Techniques in Pharmaceutical Processing and Drug Delivery

Dear Colleagues,

Over the course of the 20th century, formulations for drug delivery began to slowly move from traditional multicomponent microtechnology-based systems to multicomponent nanotechnology-based systems. Now, in the 21st century, multicomponent nanotechnology based systems are firmly established as the future of drug delivery within pharmaceutical sciences for a number of reasons including greater control of drug release rates, targeted drug delivery and greater ease at overcoming both physicochemical and physiological barriers to drug absorption compared with traditional systems.

Nanotechnologies offer potentially huge benefits to society, the environment and health; since they can help us improve our quality of life and have better diagnosis and treatment of disease. Nanocarriers for drug delivery have been an active area of research, and formulation is a cross-discipline activity requiring multiple skills to ensure that the required product performance is achieved by the judicious combination and control of active ingredient, excipients and manufacturing process.

This Special Issue will address new developments in the area of nanotechnology for drug delivery, covering recent advantages and future directions on nano-based systems.

Preference will be awarded to papers that demonstrate contributions from scientists that provide interdisciplinary approaches to understanding pharmaceutical processing and drug delivery. Original research papers and review articles are welcomed.

Dr. Dimitrios A. Lamprou
Prof. Dennis Douroumis
Guest Editors

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