What is Ceramic Foam?

Ceramic foam is a skeletal material with a rigid, highly porous and permeable structure; all Duocel foams have controlled density of material per unit volume.

Our most popular ceramic foam is silicon carbide(SiC).  Duocel® SiC foam is produced by vapor depositing silicon carbide on our RVC foam. 

SiC foam, like all of our foam, is open cell, or reticulated foam. This allows for superior liquid flow, low pressure drop and energy absorption for a variety of applications. The matrix of cells and ligaments is completely repeatable, regular, and uniform throughout the entirety of the material.

Most properties of the SiC foam are dictated by the silicon carbide due to its significantly higher volume fraction, its higher elastic modulus and the geometry of the SiC ligaments.