“…Various matters (silica and metal oxides, monomers-precursors of synthetic polymers) have been used to synthesise aerogels; for the detailed information see Aerogels Handbook, 2011. In addition to low thermal conductivity, aerogels are suggested to be used for oil/water separation (Wang X. et al, 2020;Zou, Peng, Fu, Zhang, & Li, 2015), drug release (Follmann et al, 2020;Lim et al, 2020), energy storage (Lin et al, 2018;Zhou et al, 2018), for adsorption (Maleki, Whitmore, & Hüsing, 2018) and as catalyst supports Zhang et al, 2017). At the beginning of the 21 st century, a new class of aerogels was made: they are based on natural polymers such as polysaccharides and proteins (Zhao, Malfait, Guerrero-Alburquerque, Koebel, & Nyström, 2018;Budtova et al, 2020).…”