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CONCLUSION This study has integrated two well established approaches of emulsion templating in order to produce a hydrophobic membrane which can store hydrophilic materials and release them in a controlled fashion. The first of these approaches utilizes stable emulsions and forfeits the dispersed droplet phase after gelating or polymerizing the continuous phase to set it. This approach produces porous monoliths where the removed droplets leave pores behind. Second approach sets the internal droplets by surrounding them with a shell of solid particles or a cross linked polymer and maintains functional individual capsules by purging the continuous phase. Here, neither the continuous nor the dispersed phase is forfeited. Instead, they were strongly stabilized to compose aqueous delivery capsules embedded in a hydrophobic polymer monolith membrane. The droplets were functionalized by loading with aqueous KCOOH as a representative anti-icing agent. The emulsion was stabilized by solid particle stabilization method, utilizing surface modified partially hydrophobic silica nanoparticles. Surface morphology, surface hydrophobicity and water absorption capacity are proven to be interdependent. Hydrophobicity, water absorption behavior can be monitored through gelling the internal phase droplets, varying internal phase volume fraction and varying particle concentration. The wet emulsions truly serve as templates for the resultant dry membranes since dry forms mimic the wet emulsion in terms of both morphology and water affinity. Withholding both the continuous and the dispersed phase, gelling the droplets and embedding functional capsules in a monolith of an opposing chemistry are offered as novelties for the existing particle stabilized emulsion template systems. Apart from being utilized as surface coating membrane, the designed functionally loaded material is promising to find future applications such as monolith scaffolds in tissue engineering, platforms for drug delivery from a surface, tool for food processing or coating for delivery of functional anti-icing materials. This encapsulation method is not only applicable to store aqueous KCOOH but it can be extended to any water soluble material. Finally, the template emulsion can be designed to serve both as a dry membrane and a viscous stable multiphase system to be integrated into other hydrophobic mediums that would otherwise be incompatible with the delivery material. In order to manipulate the affinity towards various other mediums, other polymers hydrophobic polymers than SBS can be favored. Future work includes rheological characterization of dry material, investigation of the rate of material delivery through the embedded capsules and possible manipulations over it and incorporation of the viscous emulsion to other hydrophobic mediums. Thus, the presented design