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Materials “alchemy”: Shape-preserving chemical transformation of micro-to-macroscopic 3-D structures

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The scalable fabrication of nano-structured materials with complex morphologies and tailorable chemistries remains a significant challenge. One strategy for such synthesis consists of the generation of a solid structure with a desired morphology (a “preform”), followed by reactive conversion of the preform into a new chemistry. Several gas/solid and liquid/solid reaction processes that are capable of such chemical conversion into new micro-to-nano-structured materials, while preserving the macroscopic-to-microscopic preform morphologies, are described in this overview. Such shape-preserving chemical transformation of one material into another could be considered a modern type of materials “alchemy.”

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Sandhage, K.H. Materials “alchemy”: Shape-preserving chemical transformation of micro-to-macroscopic 3-D structures. JOM 62, 32–43 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-010-0085-8

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