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Abstract
Pharmaceutical compounds with poor solubility are loaded within mesoporous materials to understand the effect of mesoscale confinement on their dissolution behavior. Structural and calorimetric characterization is combined with atomic pair distribution function analysis probing the interactions between the silica surface and the loaded amorphous compound. While different degrees of amorphism are not identifiable from X-ray diffraction data or calorimetric techniques, the atomic pair distribution function analysis can help identify local ordering of the drug molecules. Together with a list of drug descriptors such as crystallization properties, molecular size, and glass transition temperature, the behavior of encapsulated compounds and their release kinetics may be rationalized. Dissolution experiments confirm that different release rates can be achieved with small differences in mesopore design, such as the presence of micropores in Santa Barbara Amorphous-15 and loading amount.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2216-2224 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences |
Volume | 107 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Aug 2018 |
Keywords
- mesoporous
- solid dosage forms
- pair distribution function
- drug delivery
- solubility
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The Protein Corona: Imaging the nanoparticle biological identity card
Garcia-Bennett, A., MQRES (International), M. & MQRES, M.
1/04/16 → 3/04/20
Project: Research