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Stabilization of the Amorphous Structure of Spray-Dried Drug Nanoparticles

Amstad, Esther  
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Spaepen, Frans
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Weitz, David A.
2016
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B

The bioavailability of hydrophobic drugs strongly increases if they are formulated as amorphous materials because the solubility of the amorphous phase is much higher than that of the crystal. Moreover, the stability of these particles against crystallization during storage increases with decreasing particle size. Hence, it is advantageous to formulate poorly water soluble drugs as amorphous nano particles. The formulation of an amorphous structure is often difficult because many of these drugs have a high propensity to crystallize. This difficulty can be overcome if drugs are spray dried using a microfluidic nebulator we recently developed. However, these nanoparticles agglomerate when they come in contact with each other, and this compromises the stability of their amorphous structure through crystallization. To improve their stability, we coat the nanoparticles with a sterically stabilizing polymer layer; this can be accomplished by co-spraying them with an excipient. However, this excipient must meet strict solubility limits, which severely limit the choice of polymers. Alternatively, the nanoparticles can be sterically stabilized by spraying them directly into a polymeric matrix; this enables a much wider choice of stabiliziting polymers.

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research article
DOI
10.1021/acs.jpcb.6b05417
Web of Science ID

WOS:000382596700040

Author(s)
Amstad, Esther  
Spaepen, Frans
Weitz, David A.
Date Issued

2016

Publisher

Amer Chemical Soc

Published in
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Volume

120

Issue

34

Start page

9161

End page

9165

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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SMAL  
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October 18, 2016
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/130256
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