Main description:

Novel Formulations and Future Trends, Volume Three in the Recent and Future Trends in Pharmaceutics series, explores aspects of pharmaceutics with an original approach focused on technology, novelties and future trends. It discusses the most important developments in drug delivery, including important and exciting areas such as mucosal, implantable, transdermal, gastroretentive, vaccine and targeted drug delivery systems. The field of pharmaceutics is highly dynamic and rapidly expanding day-by-day so it demands a variety of amplified efforts for designing and developing pharmaceutical processes and formulation strategies. This is an essential reference for researchers in academia and industry as well as advanced graduate students.

New technologies are also explored including 3D printing and computational pharmaceutics.

Contents:

Section I: Novel formulations 1. Controlled release drug delivery systems: Principles and design 2. Microencapsulation: Methodologies and applications 3. Recent developments in mucosal drug delivery system 4. Implantable drug delivery systems: Design and applications 5. Transdermal drug delivery systems: Principles, design and applications 6. Gastroretentive drug delivery approaches for oral bioavailability improvement 7. Targeted drug delivery: Concepts, approaches and applications 8. Recent developments in paediatric and geriatric dosage forms 9. Protein and peptide delivery 10. Vaccine delivery systems for immunization

Section II: Future trends in pharmaceutics 11. Computational Pharmaceutics 12. 3 D printing technology in drug delivery 13. Bio-inspired drug delivery therapeutics 14. Micro-electro-mechanical system-based drug delivery 15. Ultrasound-based drug delivery systems