Pharma Excipients
Inorganic Chemicals
Calcium phosphate microcapsules for paediatric drug delivery
This poster was presented by Galvita at EuPFI 2024 in Rotterdam
Introduction
Modern drug delivery needs to use novel multifunctional materials for developing medicinal products and new therapies. Porous particles attract a lot of attention as promising drug delivery systems. Functions of porous…
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Principles, Applications and Limitations of the Liquisolid System of Drug Delivery: A Review
Abstract
The liquisolid system of drug delivery continues to find usefulness as a potent means to circumvent solubility and dissolution challenges commonly encountered during drug formulation and medicine development in the pharmaceutical industry. Originally invented by Spireas, the technique has…
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Towards the prediction of barrel fill level in twin-screw wet granulation
The barrel fill level is defined as the fraction of the free available volume for a given screw configuration that is occupied by the wet material and is an interplay of the material throughput, screw speed, screw setup, barrel length of the twin-screw granulator used and the properties of the…
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Twin-screw melt granulation with PEG 8000: Effect of binder particle size and processing temperature…
Twin-screw melt granulation (TSMG) is one of the promising green technological approaches for the manufacturing of solid dosage forms of pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals. PEG 8000 is one of the most popular TSMG binders. The effect of different low-melting grades of PEG on the TSMG granules’…
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Dwell Time on Tableting: Dwell Time According to Force versus Geometric Dwell Time
Dwell time is an important parameter responsible for the material deformation and the mechanical and biopharmaceutical properties of the tablet. Thus, it is widely used for scale-up purposes. The geometric dwell time (GDT) can be assumed based on the shape of the punch head and the diameter and…
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Evaluation of Polyvinyl Alcohol as Binder during Continuous Twin Screw Wet Granulation
Binder selection is a crucial step in continuous twin-screw wet granulation (TSWG), as the material experiences a much shorter residence time (2–40 s) in the granulator barrel compared to batch-wise granulation processes. Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) 4-88 was identified as an effective binder during…
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Croscarmellose Sodium as Pelletization Aid in Extrusion-Spheronization
Only few excipients are known to be suitable as pelletization aids. In this study, the potential use of croscarmellose sodium (CCS) as pelletization aid was investigated. Furthermore, the impact of cations on extrusion-spheronization (ES) of CCS was studied and different grades of CCS were tested.…
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Tablet ejection: A systematic comparison between force, static friction, and kinetic friction
The magnitude of the frictional forces during the ejection of porous pharmaceutical tablets plays an important role in determining the occurrence of tabletting defects. Here, we perform a systematic comparison between the maximum ejection force, static friction coefficient, and kinetic friction…
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3D Screen Printing Offers Unprecedented Anticounterfeiting Strategies for Oral Solid Dosage Forms…
Abstract
A threat to human health in developed and, in particular, in developing countries, counterfeit medicines represent the largest identified fraud market worldwide. 3D screen printing (3DSP), an additive manufacturing technology that enables large-scale production, offers unique opportunities…
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Multi-component mixing and demixing model for predictive finite element modelling of pharmaceutical…
A set of numerical methods is described that allows predictive finite element method (FEM) simulations of the compaction of multi-component pharmaceutical powder formulations across the entire range of compositions. An automated parametrisation procedure was used to extract density-dependent…
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