Crystal engineering of pharmaceutical cocrystals in the discovery and development of improved drugs

G Bolla, B Sarma, AK Nangia - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
The subject of crystal engineering started in the 1970s with the study of topochemical
reactions in the solid state. A broad chemical definition of crystal engineering was published …

[HTML][HTML] 4D printing: Fundamentals, materials, applications and challenges

A Ahmed, S Arya, V Gupta, H Furukawa, A Khosla - Polymer, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract 4D printing refers to single-material or multi-material printing of a device or object
that can be transformed from a 1D strand into pre-programed 3D shape, from a 2D surface …

Pharmaceutical cocrystals, salts and multicomponent systems; intermolecular interactions and property based design

DJ Berry, JW Steed - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
As small molecule drugs become harder to develop and less cost effective for patient use,
efficient strategies for their property improvement become increasingly important to global …

[HTML][HTML] Co-amorphous drug formulations in numbers: Recent advances in co-amorphous drug formulations with focus on co-formability, molar ratio, preparation …

J Liu, H Grohganz, K Löbmann, T Rades, NJ Hempel - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Co-amorphous drug delivery systems (CAMS) are characterized by the combination of two
or more (initially crystalline) low molecular weight components that form a homogeneous …

[HTML][HTML] Overview of extensively employed polymeric carriers in solid dispersion technology

AR Nair, YD Lakshman, VSK Anand, KSN Sree… - AAPS …, 2020 - Springer
Solid dispersion is the preferred technology to prepare efficacious forms of BCS class-II/IV
APIs. To prepare solid dispersions, there exist a wide variety of polymeric carriers with …

Crystal engineering: an outlook for the future

AK Nangia, GR Desiraju - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Crystal Engineering has traditionally dealt with molecular crystals. It is the understanding of
intermolecular interactions in the context of crystal packing and in the utilization of such …

[HTML][HTML] Co-amorphous solid dispersions for solubility and absorption improvement of drugs: Composition, preparation, characterization and formulations for oral …

A Karagianni, K Kachrimanis, I Nikolakakis - Pharmaceutics, 2018 - mdpi.com
The amorphous solid state offers an improved apparent solubility and dissolution rate.
However, due to thermodynamic instability and recrystallization tendencies during …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering cocrystals of poorly water-soluble drugs to enhance dissolution in aqueous medium

I Sathisaran, SV Dalvi - Pharmaceutics, 2018 - mdpi.com
Biopharmaceutics Classification System (BCS) Class II and IV drugs suffer from poor
aqueous solubility and hence low bioavailability. Most of these drugs are hydrophobic and …

[HTML][HTML] Recent developments in the crystallization process: toward the pharmaceutical industry

Z Gao, S Rohani, J Gong, J Wang - Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
Crystallization is one of the oldest separation and purification unit operations, and has
recently contributed to significant improvements in producing higher-value products with …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in coamorphous drug delivery systems

Q Shi, SM Moinuddin, T Cai - Acta pharmaceutica sinica B, 2019 - Elsevier
In recent years, the coamorphous drug delivery system has been established as a promising
formulation approach for delivering poorly water-soluble drugs. The coamorphous solid is a …