“…[1][2][3][4][5] A replication process typically involves the three main steps of: preparing a porous preform, filling the pores with foam material, and removing space-holders (usually by dissolution). [2,6,7] Independent control of pore size, pore shape, and relative density, [1,2,4,6,[8][9][10][11][12] possibility of producing foams with pores of a few microns in size, [9,10,[13][14][15][16][17] opportunity of creating nearly fault free and uniform structures critical for repeatable mechanical tests, [6,8,10,[16][17][18] being applicable to various metals and alloys, [2,5,14,17,19] and simplicity of producing functionally graded structures, [20,21] are some of the benefits, which make replication a unique technique in the field of cellular solids.…”