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New oil-in-alcohol highly concentrated emulsions wereformulatedand were used as a templates to obtain macroporous poly(furfuryl alcohol)monoliths by a one-step method. The oil-in-alcohol highly concentratedemulsions were prepared by stepwise addition of the oil phase to thesurfactant-alcohol solution and were characterized by optical microscopyand by laser diffraction. The typical structure of highly concentratedemulsions, with close-packed polyhedral droplets, has been observed.Poly(furfuryl alcohol) monoliths were obtained by polymerizing inthe external phase of these emulsions. These materials are mainlymacroporous and retain the size distribution and morphology from thehighly concentrated emulsions. The internal structure of the monolithswas observed by scanning electron microscopy. The images showed aninterconnected network with pore size similar to the droplet sizeof the highly concentrated emulsions used as templates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]