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 …

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 …

Hierarchical structure formation by crystal growth-front instabilities during ice templating

K Yin, K Ji, LS Littles, R Trivedi… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Directional solidification of aqueous solutions and slurries in a temperature gradient is
widely used to produce cellular materials through a phase separation of solutes or …

Tailored Sugar-Mediated Porous Particle Structures for Improved Dispersion of Drug Nanoparticles in Spray-Freeze-Drying

K Semba, K Kadota, T Kämäräinen, Y Nakayama… - Langmuir, 2024 - ACS Publications
We fabricated porous particles incorporating sugars (mannitol, sucrose, or dextran) and
fenofibrate nanoparticles (FNPs) by using spray-freeze-drying (SFD). The type of sugar …

Ice‐Mediated Reactions and Assemblies in Diverse Domains

D Wang, J Wu, S Wu, X Chen, W Li… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In chemistry, biology, and materials science, ice‐mediated reactions and ice‐template
assembly techniques are garnering increasing attention due to their unique advantages …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of thermosolutal convection on melting dynamics of Nano-enhanced Phase Change Materials (NePCM)

YMF El Hasadi - Journal of Energy Storage, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Nanoparticle-Enhanced Phase Change Materials (NePCM) have garnered
significant attention in engineering literature due to their enhanced thermo-physical …

Colloidal mushy layers

MG Worster, SSL Peppin, JS Wettlaufer - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021 - cambridge.org
We consider the solidification of idealised two-component mixtures comprising a solvent or
suspending fluid and dissolved solute molecules or suspended colloidal particles, each …

Surface phase transitions in ice: from fundamental interactions to applications

JS Wettlaufer - … Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Interfaces divide all phases of matter and yet in most practical settings it is tempting to ignore
their energies and the associated implications. There are many reasons for this, not the least …

Shape variation and flat plateau formation of a frozen nanofluid droplet

C Zhang, S Yin, H Zhang, C Yang - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Droplet freezing is a phenomenon of great interest, not only from a fundamental perspective,
but also due to its significant contributions to various industrial and ecological processes …

The effect of solidification direction with respect to gravity on ice-templated TiO2 microstructures

KL Scotti, LG Kearney, J Burns, M Ocana… - Journal of the European …, 2019 - Elsevier
Unidirectional ice-templating produces materials with aligned, elongated pores via:(i)
directional solidification of particle suspensions wherein suspended particles are rejected …