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. 2018 Summer;17(3):818–829.

Table 2.

Physical characteristics of used silica aerogels and amount of drug loading on them (data are expressed as mean ± SD, n = 3.)

Sample Final aerogel density
(g/cm 3 )
BET surface area
(m 2 /g)
BET average pore size (nm) Loading efficiency (%)
1 0.033 568.90±26 24.44±1.3 15.6±1.5
2 0.080 856.61±38 16.96±1.2 22.8±0.9
3 0.240 895.40±35 9.53±0.8 23.5±1.1