“…The price is paid in terms of backpressure, which of course needs to be worked out carefully. The macroscopic dimensions of the monoliths, their macropore size, skeleton thickness, and macroporosity can be tuned by the number of tubes in the starting bundle, the tube diameter, wall thickness, and the drawing velocity and pressure regime in the hot zone of the furnace [89,90]. Porous glasses are characterized by the typical surface chemistry of amorphous silica materials [82].…”