Asphalt-assisted assembly of breath figures: a robust templating strategy for general fabrication of ordered porous polymer films

Abstract

A robust asphalt-assisted breath figure templating approach has been developed for general fabrication of ordered porous polymer films and functional hybrid films with hierarchical microstructures. The incorporation of desired non-polymeric components, such as titanium dioxide nanoparticles and silver nanowires, shows little influence on the regularity of the pore arrays.