Freeze casting: from low‐dimensional building blocks to aligned porous structures—a review of novel materials, methods, and applications

G Shao, DAH Hanaor, X Shen, A Gurlo - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Hygroscopic salt-embedded composite materials for sorption-based atmospheric water harvesting

H Shan, P Poredoš, Z Chen, X Yang, Z Ye… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Sorption-based atmospheric water harvesting has the potential to address water scarcity by
extracting fresh water from the air. The performance of this technology largely depends on …

Nanomaterial patterning in 3D printing

B Elder, R Neupane, E Tokita, U Ghosh… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The synergistic integration of nanomaterials with 3D printing technologies can enable the
creation of architecture and devices with an unprecedented level of functional integration. In …

An elegant coupling: Freeze-casting and versatile polymer composites

J Yang, W Yang, W Chen, X Tao - Progress in Polymer Science, 2020 - Elsevier
The innovations of materials science and modern technologies are boosting the prosperity
of polymer composites in various emerging multi-disciplinary fields. Cooperating with the …

Intrinsic and extrinsic control of freeze casting

I Nelson, SE Naleway - Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 2019 - Elsevier
Freeze casting is a versatile material fabrication process that is known for its ability to create
porous scaffold structures from effectively any constituent material. One of its advantages is …

Topographic orientation of scaffolds for tissue regeneration: recent advances in biomaterial design and applications

J Chi, M Wang, J Chen, L Hu, Z Chen, LJ Backman… - Biomimetics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Tissue engineering to develop alternatives for the maintenance, restoration, or
enhancement of injured tissues and organs is gaining more and more attention. In tissue …

A new era of integrative ice frozen assembly into multiscale architecturing of energy materials

JS Yeon, N Gupta, P Bhattacharya… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The ice templating assembly has been investigated to construct macroporous channels of
functional nanomaterials with well‐defined homogeneous morphology. Recently, this …

Biofabrication of aligned structures that guide cell orientation and applications in tissue engineering

K Lu, Y Qian, J Gong, Z Zhu, J Yin, L Ma, M Yu… - Bio-Design and …, 2021 - Springer
The organized alignment of cells in various tissues plays a significant role in the
maintenance of specific functions. To induce such an alignment, ideal scaffolds should …

Dual-Aligned carbon nanofiber scaffolds as heat conduction path to enhance thermal conductivity of polymer composites

C Zhan, W Cui, L Li, X Quan, Y Zhang, F Xiao - Composites Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
To improve the thermal conductivity of thermal interface materials (TIM), we constructed a
dual-aligned scaffold, ie, both aligned carbon nanofiber (CNFs) in the microscopic structures …

A review of multifunctional nacre-mimetic materials based on bidirectional freeze casting

W Gao, M Wang, H Bai - Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical …, 2020 - Elsevier
Nacre has achieved an excellent combination of strength and toughness through its unique
brick-and-mortar structure of layered aragonite platelets bonded with biopolymers …