Additive Manufacturing Approaches to Produce Drug Delivery Systems, 3rd Edition
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 (10 March 2024) | Viewed by 2289
Special Issue Editors
Interests: additive manufacturing; antimicrobial materials; biomaterials; chromatography; drug delivery systems; gene therapy; tissue engineering
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Interests: additive manufacturing; biomimetics and bioinspiration; computer-aided engineering; computer-aided manufacturing; multi-material 3D/4D structures; industrial/biomedical applications; tissue engineering; mould design and polymer injection moulding; circular economy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, additive manufacturing approaches have provided innovative and cutting-edge technologies that have significantly improved different fields. One of the applications of these methodologies is in the production of enhanced drug delivery systems. In this regard, using these technologies enables the full manipulation of several drug delivery production parameters that are not able to be changed/combined when conventional approaches are used. Among these parameters are the porosity, layer and piece dimensions (from nanometres to the desirable measurements), interconnectivity and mono- or multi-material production. Currently, the structures produced through additive manufacturing include scaffolds used on hard tissue regeneration, wound dressings made from fibres that can perfectly mimic the soft tissue, and nanometric structures that can be used for transdermal medication. All of these kinds of structures could be filled with drugs and biochemical markers, leading to a quick and successful therapeutic process.
Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Medicines (oral, rectal and vaginal);
- Intravenous and transdermal approaches;
- Scaffolds and wound dressings;
- Additive manufacturing technologies for drug delivery systems;
- Drug delivery mathematical models.
Dr. Joana Valente
Prof. Dr. Nuno Alves
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- additive manufacturing
- drug delivery systems
- scaffolds
- wound dressings
- intravenous and transdermal approaches
- biomaterials
- drug delivery mathematical models
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