“…Porous metals have important technological potential since they offer a unique combination of high conductivity, high surface area, and light weight properties into one material system. They have a wide range of potential applications including thermal management, energy absorption, catalysis, sensing, or filtration at high temperatures, energy generation, and/or storage, lightweight optics, vibration/sound absorption, etc. Despite the significant need for these materials, at present, there are only limited methods to obtain them, such as direct assembly from metal nanoparticles, combustion synthesis, electroplating (or electroless‐plating) on fabricated microtemplates, which are complicated and costly in manufacturing, and some of the processes are toxic and involve safety concerns.…”