3D Printing of Pharmaceuticals

3D printing is forecast to revolutionise the pharmaceutical sector, changing the face of medicine development, manufacture and use. Potential applications range from pre-clinical drug development and dosage form design through to the fabrication of functionalised implants and regenerative medicine....

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Basit, Abdul W. (Editor), Gaisford, Simon (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
Series:AAPS advances in the pharmaceutical sciences series ; 31.
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Online Access:Full text (Wentworth users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Paradigm of personalised medicines
  • Pharmaceutical ink-jet printing
  • Fused-deposition modelling (FDM) 3D printing
  • Stereolithographic (SLA) 3D printing
  • Selective laser sintering (SLS) 3D printing
  • Flexographic 3D printing
  • Semi-solid extrusion 3D printing
  • Ink-jet printing for personalised dosing
  • Printing crystal forms
  • Printing of nanoparticle/polymer conjugates
  • 3D Printing organ vasculature
  • 3D printed ears
  • Visualisation of 3D printed compartmental DDSs
  • 3D printed medicines - A regulatory perspective
  • Spritam – a case study
  • 4D printing
  • 3DP – costs and manufacturing issues
  • Other non-pharmaceutical 3DP areas.