Neutron reflectivity study of phase separation in polymer-drug thin films

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Nearly 40% of new chemical entries are poorly water-soluble. Drug encapsulation into water-soluble polymers is an active research area owing to the ability of improving drug dissolution and absorption.Many processes can be used to produce drug molecular dispersions in polymers; principally fusion via melting and solvent evaporation. No studies have been performed comparing the efficacy of these two methods for the same polymer-drug combination.In our work, felodipine, a calcium channel blocker, and Eudragit E OP and PVP have been used as the model poorly water-soluble drug and carrier polymers, respectively. We propose neutron reflectivity to study the phase separation behaviour of spin-cast polymer-drug thin films,which will give us crucial information about the structure of the films in order to compare with the extruded dispersions,and the optimal processing for drug delivery systems.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24086425
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24086425
Provenance
Creator Dr Sheng Qi; Dr Stephen Roser; Professor Karen Edler; Dr Maxmilian Skoda; Mr Ziyi Yang
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2014
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2011-07-13T08:06:10Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-07-19T08:38:26Z