From Plastic to Silicone: The Novelties in Porous Polymer Fabrications

Figure 20

A scheme showing the formation mechanism of ordered porous films via the breath figures templating approach. Reprinted from [53], with permission from Elsevier.

(a) Flow of moist air

(b) Water condensation (nucleation)

(c) Water droplets from close packed array

(d) Array cools and sinks into solution

(e) New generation of water droplets

(f) New close packed array templated by underlying layer

(g) 3D array remains after solvent water evaporates