Research Progress of Pharmaceutical Coating Technology
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Pharmaceutical Technology, Manufacturing and Devices".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 September 2024 | Viewed by 1324
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pharmaceutical coating; pharmaceutical particles; engineered particles for drug delivery; 3D printing; mucosal drug delivery systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Coating is necessary for most pharmaceutical solid dosage forms, e.g., tablets, pellets, capsules and particles. Its functionalities include enhancing drugs’ physical and chemical properties, achieving taste masking and spatiotemporally modifying drug release behaviors. Currently, liquid spray coating (organic solvent and aqueous systems) is practically utilized in the industry to obtain the coating film with acceptable uniformity. However, the presence of liquid (organic solvent and water) may cause several problems, such as solvent residue and VOC emissions. Additionally, the liquid coating process is not suitable for vulnerable actives and newly developed drug delivery systems such as micro/nanoparticles and implants. In order to fulfill the demand of these actives and delivery systems, many studies have been performed both in designing new dry coating strategies and developing novel coating materials, e.g., cell membranes with expanded functionalities. Therefore, the main aim of this Special Issue is to present current research works focusing on coating techniques for pharmaceutics, particularly dry coating and coating strategies for micro-/nano drug delivery systems. Original research articles and review papers focusing on the coating materials, mathematical simulations, process analysis technology (PAT) and coating facilities will also be welcome.
Dr. Qingliang Yang
Dr. Yan Yang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pharmaceutical coating
- dry coating
- powder coating
- coating materials
- process analysis technology
- solventless coating
- electrostatic coating
- enteric coating
- drug release
- implant coating
