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ReviewPharmaceutics2025

Advanced Manufacturing Methods for High-Dose Inhalable Powders.

Haia A Al-Assaf, Sofia A Papadimitriou, Ayesha Rahman, Raj Badhan, Afzal R Mohammed

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Review in Pharmaceutics, 2025. 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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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Haia A Al-AssafAston Pharmacy School, College of Health and Life Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK.
Sofia A PapadimitriouNational Training Institute, 38446 Vólos, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-3563-181X
Ayesha RahmanDentistry, School of Health Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B5 7EG, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6971-8825
Raj BadhanAston Pharmacy School, College of Health and Life Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0904-9324
Afzal R MohammedAston Pharmacy School, College of Health and Life Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pulmonary drug delivery is governed by three main categories of forces: interparticle forces in the powder formulation, the dispersion forces during inhalation by the device, and deposition forces in the lungs. The interaction between fine inhalable powder particles of the active ingredient is governed by various types of forces, such as capillary forces, electrostatic forces, and van der Waals forces. The different types of inter-particle interactions influence the balance between powder dispersibility and agglomerate stability. The high level of cohesion forces arising from high surface energy of very fine powder hinders powder flowability, leading to issues of agglomeration. Therefore, there is a critical need for advanced manufacturing techniques to overcome the challenges of handling and manufacture of fine cohesive particles, particularly high-dose powders for inhalation. This review will focus on the challenges facing the formulation process of very fine inhalable powder, the various types of existing particle engineering techniques for high-dose powder inhalers, and the characterization techniques employed to analyse the powder characteristics required to meet the acceptance criteria of inhalable preparations.

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dry powder formulationhigh-dose powdersmanufacturing

Identifiers

PMID40143023
PMCPMC11946774

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