence of the crosslinking chemistry	5
Application of computed tomography data–based modelling technique for polymeric low density foams, Part A: Model development	5
Solid-state foaming of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene through microcellular 3D printing process	5
Analysis of density-dependent bead and cell structure of expanded polypropylene bead foams from X-ray computed tomography of different resolution	5

Cryogenic thermal insulating and mechanical properties of rigid polyurethane foams blown with hydrofluoroolefin: Effect of perfluoroalkane	5
Predicting mechanical performance of starch-based foam materials	5
3D printed geometrically tessellated sheets with origami-inspired patterns	4
In situ synthesis of CO₂ adducts of modified polyethylenimines in polyether polyols for polyurethane foaming	4
Effect of carbon allotropes on foam formation, cure characteristics, mechanical and thermal properties of NRF/carbon composites	4
Autoclave foaming and steam-chest molding of polypropylene/polybutene-1 blend bead foams and their crystallization and mechanical properties	4
Effect of tris(1-chloro-2-propyl)phosphate in combination with aluminum hypophosphite and melamine polyphosphate on flame retardancy and thermal decomposition of rigid polyurethane foams	4
Exfoliated two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide reinforced epoxy syntactic foams	4
Colour of polyurethane foams filled with wood and wood derivatives exposed to two xylophagous fungi	3
Characteristics of pre-strained polyisocyanurate foam: Deformation recovery and compressive mechanical behavior at cryogenic temperature	3
Application of computed tomography data–based modelling technique for polymeric low density foams, Part B: Characterization of the mechanical behaviour	3
Modeling hysteresis in expanded polystyrene foams under compressive loads using feed-forward neural networks	3
Investigation of the relation between free volume and physico-mechanical performance in rigid polyurethane foam containing turkey feather fibers: Part 2	3
Preparing low-Density microcellular polystyrene foam by in-Situ fibrillated PTFE and supramolecular nucleator TMC-300 in the presence of sc-CO₂	3
Foaming behavior of the fluorinated ethylene propylene copolymer assisted with supercritical carbon dioxide	3
Green rigid polyurethane foam from hydroxyl liquid natural rubbers as macro-hydroxyl polyols	3
Morphological and mechanical properties of foamed thick-walled Wood-Plastic-Composite structures	3
Statistical characterization of microcellular polyurethane foams microstructure based on 2D and 3D image analysis	3
Quasi-static indentation damage mechanics of PU foam core reinforced with fly ash particulate	2
Polystyrene carbon composite foam with enhanced insulation and fire retardancy for a sustainable future: Critical review	2
Mechanical characterization of lattice structure produced by additive manufacturing under torsion and compression	2
Developing an adaptive FE model to reflect the effective mechanical properties in porous elastomeric materials	2
Solid-state foaming of poly(ether-ether-ketone)/hydroxyapatite composites	2
Effect of microcrystalline cellulose on the preparation and performance of rigid polyurethane foam	2
Microcellular foams production from nanocomposites based on PS using MOF nanoparticles with enhanced CO₂ properties as nucleating agent	2
Investigation of the mechanical properties triple periodic minimal surfaces lattice structures with functional graded of porosity	2