3D Printing of Pharmaceuticals

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Basit, Abdul W. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Gaisford, Simon (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: AAPS Advances in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Series, 31
• Subjects: Pharmaceutical technology.; Biomedical engineering.; Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology.; Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology.

3D printing is forecast to revolutionise the pharmaceutical sector, changing the face of medicine development, manufacture and use. Potential applications range from pre-clinical drug development and dosage form design through to the fabrication of functionalised implants and regenerative medicine....

Table of Contents:

• Paradigm of personalised medicines
• Pharmaceutical ink-jet printing
• Fused-deposition modelling (FDM) 3D printing
• Stereolithographic (SLA) 3D printing
• Selective laser sintering (SLS) 3D printing
• Flexographic 3D printing
• Semi-solid extrusion 3D printing
• Ink-jet printing for personalised dosing
• Printing crystal forms
• Printing of nanoparticle/polymer conjugates
• 3D Printing organ vasculature
• 3D printed ears
• Visualisation of 3D printed compartmental DDSs
• 3D printed medicines - A regulatory perspective
• Spritam - a case study
• 4D printing
• 3DP - costs and manufacturing issues
• Other non-pharmaceutical 3DP areas.