Polymers for Pharmaceutical Applications
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2020) | Viewed by 25931
Special Issue Editor
Interests: water-soluble polymers; hydrogels; polymer complexes; drug delivery; mucoadhesion; nanomaterials
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Dear Colleagues,
Polymers are widely used in pharmaceutical applications. It is difficult to imagine a modern dosage form which could be prepared completely without the use of polymers. Polymers could play different roles in the design of pharmaceutical dosage forms. They could be used as suspending, emulsifying, binding, and flocculating agents, adhesives, packaging, and coating materials. They could also be used to make gels, nanoparticles, microparticles, and various capsules. Some functional polymers also exhibit intrinsic biological activity, e.g., materials with antimicrobial or anticoagulant properties. Additionally, drugs and other biopharmaceutical agents could be covalently linked to some polymers to modify their properties.
All these potential pharmaceutical applications of polymers will be covered in this Special Issue, which welcomes submission of both reviews and original research articles in this area.
Prof. Vitaliy Khutoryanskiy
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- pharmaceutical polymers
- drug delivery
- polyelectrolytes
- polysaccharides
- gels
- solid dosage forms
- semi-solid dosage forms
- liquid dosage forms
- adhesives
- coatings
- particles
- controlled release
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