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Inorganic non-metallic porous materials are necessary for many applications where they must combine a functional property, which is improved by porosity (e.g. bone substitutes, thermal insulators, catalytic supports, filtration devices, fuel cells...), with a structural role, i.e. they must possess sufficient mechanical properties. The latter, however, are strongly affected by porosity ; in addition these materials are by nature very brittle, i.e. they fail in the elastic regime with no deformation.