“…The processing of porous ceramics using preceramic polymers offers many advantages compared to ceramic powders. These include (i) low processing temperatures or low energy consumption for the synthesis compared to high temperatures required for sintering of ceramic powders [13][14][15][16][17], (ii) no additives required for densification [1,4], (iii) a variety of low-cost plastic-forming techniques can be applied with easy control over rheological properties by modified molecular architecture; important plastic-forming techniques include injection molding, extrusion, resin transfer molding, melt spinning [4,9,15], (iv) machining before ceramization can be avoided, thereby reducing tool wear and brittle fracture [1,5,10], (v) easy handling before heat treatment, because preceramic polymers can effectively bind the parts at low temperatures [10], (vi) utilization of unique polymeric properties that cannot be found in ceramic powders, such as appreciable plasticity, in situ gas evolution ability, appreciable CO 2 solubility, and appreciable solubility of preceramic polymers in organic solvents [9,10,18,19], (vii) nanostructures (wires, belts, tubes, etc) can be created directly during the pyrolysis of catalyst-containing preceramic polymers [10,11], and (viii) ceramic products containing unique combination of polymer-like nanostructures with ceramic-like properties (hardness, creep resistance and oxidation resistance) can be obtained [6,9,10]. Hence, several polymers with different substituents were synthesized, blended and used as precursors for fabricating a variety of porous ceramics such as zirconia, alumina, silica, silicon carbide, silicon oxycarbide, mullite, cordierite, etc.…”