“…The drying of quiescent gels has been extensively investigated using different materials (gellan gum (Bonifacio, et al, 2017;Cassanelli, et al, 2018), starch (De Marco & Reverchon, 2017;Franco, et al, 2018), cellulose (Jin, et al, 2004;Long, et al, 2018), agarose (Mao, et al, 2017), silica (Smirnova, et al, 2003), chitosan (Cardea, et al, 2010), etc.) and techniques (airdrying, freeze-drying, supercritical carbon dioxide drying, microwave drying (Cassanelli, et al, 2019;Hu, et al, 2013)).…”