Pulmonary drug delivery has gained great interest as an important subject of research over
the past decades given the lung diseases which are affecting millions of people suffer from …

With rapid advances in micro-fabrication processes and the availability of biologically-
relevant lung cells, the development of lung-on-chip platforms is offering novel avenues for …

To respond to the ongoing pandemic of SARS-CoV-2, this contribution deals with recently
highlighted COVID-19 transmission through respiratory droplets in form of aerosols. Unlike …

Purpose In the present work, a comparison between MDI and DPI for evaluating
performance of the devices were carried out by experimentally investigating the deposition …

The determination of the particle dynamics in the human acinar airways having millions of
alveoli is critical in preventing potential health problems and delivering therapeutic particles …

Determining the behavior of aerosol drug particles is of vital importance in the treatment of
respiratory tract diseases. Despite the development of imaging techniques in the pulmonary …

Motivated by a desire to uncover new opportunities for designing the size and shape of fiber-
shaped aerosols towards improved pulmonary drug delivery deposition outcomes, we …

Particles longer than 5 μm and with a length/diameter ratio> 3 are defined as fibers.
Asbestos or other fibers are still identified in residential environments due to the emission …

Non-spherical particles, and fibers in particular, are potentially attractive airborne carriers for
pulmonary drug delivery. Not only do they exhibit a high surface-to-volume ratio relative to …

Humans are constantly exposed to airborne pollutants such as pollen, exhaust residues,
microplastics, fabrics, aerosols, or, as recently, ash particles from volcanic eruptions, which …