We present sonogenerated magnesium-hydrogen sponges for effective reactive hard templating. Formation of differently organized nanomaterials is possible by variation of sonochemical parameters and solution composition: Fe2O3 nanorods or composite dendritic Fe2O3/Fe3O4 nanostructures.

A solvent extraction route is proposed to synthesize CaF(2) hollow spheres, which are formed by reversed micelles in a solvent extraction system templating the self-assembly of CaF(2) nanoparticles.

Direct liquid crystal templating from non-ionic polyoxyethylene surfactants has been utilised to produce well-defined birefringent films of nanostructured cadmium telluride films which displayed good optical properties as evidenced by UV/VIS reflectance spectroscopy.

Interconnected macroporous foams were synthesized by templating oil-in-water Pickering high internal phase emulsions solely stabilized by lignin particles. They exhibited excellent adsorption capacity for copper(II) ions in aqueous solutions.

Cavitand is sufficiently predisposed to form nano-scale capsules in the presence of templating straight-chain hydrocarbons; quaternary complexes are formed when two copies of smaller guests are encapsulated, whilst larger guests form ternary entities.

Deep-cavity cavitands were shown to undergo carceplex reactions in which two cavitand tetrols were covalently linked using bromochloromethane; the efficiency of the "dimerization" was closely tied to the templating guest molecule incarcerated within the host.

The environmentally friendly ionic liquid N-(2-hydroxyethyl)ammonium formate works as a reaction medium, reducing and templating agent in the mild microwave synthesis (5 min, 80 degrees C) of a macroporous silver framework from AgNO(3).

Micron thick, well-organized mesoporous TiO(2) films with high porosity and good connectivity were synthesized by templating an amphiphilic graft copolymer for solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells.

Three-dimensionally interconnected, highly porous silica materials with ordering on three different scales, that is, macropores (10-30 μm), interconnecting windows (3-5 μm), and nanoporous walls (∼80 nm), are prepared via a dual-templating approach.

Three-dimensionally ordered arrays of submicron-sized mesoporous titania spheres with high surface area and high crystallinity have been prepared through triblock copolymer templating within the confinement of polymer inverse opals.