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Materials 2009, 2, 1923-1928; doi:10.3390/ma2041923 OPEN ACCESS materials ISSN 1996-1944 /journal/materials Article Porous Ba Ferrite Prepared from Wood Template Nobuyasu Adachi *, Masayuki Kuwahara, Chee Kiong Sia and Toshitaka Ota Ceramics Research Laboratory, Nagoya Institute of Technology/ 10-6-29 Asahigaoka, Tajimi, Gifu 507-0071, Japan; E-Mails: kuwahara@crl.nitech.ac.jp (M.K.); sia@crl.nitech.ac.jp (C.K.S.); ota@nitech.ac.jp (T.O.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: nadachi@nitech.ac.jp (N.A.). Received: 5 November 2009; in revised form: 16 November 2009 / Accepted: 19 November 2009 / Published: 20 November 2009 Abstract: Ba ferrite materials with porous microstructures were prepared from a natural cedar wood template in order to investigate new electromagnetic shielding materials. The wood templates were infiltrated with barium nitrate and iron nitrate solutions (molar ratio = 1:12) and dried to form ferrite gel, then, they were sintered in air at a temperature between 800 °C and 1400 °C. The 1-dimensional porous structures were retained after sintering and the pore size was approximately 10–20 μm. These ferrites show large coercive force and anisotropy field. The largest coercive force was obtained for the specimen sintered at 800 °C. Keywords: porous ceramics; Ba-ferrite; wood template; magnetic anisotropy 1. Introduction Porous ceramics have been attractive materials for various applications such as thermal and sound absorption, filtration, catalysts, etc. Many researchers have been studied their properties due to the porous structure [1]. We had developed a unique preparation technique for porous ceramics where the porous structures of the ceramics were copied from a natural wood template by a bio-casting method [2–4]. Recently, we have been studying magnetic materials with porous structures for high frequency range electro-