该文章系统总结了自1912年发现Breath Figure现象，直至近年来以此方法制备有序多孔聚合物膜及其应用的相关文献逾550篇。 李磊教授自2007年回国成立课题组以来，一直致力于多孔材料新型制备方法学研究及应用，独立发展和完善了静态Breath Figure制备方法

Cleanup of oil spills is a worldwide challenge to prevent serious environmental pollution. A new kind of poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) oil absorbent with high absorption capacity and excellent reusability was prepared and used for oil/water separation. The preparation process of PDMS oil absorbents involves direct curing of a PDMS prepolymer in a p-xylene solution in the presence of commercial sugar particles, which is simple and economic. PDMS oil absorbents have interconnected pores and a swellable skeleton, combining the advantages of porous materials and gels. Absorption capacities of PDMS oil absorbents are 4-34 g/g for various oils and organic solvents, which are 3 times that reported previously. Owing to their hydrophobicity and oleophilicity, the as-obtained PDMS oil absorbents can selectively collect oils or organic solvents from water. The absorption process can be finished within tens of seconds. Furthermore, the absorbed oils or organic solvents can be recovered by compressing the oil absorbents, and after 20 absorbing/recovering cycles, PDMS oil absorbents show little loss of their absorption capacities and own weights.

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The breath figure process was implemented in an atmosphere of methanol and ethanol vapors, producing porous polymer films with different features.

Polymeric microsieves with uniform and tunable pores were fabricated with the breath-figure method and sequent vulcanization procedure using commercially available block copolymer polystyrene-b-polyisoprene-b-polystyrene. Uniform pore size and small film thickness endow the microsieves with high size selectivity and low operation pressure, while the crosslinked chemical structure gives them good mechanical properties and excellent chemical and thermal stability. These microsieves are able to separate particles in various media, including corrosive solvents, hot water, and organic solvents. The process reported in this communication is a simple and inexpensive method for the preparation of high-performance microsieves.