Needles to Spheres : Evaluation of inkjet printing as a particle shape enhancement tool

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Active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) often reveal shapes challenging to process, e.g. acicular structures, and exhibit reduced bioavailability induced by slow dissolution rate. Leveraging the API particles' surface and bulk properties offers an attractive pathway to circumvent these challenges. Inkjet printing is an attractive processing technique able to tackle these limitations already in initial stages when little material is available, while particle properties are maintained over the entire production scale. Additionally, it is applicable to a wide range of formulations and offers the possibility of co-processing with a variety of excipients to improve the API's bioavailability. This study addresses the optimization of particle shapes for processability enhancement and demonstrates the successful application of inkjet printing to engineer spherical lacosamide particles, which are usually highly acicular. By optimizing the ink formulation, adapting the substrate-liquid interface and tailoring the heat transfer to the particle, spherical particles in the vicinity of 100 µm, with improved flow properties compared to the bulk material, were produced. Furthermore, the particle size was tailored reproducibly by adjusting the deposited ink volume per cycle and the number of printing cycles. Therefore, the present study shows a novel, reliable, scalable and economical strategy to overcome challenging particle morphologies by co-processing an API with suitable excipients.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:184

Enthalten in:

European journal of pharmaceutics and biopharmaceutics : official journal of Arbeitsgemeinschaft fur Pharmazeutische Verfahrenstechnik e.V - 184(2023) vom: 15. März, Seite 92-102

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zettl, Manuel [VerfasserIn]
Winter, Christina [VerfasserIn]
Mantanus, Jérôme [VerfasserIn]
Hadjittofis, Eftychios [VerfasserIn]
Rome, Sandrine [VerfasserIn]
Leitinger, Gerd [VerfasserIn]
Hsiao, Wen-Kai [VerfasserIn]
Roblegg, Eva [VerfasserIn]
Pinto, Joana T [VerfasserIn]
Spoerk, Martin [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Acicular drugs
Excipients
Inkjet printing
Journal Article
Particle Engineering
Particle morphology
Personalized manufacturing

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Date Completed 28.02.2023

Date Revised 28.02.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.ejpb.2023.01.016

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM352174706