Breath figure: a nature-inspired preparation method for ordered porous films

A Zhang, H Bai, L Li - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
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Breath figures as a dynamic templating method for polymers and nanomaterials

UHF Bunz - Advanced Materials, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
This review describes the use of breath figures as a templating method for the fabrication of
self‐assembled polymeric‐and nanoparticle‐based micro‐and nanostructures. If moist air is …

Towards hierarchically ordered functional porous polymeric surfaces prepared by the breath figures approach

A Munoz-Bonilla, M Fernández-García… - Progress in Polymer …, 2014 - Elsevier
This article reviews the approaches developed to prepare and characterize porous
structured materials by using the breath figures (BF) methodology. In particular, we have …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in honeycomb-structured porous polymer films prepared via breath figures

P Escalé, L Rubatat, L Billon, M Save - European Polymer Journal, 2012 - Elsevier
Since its introduction in 1994, the preparation of ordered porous polymer films by the breath
figure (BF) method has received a considerable interest. The so-called “honeycomb”(HC) …

Honeycomb structured polymer films via breath figures

M Hernández-Guerrero, MH Stenzel - Polymer Chemistry, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Among various structuring techniques, a water-driven 'templating'method for the fabrication
of highly ordered porous membranes has been widely exploited for the past 17 years due to …

Phase separation induced ordered patterns in thin polymer blend films

L Xue, J Zhang, Y Han - Progress in polymer science, 2012 - Elsevier
Strategies for the utilization of phase separation to generate ordered pattern in polymer thin
film are reviewed. First, the fundamental theory and factors influencing phase separation in …

Breath figure arrays: unconventional fabrications, functionalizations, and applications

H Bai, C Du, A Zhang, L Li - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
A breath figure (BF) is the water droplet array that forms when moisture comes in contact
with a cold substrate. This water droplet array has been widely utilized in the past two …

Multiple interfaces in self-assembled breath figures

LS Wan, LW Zhu, Y Ou, ZK Xu - Chemical Communications, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
This feature article describes the multiple interfaces in the breath figure (BF) method toward
functional honeycomb films with ordered pores. If a drop of polymer solution in a volatile …

Fabrication of honeycomb films by the breath figure technique and their applications

H Yabu - Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Preparation of porous materials with ordered hole structure

MLK Hoa, M Lu, Y Zhang - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2006 - Elsevier
This review paper investigates the synthesis of porous structures with controlled hole pattern
and provides an overall view of the various factors involved when synthesizing such porous …