Question

Difference betweeb soft template and/hard template

Answer 1

The advantage of hard template is to have a better control of the product, but it's difficult to remove the template and usually the remover is environmental-unfriendly. The soft template is relative easier to eliminate, however, the morphology control of your target products is hard to obtain.

To my knowledge, hard template has a solid structure like PS and silica, while soft templates don't have a firm structure like surfactant,some polymer and virus, etc.

Soft template are easy to remove than hard template. Hard template removal mey destroy your materials structure.

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