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Nanostructured resorcinol-formaldehyde ink for 3D direct writing

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We designed a resorcinol-formaldehyde (RF) sol–gel ink for direct ink writing of the microlattices. To improve the formability, the fresh microlattices were strengthened by surface catalysis with HCl atmosphere. After supercritical drying and carbonization, the sample’s specific surface area was 631 m2/g and the average pore size was 3.81 nm. Both RF aerogel and carbonized RF aerogel samples had millimeter-scale pore, micron-scale pore, and nanoscale skeleton. The pore and skeleton could provide high surface area and diffusion channels, which were beneficial to the adsorption performances. The carbonized RF aerogel sample fully adsorbed Dulbecco’s modified eagle medium in 250 min, which exhibited a good capacity of quick adsorption and indicated the potential application for cell supports.

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We thank the financial support from the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFA0204600) and Science and Technology Innovation Fund of Shanghai Aerospace, China (SAST201469). We would like to thank Prof. Lili Qin from Tongji University for her assistance.

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    Yingting Ge, Ting Zhang, Bin Zhou, Hongqiang Wang, Zhihua Zhang, Jun Shen & Ai Du

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Ge, Y., Zhang, T., Zhou, B. et al. Nanostructured resorcinol-formaldehyde ink for 3D direct writing. Journal of Materials Research 33, 2052–2061 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2018.104

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