“…Similarly to the hydrogels, these aerogels are versatile biomaterials which were recently introduced into the field of drug delivery research Veronovski, Novak, & Knez, 2012). The oral (Garcia-Gonzalez, Jin, Gerth, Alvarez-Lorenzo, Mehling, Smirnova, Guenther, & Neubert, 2009) and mucosal (Goncalves et al, 2016) delivery applications of various active pharmaceutical ingredients, including fat-soluble vitamins (Pantic, Knez, & Novak, 2016) have been investigated. Layered (Veronovski, Knez, & Novak, 2013) and core-shell (Ulker & Erkey, 2014) formulations have also been developed aiming to fine-tune the release kinetics.…”