On July 26, the Third International Polymer Foaming and Porous Materials Forum was held in Xi’an, and Prof. Fang Yu presented a report titled Soft Template-based Porous Polystyrene.

Fang Yu shared his group’s research findings, industrialization and future trend in lightweight high-strength cross-linked polystyrene foam, its preparation technology of gel emulsion template, fluorescence sensor and detection devices.

Sponsored by the Polymer Foaming and Porous Materials Special Committee of China Mainland Region of The Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering, the forum aims to follow the rapid transformation in new materials and share the latest development in the research, preparation and industrial application of polymer foaming and porous materials.

In recent years, polymer foaming and porous materials have found extensive applications in high-end fields such as smart sensors, bio-medicine, environment and energy, aviation and aerospace, marine vessels, national defense and military industry. The high-quality innovative research, development and application of advanced polymer foaming and porous materials have become a frontier and hot research area in the research and engineering of polymer and its composite materials.