A new strategy for preparing macroporous materials: using a colloidal gas aphron to create an oriented crystal network

Abstract

We report a simple and generic means of using a static colloidal foam to create a novel porous material, having porosity on the micrometer size scale, that arises from the creation of an oriented crystal network.

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