Biopolymers based aerogels: A review on revolutionary solutions for smart therapeutics delivery

HPSA Khalil, EB Yahya, F Jummaat, AS Adnan… - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Biopolymers-based aerogels have gained the attention of many scientists in medical and
pharmaceutical applications. Biopolymers-based aerogels are utilized extensively in the …

Aerogel‐based biomaterials for biomedical applications: From fabrication methods to disease‐targeting applications

S Karamikamkar, EP Yalcintas, R Haghniaz… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aerogel‐based biomaterials are increasingly being considered for biomedical applications
due to their unique properties such as high porosity, hierarchical porous network, and large …

Polysaccharide-based aerogels for thermal insulation and superinsulation: An overview

F Zou, T Budtova - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2021 - Elsevier
To reduce energy losses due to the insufficient thermal insulation is one of the current “hot”
topics. Various commercial porous materials are used with the best conductivity around 0.03 …

Progress in natural compounds/siRNA co-delivery employing nanovehicles for cancer therapy

M Ashrafizadeh, A Zarrabi, K Hushmandi… - ACS combinatorial …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Chemotherapy using natural compounds, such as resveratrol, curcumin, paclitaxel,
docetaxel, etoposide, doxorubicin, and camptothecin, is of importance in cancer therapy …

Polymeric hybrid aerogels and their biomedical applications

Z Liu, Y Ran, J Xi, J Wang - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Aerogels are a class of porous materials that possess extremely high specific surface area,
high pore volume, high porosity, and variable chemical structures. They have been widely …

Agarose, alginate and chitosan nanostructured aerogels for pharmaceutical applications: A short review

M Guastaferro, E Reverchon, L Baldino - Frontiers in Bioengineering …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In this short review, drug delivery systems, formed by polysaccharide-based (ie, agarose,
alginate, and chitosan) aerogels, are analyzed. In particular, the main papers, published in …

Emerging trends in nanotechnology: Aerogel-based materials for biomedical applications

NM Bakhori, Z Ismail, MZ Hassan, R Dolah - Nanomaterials, 2023 - mdpi.com
At present, aerogel is one of the most interesting materials globally. The network of aerogel
consists of pores with nanometer widths, which leads to a variety of functional properties and …

Carboxylic acid decorated silica aerogel nanostructure as drug delivery carrier

A Jabbari-Gargari, J Moghaddas… - Microporous and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Surface functionalization of silica aerogel could pioneer great utilities, including the modified
release of loaded drugs through the specific interaction that emerged. In this work, the effect …

Delivery of natural agents by means of mesoporous silica nanospheres as a promising anticancer strategy

K AbouAitah, W Lojkowski - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Natural prodrugs derived from different natural origins (eg, medicinal plants, microbes,
animals) have a long history in traditional medicine. They exhibit a broad range of …

Biomedical applications of silica-based aerogels: A comprehensive review

FS Jahed, S Hamidi, M Zamani-Kalajahi… - Macromolecular …, 2023 - Springer
Silica-based aerogels are the appropriate and well-known porous materials that have
become interesting in science and technology, especially in the biomedical community …