Macroporous ceramics by colloidal templating. nasa astrophysics data system (ads) subramaniam, g.; pine, david j. 2000-04-01. we describe a novel method of fabricating macroporous ceramics employing colloidal dispersion of ultrafine ceramic particles with latex particles as the templates. the colloidal particles form a particulate gel on drying and fill the voids of the ordered latex templates..