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A novel route to polymeric sub-micron fibers and their use as templates for inorganic structures
Lei Qian1, Elizabeth Willneff, Haifei Zhang
1Department of Chemistry and Centre for Materials Discovery, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
Abstract:
A simple and generic method is described to prepare polymeric sub-micron fibers by freeze drying dilute polymer solutions; these polymeric fibers are then used as templates to fabricate inorganic structures via a sol-gel process or ion crosslinking reaction.

