by referring to the following discussion in some embodiments of the present invention drawings are provided to illustrate structures that include the porous composite material of the present invention in those drawings the structures are not shown to scale the discussion that follows is broken up into different sections that include various embodiments of the present invention the first section i e embodiment 1 describes porous dielectric materials of the present invention and a method of fabricating the porous dielectric material the second section i e embodiment 2 describes porous semiconducting material and a method of fabricating the same the third section of the present application i e embodiment 3 describes porous catalyst materials and a method of forming the same and the fourth section i e embodiment 4 describes porous ceramic materials and a method of making the same embodiment 1 in this embodiment porous dielectric materials having a dielectric constant of about 3 2 or less preferably about 3 0 or less and even more preferably about 2 7 or less are provided the dielectric material of the present invention is comprised of a first solid phase and a second phase that is a collection of pores the first solid phase of the porous dielectric material of the present invention.