“…Furthermore, it was postulated that the use of combinatory materials for the design of drug release systems has the potential for improving drug bioavailability together with predictable release kinetics. Many efforts have been directed toward the development of biodegradable composite materials for drug delivery and targeted controlled release in terms of reproducible and predictable release kinetics in order to meet the therapeutic demands (Ginebra et al, 2006 ; Habibe et al, 2009 ; Zhang et al, 2017 ; Li J. et al, 2018a , b ; Li S. et al, 2018 ; Zhang W. et al, 2018a , b ; Zhang Y. et al, 2018 ). Previous studies showed that bulk eroding polymeric materials show a drug release pattern ranging from one stage (Schmidt et al, 1995 ; Krasko et al, 2007 ; Billon-Chabaud et al, 2010 ; Morawska-Chochółet al, 2014 ), three stages (Schnieders et al, 2006 ; Xu and Czernuszka, 2008 ; Gosau and Müller, 2010 ) to four stages (Shen et al, 2002 ; Takenaga et al, 2002 ).…”