Application of Supercritical Fluid to Particulate Systems
A special issue of Pharmaceutics (ISSN 1999-4923). This special issue belongs to the section "Pharmaceutical Technology, Manufacturing and Devices".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 7258
Special Issue Editor
Interests: biomaterial; nanotechnology; drug bioavailability; target delivery; drug encapsulation; agrochemical encapsulation
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Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce that I will be the Guest Editor of a Special Issue on “Application of Supercritical Fluid to Particulate Systems” in the Pharmaceutics journal. I invite all scientists around the world to present their research results to a wide audience. Original research articles and comprehensive review articles are very welcome from RD&I in the supercritical fluid area carried out at institutes, universities, and industries.
Supercritical fluid (SCF) technology is mainly used to optimize the production of drug nanonization and particulate systems for drug delivery, bioactive extraction, and chromatography. One of the critical aspects of SCF technology is the assortment of topics associated with it, all of which should be of interest to researchers and industrialists. The flexibility of SCF technology in providing safe alternative processing environments compared to those of long-established operations has enabled innovative solutions to challenging pharmaceutical situations.
Substance manipulation under supercritical conditions, that is, above a substance’s critical temperature and pressure, is attractive for a range of procedures for demanding materials, pharmaceutical operations, and blend formation. This ranges from “green” technology concepts to impressive particle design opportunities for targeted particle size and size distributions, as well as directed chemical, crystallographic, and physical characteristics. A more recent approach toward surface modification, dispersibility, single nanocrystal formation, and morphology control of nanoparticles demonstrates the versatility of SCF technologies for functionalized coverage for specific targeting purposes such as theranostics, biosensors, antigen-presenting cells, tumoral cells, and antigen-presenting cells.
Prof. Dr. Marco Chaud
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- supercritical fluid technology
- nanonization
- nanoparticle
- microparticle
- drug delivery system
- tissue-specific target
- stimuli-triggered drug delivery
- medical devices
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