Freeze casting, also known as ice templating, is a particularly versatile technique that has
been applied extensively for the fabrication of well‐controlled biomimetic porous materials …

Herein, the potential of directional freeze‐casting techniques as a very generic, green, and
straightforward approach for the processing of various functional porous materials is …

Ice templating–or freeze casting–has flourished in multiple domains as a straightforward
process to shape solutions and particle suspensions into macroporous materials. Longtime …

Nature is very successful in designing strong and tough, lightweight materials. Examples
include seashells, bone, teeth, fish scales, wood, bamboo, silk, and many others. A …

Conspectus Biological porous materials, such as polar bear hair, wood, bamboo, and
cuttlebone, exhibit outstanding thermal and mechanical properties due to their hierarchical …

Porous scaffolds are widely used in biomedical applications where pore size and
morphology influence a range of biological processes, including mass transfer of solutes …

The ice templating assembly has been investigated to construct macroporous channels of
functional nanomaterials with well‐defined homogeneous morphology. Recently, this …

Natural materials, such as bone and abalone nacre, exhibit exceptional mechanical
properties, a product of their intricate microstructural organization. Freeze casting is a …

Nacre has achieved an excellent combination of strength and toughness through its unique
brick-and-mortar structure of layered aragonite platelets bonded with biopolymers …

Freeze-casting produces materials with complex, three-dimensional pore structures which
may be tuned during the solidification process. The range of potential applications of freeze …