Design, preparation, and application of ordered porous polymer materials

•Breath figures involve polymer casting under moist ambience.•Hard template employs monodisperse colloidal spheres as a template.•Soft template utilizes the etched block in copolymers as template.

Ordered porous polymer (OPP) materials have extensively application prospects in the field of separation and purification, biomembrane, solid supports for sensors catalysts, scaffolds for tissue engineering, photonic band gap materials owing to ordered pore arrays, uniform and tunable pore size, high specific surface area, great adsorption capacity, and light weight. The present paper reviewed the preparation techniques of OPP materials like breath figures, hard template, and soft template. Finally, the applications of OPP materials in the field of separation, sensors, and biomedicine are introduced, respectively.