Advanced Materials, Vol.28, No.45, 9993-9999, 2016
3D Printing of Emulsions and Foams into Hierarchical Porous Ceramics
Bulk hierarchical porous ceramics with unprecedented strength-to-weight ratio and tunable pore sizes across three different length scales are printed by direct ink writing. Such an extrusion-based process relies on the formulation of inks in the form of particle-stabilized emulsions and foams that are sufficiently stable to resist coalescence during printing.