3DOM applications

Macroporous materials with various shapes such as particles, tubes, rods, fibers, membranes, and 3DOM have been designed to cater for different applications. Three... 

Because macroporous materials have 3D periodicity on a length scale comparable to the wavelength of visible light, 3DOM materials have potential use as photonic crystals. Other potential applications include catalysts, bioglasses, sensors, and substrates for surface-enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy (SERS). ... 

Lai, C.-Z., Joyer, M.M., Fierke, M.A., Petkovich, N.D., Stein, A., and Buhlmann, P. 2009. Subnanomolar detection limit application of ion-selective electrodes with three-dimensionally ordered macroiporous (3DOM) carbon solid contacts. Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry 13, 123-128. 

Perovskite mixed metal oxide ABO3 exhibits many interesting and intriguing properties from both the theoretical and the application point of view described in other chapters in this book. Recently, much attention has been paid to the preparation of 3DOM perovskite mixed metal oxides in order to enhance their performances. At present, most attention has been paid to the enhancement of catalytic activities of perovskite mixed metal oxides [9]. 

Because of the attractive physicochemical properties and potential applications in catalysis, biotechnology, adsorption, and separation, fabrication of hierarchically porous (macro/mesoporous) materials, especially for the three-dimensional ordered macro/ mesoporous (3DOM) materials, has been a focus in the research on materials science and engineering in recent years [99,199,200], By using close-packed arrays of monodisperse spheres, such as polystyrene (PS), poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), and silica as template, metals [201,202], metal oxides [203-208], metal chalcogenides [209], silica [204,210,211], carbon [212,213], polymers [214,215], and hydroxyapatite [216] with 3DOM structures have been generated. 

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