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Honeycomb Structured Films Prepared by Breath Figures: Fabrication and Application for Biorecognition Purposes

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A breath figure (BF) is the water droplet array that is formed when moisture comes in contact with a cold substrate, for instance upon breathing. This phenomenon, well known since the beginning of the nineties, started to get a great attention with the work reported by Francois et al. in 1994. They discovered the formation of highly ordered porous films when a drop of polymer solution was cast under a moist airflow. Over the past two decades this method, named BF approach, has been extensively utilized as a versatile templating method for the fabrication of porous polymeric films.

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A M.-B. and JRH acknowledge financial support by the MINECO (Projects MAT2010-17016, MAT2010-21088-C03-01, and COST Action MP0904 SIMUFER). A M.-B. gratefully acknowledges the MINECO for her Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral contract.

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Muñoz-Bonilla, A., Rodríguez-Hernández, J. (2015). Honeycomb Structured Films Prepared by Breath Figures: Fabrication and Application for Biorecognition Purposes. In: Rodríguez-Hernández, J., Cortajarena, A. (eds) Design of Polymeric Platforms for Selective Biorecognition. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17061-9_9

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