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Safety and efficacy assessment of aerogels for biomedical applications
Ferreira-Gonçalves, Tânia; Constantin, Carolina; Neagu, Monica; Reis, Catarina Pinto; Sabri, Firouzeh; Simón-Vázquez, RosanaThe unique physicochemical properties of aerogels have made them an attractive class of materials for biomedical applications such as drug delivery, regenerative medicine, and wound healing. Their low density, high porosity, and ability to regulate the pore structure makes aerogels ideal nano/micro-structures for loading of drugs and active biomolecules. As a result of this, the number of in vitro and in vivo s...
An Opinion Paper on Aerogels for Biomedical and Environmental Applications
García-González, Carlos A; Budtova, Tatiana; Durães, Luisa; Erkey, Can; Del Gaudio, Pasquale; Gurikov, Pavel; Koebel, Matthias; Liebner, FalkAerogels are a special class of nanostructured materials with very high porosity and tunable physicochemical properties. Although a few types of aerogels have already reached the market in construction materials, textiles and aerospace engineering, the full potential of aerogels is still to be assessed for other technology sectors. Based on current efforts to address the material supply chain by a circular econ...