The nondestructive preparation of bicontinuous nanoporous metal membranes by replication of bicontinuous nanoporous polymeric membranes consisting of recoverable asymmetric block copolymers (BCPs) is reported. Bicontinous nanoporous BCP membranes were generated by swelling the minority domains of the BCP with selective solvents accompanied by reconstruction of the glassy matrix formed by the majority component and subsequent evaporation of the swelling agent.
