“…One area of interest is the fabrication of nanoscale porous structures, which hold great promise for catalysis, separation, filtration, and others. , Block copolymers, owing to the ability to self-assemble into nanoscale structures, can template the formation of porous structures. Via self-assembly and sometimes coupled with cross-linking, − block copolymers are useful for preparing porous polymers, − including porous engineering polymers. − Many reviews are readily available on this topic. ,,,− Upon integration with inorganic precursors, block copolymers are excellent “soft templates” for fabricating porous inorganic materials, such as metals, metal oxides, metal nitrides, and others. , One notable example is poloxamers, also known as Pluronics, which are nonionic surfactants initially used in biological science for reducing shear stress in cell culture and later applied to templating the synthesis of mesoporous materials in materials science . Conversely, the inorganic hard templates could be reversed to prepare porous polymers and carbons, often termed the “hard-template” approach.…”