Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

Printing of small molecular medicines from the vapor phase

  • Olga Shalev,
  • Shreya Raghavan,
  • J. Maxwell Mazzara,
  • Nancy Senabulya,
  • Patrick D. Sinko,
  • Elyse Fleck,
  • Christopher Rockwell,
  • Nicholas Simopoulos,
  • Christina M. Jones,
  • Anna Schwendeman,
  • Geeta Mehta,
  • Roy Clarke,
  • Gregory E. Amidon,
  • Max Shtein

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00763-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Traditional approaches used in the pharmaceutical industry are not precise or versatile enough for customized medicine formulation and manufacture. Here the authors produce a method to form coatings, with accurate dosages, as well as a means of closely controlling dissolution kinetics.