There are many applications in technology and lab work for this process to create desired morphologies of polymers. One of these applications is inscribing secondary nanostructures onto electrospun fibers. The use of poly(ε‐caprolactone) fibers, known as PCL, allows using solvents like acetone to move the amorphous chains of block polymers onto a pre-existing crystal, making the inscribed secondary structure. When the PCL is annealed with acetone, the amorphous chains can be mobilized to a given desired region, while the overall integrity of the fully crystallized regions stays intact. With a careful approach to the semi-crystalline polymer chosen and looking for appropriate solvent vapor, this simple process can be applied to many different systems and allows for the creation of many types of hierarchical polymer material.
Another application of SVA is its use in helping create and improve photovoltaic device efficiency through the annealing of perovskite materials. For the greater performance of these energy cells, the keys lie with higher quality perovskite materials and on the use of SVA to create these higher quality films that can retain energy more efficiently.  Solvent engineering is the key to make the perovskite material and improving their quality through SVA in an anhydrous isopropanol environment, where the crystalline polymer has low solubility, which causes the performance to increase greatly. The use of SVA here leads to a more energy-efficient and promising path of using specific polymers to help move forward with the improvement of energy storage.