Pharmaceutical Crystal and Process Engineering

Dear Colleagues,

We are delighted to invite you submit an article for a Special Issue of Crystals titled “Pharmaceutical Crystals and Process Engineering”. In focus are understandings and engineering of pharmaceutical crystals with tunable physiochemical properties and crystallization processes from the perspectives of both chemical and crystal engineering.

Crystals are the most used solid-state form in pharmaceuticals. Understanding and engineering pharmaceutical crystals with desirable physiochemical properties are essential aspects of drug development and manufacturing. Over the past decades of intense study, enormous efforts and achievements from the engineering and screening of new polymorphs to the design and development of multicomponent crystals including co-crystals and salts were made for tuning physiochemical properties such as solubility, stability, hygroscopicity, and mechanical properties. The fulfilment of these significant advances in pharmaceutical crystal development is beneficial for advancing our understanding of both crystal engineering and crystallization process engineering.

The goal of this Special Issue on “Pharmaceutical Crystals and Process Engineering” is thus to publish novel findings and engineering developments in pharmaceutical crystals and crystallization processing. This includes the design, screening, and synthesis of polymorphs, co-crystals, salts, and solvates with tunable physiochemical properties, as well as fundamental and engineering issues regarding to crystallization processes (e.g., crystal nucleation, continuous crystallization, modelling and design of crystallizers, mixing and CFD simulation of crystallization process).

The present Special Issue lists some keywords as a guide for submissions, but other contributions dealing with other innovative findings in pharmaceutical science and engineering are also welcome.

Dr. Weiwei Tang
Dr. Jingcai Cheng
Dr. Wei Du
Dr. Wei Gao
Dr. Zhengjie Meng
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Crystals is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2100 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.