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Dr. Isabel Martins De Almeida

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UCIBIO/REQUIMTE, MedTech-Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Technology, Department of Drug Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, Rua Jorge Viterbo Ferreira nº 228, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal
Interests: antioxidants; natural products; sunscreens and anti-aging cosmetics; phototoxicity; photostability and photoprotection; mechanical and sensory characterization of topical formulations; patient centric design of topical products; health literacy in cosmetology
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Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Interests: formulation development; manufacturing science; process monitoring; drug delivery; immediate and modified release dosage forms; 3D printing; regulatory science; multivariate analysis

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Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce this collection entitled “Editorial Board Members' Collection Series: New Techniques for Characterization of Drugs and Drug Products”. This Special Issue will be a collection of papers by researchers invited by the Editorial Board Members. The aim is to provide a venue for networking and communication between Pharmaceuticals and scholars in the field of new techniques for the characterization of drugs and drug products. All papers will be fully open access upon publication after peer review.

Dr. Isabel Martins De Almeida
Dr. Ziyaur Rahman
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X-ray Micro-CT
atomic force microscopy
hyperspectroscopy
NIR Chemical imaging
Raman chemical imaging
on-line monitoring tools
X-ray powder diffraction
single crystal X-ray diffraction
small and wide angle X-ray diffraction
solid-state NMR

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The Effect of Compression Pressure on the First Layer Surface Roughness and Delamination of Metformin and Evogliptin Bilayer and Trilayer Tablets

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Pharmaceuticals 2023, 16(11), 1523; https://doi.org/10.3390/ph16111523 - 26 Oct 2023

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The objectives of this study were to evaluate the delamination of convex-shaped metformin HCl (MF) and evogliptin tartrate (EG) multi-layer tablets depending on the pre-compression and main compression pressures and simultaneously correlate these results with those of a surface roughness analysis. Free-flowing MF and EG (median diameters of 38.3 and 44.7 μm, respectively) granules prepared using the wet granulation method were pre-compressed and subsequently compressed into bilayer and trilayer tablets using a universal testing machine. The compaction force required to break the tablets increased linearly as the main compression pressure increased (30–150 MPa). Conversely, the interfacial strength and compaction breaking force decreased as the pre-compression pressure increased (10–110 MPa). A surface roughness analysis employing a profilometer revealed that the first layer (MF) roughness drastically decreased from 5.89 to 0.51 μm (Ra, arithmetic average of profile height deviations from the mean line) as the pre-compression pressure increased from 10 to 150 MPa in the bilayer tablet. Accordingly, the decrease in the roughness of the first layer reduced the inter-penetration at the interface, as observed via energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS)-equipped scanning electron microscopy, decreasing the interfacial bonding strength and causing delamination of the MF/EG multi-layer tablets. These findings indicate the significance of roughness control in the actual preparation of multi-layer tablets and the usefulness of profilometer- and EDS-based surface analyses for interpreting the delamination of multi-layer tablets. Full article

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Coupling of NIR Spectroscopy and Chemometrics for the Quantification of Dexamethasone in Pharmaceutical Formulations

Alessandra Biancolillo

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Pharmaceuticals 2023, 16(2), 309; https://doi.org/10.3390/ph16020309 - 16 Feb 2023

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Counterfeit or substandard drugs are pharmaceutical formulations in which the active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) have been replaced or ingredients do not comply with the drug leaflet. With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, fraud associated with the preparation of substandard or counterfeit drugs is expected to grow, undermining health systems already weakened by the state of emergency. Analytical chemistry plays a key role in tackling this problem, and in implementing strategies that permit the recognition of uncompliant drugs. In light of this, the present work represents a feasibility study for the development of a NIR-based tool for the quantification of dexamethasone in mixtures of excipients (starch and lactose). Two different regression strategies were tested. The first, based on the coupling of NIR spectra and Partial Least Squares (PLS) provided good results (root mean square error in prediction (RMSEP) of 720 mg/kg), but the most accurate was the second, a strategy exploiting sequential preprocessing through orthogonalization (SPORT), which led (on the external set of mixtures) to an R²_pred of 0.9044, and an RMSEP of 450 mg/kg. Eventually, Variable Importance in Projection (VIP) was applied to interpret the obtained results and determine which spectral regions contribute most to the SPORT model. Full article

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