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ArticlePolymers2024

An Additive Manufacturing MicroFactory: Overcoming Brittle Material Failure and Improving Product Performance through Tablet Micro-Structure Control for an Immediate Release Dose Form.

Elke Prasad, John Robertson, Gavin W Halbert

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Article in Polymers, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Elke PrasadEPSRC Future Manufacturing Research Hub in Continuous Manufacturing and Advanced Crystallisation, University of Strathclyde, Technology and Innovation Centre, 99 George Street, Glasgow G1 1RD, UK.
John RobertsonEPSRC Future Manufacturing Research Hub in Continuous Manufacturing and Advanced Crystallisation, University of Strathclyde, Technology and Innovation Centre, 99 George Street, Glasgow G1 1RD, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2191-1319
Gavin W HalbertEPSRC Future Manufacturing Research Hub in Continuous Manufacturing and Advanced Crystallisation, University of Strathclyde, Technology and Innovation Centre, 99 George Street, Glasgow G1 1RD, UK.

Funding

Cancer Research UK C149/A20496EPSRC EP/P006965/1Higher Education Funding Council for England HH13054Scottish Enterprise High Growth Spinout Programme Covid Response fund PS6215C012
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Additive manufacturing of pharmaceutical formulations offers advanced micro-structure control of oral solid dose (OSD) forms targeting not only customised dosing of an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) but also custom-made drug release profiles. Traditionally, material extrusion 3D printing manufacturing was performed in a two-step manufacturing process via an intermediate feedstock filament. This process was often limited in the material space due to unsuitable (brittle) material properties, which required additional time to develop complex formulations to overcome. The objective of this study was to develop an additive manufacturing MicroFactory process to produce an immediate release (IR) OSD form containing 250 mg of mefenamic acid (MFA) with consistent drug release. In this study, we present a single-step additive manufacturing process employing a novel, filament-free melt extrusion 3D printer, the MicroFactory, to successfully print a previously 'non-printable' brittle Soluplus

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additive manufacturingdissolutionformulationmelt extrusionoral drug deliverysolid dispersionsolid dosage form

Identifiers

PMID39339030
PMCPMC11435212

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