Porosity can be viewed as a profound concept that helps us to understand nature and create
advanced structures. There are some interesting examples in nature, such as hollow …

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This article reviews the approaches developed to prepare and characterize porous
structured materials by using the breath figures (BF) methodology. In particular, we have …

The breath figure method, which is used to form porous films from water droplet templates,
has attracted considerable interest because it is simple and applicable to a wide variety of …

Self-assembly is now being intensively studied in chemistry, physics, biology, and materials
engineering and has become an important “bottom-up” approach to create intriguing …

Honeycomb films with various building units, showing potential applications in biological,
medical, physicochemical, photoelectric, and many other areas, could be prepared by the …

The synthesis of polystyrene-block-poly (N, N-dimethylacrylamide)(PS-b-PDMA) via RAFT
polymerization was investigated in detail. Two different RAFT agents–benzyl dithiobenzoate …

This report describes the fabrication and electroless plating of regular porous and
pincushion-like polymer structures prepared by self-organization. Honeycomb-patterned …

Creatures in nature possess almost perfect structures and properties, and exhibit
harmonization and unification between structure and function. Biomimetics, mimicking …

A novel route to obtain highly ordered self-assembled honeycomb films has been
investigated by a bottom-up process. A polymer with one chain end ionic functionality has …