Bioinspired engineering of honeycomb structure–Using nature to inspire human innovation

Q Zhang, X Yang, P Li, G Huang, S Feng… - Progress in Materials …, 2015 - Elsevier
Honeycomb structures, inspired from bee honeycombs, had found widespread applications
in various fields, including architecture, transportation, mechanical engineering, chemical …

Design and preparation of porous polymers

D Wu, F Xu, B Sun, R Fu, H He… - Chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
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 …

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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Honeycomb-like porous gel polymer electrolyte membrane for lithium ion batteries with enhanced safety

J Zhang, B Sun, X Huang, S Chen, G Wang - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
Lithium ion batteries have shown great potential in applications as power sources for electric
vehicles and large-scale energy storage. However, the direct uses of flammable organic …

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 …

[КНИГА][B] Semiconducting polymers: chemistry, physics and engineering

G Hadziioannou, GG Malliaras - 2006 - books.google.com
The field of semiconducting polymers has attracted many researchers from a diversity of
disciplines. Printed circuitry, flexible electronics and displays are already migrating from …

[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 …

How droplets nucleate and grow on liquids and liquid impregnated surfaces

S Anand, K Rykaczewski, SB Subramanyam… - Soft matter, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Condensation on liquids has been studied extensively in context of breath figure templating,
materials synthesis and enhancing heat transfer using liquid impregnated surfaces …