Wood tissues with ordered cellular structurecan be mineralized using the simple surfactant-templated sol-gel process presented here. Hierarchical porous ceramic materials that are a faithful reproduction of the biological tissue and that also contain organized nanoporous channels are obtained. The Figure shows a mineralized poplar sample after calcination (see also inside front cover).
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Shin et al. (2001) studied this question.