Porous ceramics mimicking nature—preparation and properties of microstructures with unidirectionally oriented pores

Porous ceramics with unidirectionally oriented pores have been prepared by various methods such as anodic oxidation, templating using wood, unidirectional solidification, extrusion, etc. The templating method directly replicates the porous microstructure of wood to prepare porous ceramics, whereas t...

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Main Author: Kiyoshi Okada, Toshihiro Isobe, Ken-ichi Katsumata, Yoshikazu Kameshima, Akira Nakajima and Kenneth J D MacKenzie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2011-01-01
Series:Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
Online Access:http://iopscience.iop.org/1468-6996/12/6/064701