Recent Advances in 3D Printing of Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Pharmacy and Formulation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 1229
Special Issue Editors
Interests: HPLC; LC-MS; UV-VIS spectroscopy; drug formulation development and optimisation; biorelevant dissolution; 3D printing; drug permeability enhancement research (GIT, blood-brain and placental barrier)
Interests: emulsions; surfactants; polymers; rheology
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Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite contributions to this Special Issue titled “Recent Advances in 3D Printing of Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms”, which seeks original research articles and review papers. Three-dimensional printing has brought significant changes in the development of pharmaceutical dosage forms, offering new opportunities and challenges. This Special Issue aims to highlight the application of 3D printing in pharmacy, exploring both its potential and limitations. We welcome papers focusing on the functionality of conventional and novel pharmaceutical excipients in the 3D printing of medicines, the influence of 3D printing process parameters on the quality and biological effects of the resulting drug products, as well as research on related technologies such as hot melt extrusion. Additionally, contributions exploring other potential applications of 3D printing in pharmacy, beyond drug printing, are of great interest. This includes research on the printing of new devices or components for the manufacturing, production, and characterization of pharmaceutical dosage forms.
Prof. Dr. Mladena Lalic-Popovic
Prof. Dr. Veljko Krstonošić
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- drug delivery
- 3D printing
- additive manufacturing
- personalized medicine
- pharmaceutical excipients
- polymers
- biopolymers
- hot melt extrusion (HME)
- fused deposition modeling (FDM)
- selective laser sintering (SLS)
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