“…2b-2e). On the other hand, it is known [46,47] that, upon the freezing of single-phase crosslinked gels, the growth of crystals of frozen sol-vent in a mesh of the polymer network of a gel can readily lead to the rupture of weak parts of chains and, hence, to the changes in the gel structure (e.g., such changes caused by cryogenic treatment were revealed in crosslinked polyacrylamide gels by electron microscopy [48]). Upon repeated freezing, the ice is formed first in the cryogel macropores [4]; therefore, the stages of the nucleation of ice and initial growth of its crystals proceed, in this case, in a microenvironment that is not constrained by the presence of polymer network and, in essence, is close to the nucleation and initiation of the growth of crystals of some salts upon their "growth" from supersaturated solutions in the matrix of some low-concentrated gels [44,45].…”